- Stanley Augustus Holloway was an English actor, comedian, singer and monologist
Born: | 01 October 1890 Comment | When did Stanley Holloway die? / Died | 30 January 1982 | How many years did Stanley Holloway live? / Lived | 91 years | Where was Stanley Holloway born? | Manor Park, London, England, UK | Zodiac sign: | Libra |
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Stanley Holloway facts
- He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P
- Doolittle in My Fair Lady
- He was also renowned for his comic monologues and songs, which he performed and recorded throughout most of his 70-year career
- Born in London, Holloway pursued a career as a clerk in his teen years
- He made early-stage appearances before infantry service in the First World War, after which he had his first major theatre success starring in Kissing Time when the musical transferred to the West End from Broadway
- In 1921, he joined a concert party, The Co-Optimists, and his career began to flourish
- At first, he was employed chiefly as a singer, but his skills as an actor and reciter of comic monologues were soon recognized
- Characters from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ramsbottom, created for him by Marriott Edgar, were absorbed into popular British culture, and Holloway developed a following for the recordings of his many monologues
- By the 1930s, he was in demand to star in variety, pantomime and musical comedy, including several revues
- Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Holloway made short propaganda films on behalf of the British Film Institute and Pathé News and took character parts in a series of war films including Major Barbara, The Way Ahead, This Happy Breed and The Way to the Stars
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