FrameThrower · Actors · Stanley Holloway
Stanley Holloway
2 films · 113 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1945–1945
Born 1 October 1890 · Manor Park, London, England, UK · died 30 January 1982
Stanley Augustus Holloway, OBE was an English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and monologist. 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 recordings of comic monologues and songs, which he performed throughout most of his 70-year career.
Born in London, in his early years Holloway pursued a career as a clerk. He made early stage appearances before infantry service in the First World War. After the war he joined a concert party, "The Co-Optimists", and his career began to flourish.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 113 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1945–1945
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
How their films are shot
Measured across 113 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Stanley takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 66% of their frames are night, 57% low key — the look of the work Stanley takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 113 frames from Stanley Holloway's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.