Julian Holloway

Julian Holloway (born 24 June 1944) is an English actor now based in Hollywood, California, United States. He is the son of the comedy actor and singer Stanley Holloway and former chorus dancer and actress Violet Lane. He is the father of the author and former model, Sophie Dahl.

Life and career

Holloway was born in Watlington, Oxfordshire. In the 1962–63 television season, he was cast in his first major acting role as Quentin in four episodes of the ABC sitcom, Our Man Higgins, the story of an English butler, who works for a suburban American family headed by Frank Maxwell and Audrey Totter.

Holloway became a mainstay of the Carry On films, having appeared in eight films between 1967 and 1976. His other television credits include the Uncle Silas television dramatisations, Elizabeth R, Remember WENN, Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, Beverly Hills, 90210, Minder, The Professionals, The New Avengers, The Sweeney, Z-Cars and as Sergeant Patterson in the Doctor Who story Survival in 1989. His films include Young Winston (1972), Porridge (1979), The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980) and The Rum Diary (2010).

He has developed a reputation as a successful voice actor/vocal artist, mainly in America. In 1991, he performed the part of Captain Zed in Captain Zed and the Zee Zone and as Bradford Milbanks in James Bond Jr.. He also voiced the main antagonist Odlaw in the Where's Waldo? animated TV series. Most notably, he voiced the role of Siegfried Fischbacher in the short-lived CGI series, Father of the Pride (2004) and Walt Disney movie A Christmas Carol (2009). Holloway has also performed as a vocal artist for video games including Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Medal of Honor: European Assault. He also provides the voice for Death in the Cartoon Network animated series Regular Show (2010–present).

Personal life

Holloway is the son of the actor, singer and monologist Stanley Holloway and his wife Violet Lane. In 1976 Julian had a brief relationship with Tessa Dahl, daughter of the American actress Patricia Neal and British children's author Roald Dahl. The relationship produced one daughter, the author and former model Sophie Dahl, who was born the following year.

In the 1980s Holloway married the actress Zena Walker but divorced soon afterwards.^[1] In 1991 he met and married voice over artist and actress Debbie Wheeler. That marriage ended in divorce in 1996.

Holloway is a relative of the English architect and scenic designer Oliver Percy Bernard.^[2]

Partial filmography

Dentist on the Job (1961) as Man on Phone in Factory (uncredited)
A Hard Day's Night (1964) as Adrian, Simon's assistant
Catch Us If You Can (1965) as Assistant Director
The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965) as Guardsman
The Pleasure Girls (1965) as Hanger-on
The Jokers (1967) as Man at Party
Follow That Camel (1967) as Ticket Collector
Carry On Doctor (1968) as Simmons
Hostile Witness (1968) as Percy
Carry On Up the Khyber (1968) as Major Shorthouse
The Last Shot You Hear (1969) as Brash Young Man
Carry On Camping (1969) as Jim Tanner
Scream and Scream Again (1970) as Detective Constable Griffin
The Engagement (1970) as Lord Albert

Carry On Loving (1970) as Adrian
Ryan's Daughter (1970) as Christopher Jones (voice only)
Carry On Henry (1971) as Sir Thomas
Carry On at Your Convenience (1971) as Roger
The Spy's Wife (1972) as Man
Young Winston (1972) as Captain Baker
The Stud (1974) as Spencer
The Hostages (1975) as Man
Carry On England (1976) as Major Butcher
Sammy's Super T-Shirt (1978) as Mr. Trotter
Porridge (1979) as Bainbridge
Rough Cut (1980) as Ronnie Taylor
The Scarlet and the Black (TVM, 1983) as Alfred West
The Rum Diary (2011) as Wolsey

References

↑ "Zena Walker" Obituary. The Telegraph (online edition), 8 September 2003, accessed 1 December 2013.
↑ Holloway and Richards, pp. 74–75

Sources

Holloway, Stanley; Richards, Dick (1967). Wiv a little bit o' luck: The life story of Stanley Holloway. London: Frewin. OCLC 3647363.

External links

Julian Holloway at the Internet Movie Database

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