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Baliol Holloway

1883 – 1967

English stage actor (died 1967)

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Lived 1883 – 1967 (aged 83–84). Baliol Holloway was an actor and stage actor.

Baliol Holloway (born around 1884, died 15 April 1967) was an English Shakespearean actor.

Early life Baliol Holloway was born in Brentwood, Essex. He was educated at Denstone in Staffordshire. He was a pupil of Hermann Vezin.

Career Holloway began his stage career in 1899 as a boy in the production of The Merchant of Venice. In 1907, Holloway joined the Benson Company.

Personal life Holloway married and his wife died in 1959. In 1965, Holloway refused to leave his home of 52 years in Marylebone and halted a construction project. Timon of Athens, as Alcibiades (1920) Henry V, as Pistol (1920) Venice Preserv'd (1920), as Pierre Forerunners (1920), as Wolf Volpone (1921, 1923), as Volpone At Mrs. Beam's (1921), as Mr. Dermott Love for Love (1921), as Scandal Body and Soul (1922), as Procopo The Jew of Malta (1922), as Barabas Twelfth Night (1922–1923), as Orsino The Alchemist (1923), as Subtle The Winter's Tale (1923), as Autolycus Twelfth Night; or, What You Will (1923–1924, 1927), as Malvolio A Midsummer Night's Dream (1923–1924, 1926), Bottom Richard III (1923, 1925, 1927, 1930), as Richard III The Very Idea (1924), as George Green The Country Wife (1924), as Mr. Horner Measure for Measure (1924), as Lucio The Maid's Tragedy (1925), as Melantius Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (1925), as Michael Perez The Merchant of Venice (1925), as Shylock The Taming of the Shrew (1925), as Petruchio Measure for Measure (1925), as Angelo Antony and Cleopatra (1925), as Antony The Merry Wives of Windsor (1925–1926), as Sir John Falstaff She Stoops to Conquer (1926), as Young Marlow Julius Caesar (1926, 1932), as Caius Cassius As You Like It (1926), as Jaques The Shoemaker's Holiday (1926), as Simon Eyre Romeo and Juliet (1926), as Mercutio Much Ado About Nothing (1926), as Benedick King John (1926), as Philip the Bastard The Tempest (1926), as Caliban Macbeth (1926), as Macbeth The Chester Nativity Play: The Play of the Shepherds (1926–1927), as Harvey Christmas Eve (1926–1927), as Dramatist Everyman (1927), as Everyman The Comedy of Errors (1927), as Antipholus of Syracuse The Whirligig of Time - An Up-to-Date Revel (1927), as Macbeth Peace, War and Revolution (1929), as Diogenes Pilgrim's Progress (1948), as Worldly Wiseman Major Barbara, as Long John Silver Othello, as Iago

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1883
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1967
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English stage actor (died 1967)

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Baliol Holloway was born in 1883.

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Baliol Holloway died in 1967.

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Baliol Holloway was an actor and stage actor.

Sources & further reading

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· Wikidata: Q110083812

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