Editing Stanley Holloway (section)

====Last years====
[[File:Stanley Holloway Grave.jpg|thumb|right|upright|alt=tombstone inscribed to Holloway|Holloway's grave at East Preston, West Sussex]]
Holloway appeared for the first time in a major British television series in the BBC's 1967 adaptation of [[P. G. Wodehouse]]'s ''[[Blandings Castle]]'' stories, playing Beach, the butler, to [[Ralph Richardson]]'s Lord Emsworth.<ref name=times/> His portrayal of Beach was received with critical reservation, but the series was a popular success.{{#tag:ref|The critic of ''The Observer'' wrote, "rather far from my conception of Beach. ... The original Beach is rotund and pompous with an overwhelming consciousness of his own superiority."<ref>Richardson, Maurice. "Television", ''The Observer'', 26 February 1967, p. 26</ref> ''The Guardian'' wrote, "his accent hovered quite unaccountably between mummerset and Mayo".<ref>Reynolds, Stanley. "Television", ''The Guardian'', 25 February 1967, p. 6</ref>|group= n}} After ''My Fair Lady'', Holloway was able to get film roles in ''[[Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (film)|Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter]]'' (1968), which featured the 1960s British pop group [[Herman's Hermits]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160310002437/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b0a1a5b ''Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter'' (1969)], British Film Institute, accessed 11 July 2020</ref> ''[[The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes]]'', ''[[Flight of the Doves]]'' and ''[[Up the Front]]'', all in the early 1970s. His final film was ''[[Journey into Fear (1975 film)|Journey into Fear]]'' (1974).<ref name=BFI>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114073631/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/78372?view=credit&page=2 "Holloway, Stanley"], British Film Institute, accessed 24 November 2011</ref><ref>Maltin, p. 720</ref>

In 1970, Holloway began an association with the [[Shaw Festival]] in Canada, playing Burgess in ''[[Candida (play)|Candida]]''.<ref name=who/> He made what he considered his West End debut as a straight actor in ''Siege'' by [[David Ambrose]] at the [[Cambridge Theatre]] in 1972,{{#tag:ref|Holloway did not count his appearances as First Gravedigger and Bottom, because he did not regard Shakespeare as straight theatre.<ref name=hall>Hall, John. "Straight up", ''The Guardian'', 5 February 1972, p. 9</ref>|group= n}} co-starring with [[Alastair Sim]] and [[Michael Bryant (actor)|Michael Bryant]].<ref name=hall/> He returned to [[George Bernard Shaw|Shaw]] and Canada, playing the central character Walter/William in ''[[You Never Can Tell (play)|You Never Can Tell]]'' in 1973.<ref name=who/>

Holloway continued to perform until well into his eighties, touring Asia and Australia in 1977 together with [[Douglas Fairbanks Jr.]] and [[David Langton]] in ''[[The Pleasure of His Company]]'', by [[Samuel A. Taylor]] and [[Cornelia Otis Skinner]].<ref name=who/> He made his last appearance performing at the [[Royal Variety Performance]] at the [[London Palladium]] in 1980, aged 89.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090117135200/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/335080?view=cast Cast: Royal Variety Performance 1980], British Film Institute, accessed 23 April 2011</ref>

Holloway died of a [[stroke]] at the Nightingale Nursing Home in [[Littlehampton]], [[West Sussex]], on 30 January 1982, aged 91.<ref name=dnb/> He is buried, along with his wife Violet, at St Mary the Virgin Church in [[East Preston, West Sussex|East Preston]].<ref name=dnb/>