British actor Julian Holloway, comedy actor who was the son of Stanley Holloway (and the father of model Sophie Dahl), has died, age 80, his family announced. Like so many actors, he got his start onstage, appeared in such West End productions as All Square, When Did You Last See My Mother?, Spitting Image, The Norman Conquests, and Arsenic And Old Lace. Between 1961 and 2020, Holloway appeared (mostly in small or supporting roles) in some 150 TV series (and a handful of films). He was in eight bawdy Carry On films (Doctor, Up the Khyber, Camping, Loving, Henry VIII, at Your Convenience, Christmas, England). He also worked as a voice actor, recently as Death in Regular Show. Holloway said that his favorite Carry On was Up the Khyber: “It was great fun to do with a great script. I think the historical ones with the period costumes were the best. They were actually filming Chitty Chitty Bang Bang whilst we were filming Khyber. As with most things on the Carry Ons it was done very cheaply, and I think everything was stolen! Possibly from the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang sets.” His least favorite? “Camping. It was a miserable shoot. I remember Kenneth Williams saying to me on that shoot not to hang around. He said, ‘Don’t let the stigma of the Carry Ons attach itself to you.’”
