Wilfrid Lawson (actor)

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Wilfrid Lawson (b. January 14, 1900 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, d. October 10, 1966, in London) was a British character actor.

His most celebrated role was as dustman Alfred P. Doolittle in the 1938 film version of Shaw's Pygmalion, the role later played by Stanley Holloway in the musical My Fair Lady (1964). Another noted role (yet uncredited) was as the uncle of Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey), in Room at the Top (1958), filmed in Lawson's hometown of Bradford.