My Fair Lady (film) at Higgins' home, seeking lessons. Pickering is intrigued and offers to cover all the attendant expenses if Higgins succeeds. Higgins agrees, and describes how women ruin lives ("I'm an Ordinary Man"). Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle (Stanley Holloway), a dustman, learns of his daughter's new residence ("With a Little Bit of Luck"). He shows up at Higgins' house three days later, ostensibly to protect his daughter's virtue, but in reality simply to extract some money from Higgins, and is bought off with £5. Higgins is impressed by the man's honesty, his natural gift for language, and especially his brazen lack
Alfred Schieske Sir Toby Belch (German: Tobias Rülps) in "Twelfth Night". He played Vladimir in "Waiting for Godot", Adam in "The Broken Jug", Götz in "Götz von Berlichingen" and Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". In 1961, in one of his most successful roles, he began playing Alfred P. Doolittle (Eliza's father) in the musical "My Fair Lady", first in Berlin, then Hamburg. Schieske's most important film role was in the 1948 DEFA production, the "Blum Affair", playing Otto Bonte, a criminal investigator who saves a Jewish man falsely accused of a crime, saves him and brings the real