Roy Trevor Holder (15 June 1946 – 9 November 2021) was an English film and television actor who appeared in various programmes including Ace of Wands, Z-Cars, Spearhead, the Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani. His first notable appearance on the screen was in the 1961 film Whistle Down the Wind and he then appeared in Franco Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew (1967), and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967).
Career In 1968 he played Peter in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. Appearances in The Virgin Soldiers (1969), Loot (1970), The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), Psychomania (1973), The Land That Time Forgot (1974), and Trial by Combat (1976) followed, and he worked with Zeffirelli for a third time in the Jesus of Nazareth miniseries in 1977. He also played the recurring role of Frank Baker in the BBC TV series Sorry! from 1981 to 1988.Sorry! (Cast)
Holder also appeared as Mr Callard in "Precious Bane", as Mickey Lister in Coronation Street, and a photographer in Steptoe and Son. He played Nick the taxi driver in EastEnders (2000), as well as the part of Mr. Hill in Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Gaffer Tom in Robin Hood (2010).
Holder returned to film in 2011 as Fred Goddard in War Horse; and made a return to television in 2018, featuring in Dark Heart.
Personal life Holder played in several celebrity golf tournaments throughout the year for The Stage Golfing Society.
In 2016, after they had been together for more than 40 years, Holder married Pauline Cox, a BBC makeup and hair designer whom he had met when they were working on the play Brent Geese in 1975. They had two children.
Holder died from cancer, on 9 November 2021, aged 75.RIP Roy Holder
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1961 Whistle Down the Wind Jackie 1962 Term of Trial Thompson 1964 Murder Ahoy! Petty Officer Lamb Uncredited1965 Othello Clown 1967 The Taming of the Shrew Biondello 1967 Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush Arthur 1968 Romeo and Juliet Peter 1969 The Virgin Soldiers Fenwick 1970 The Virgin and the Gypsy Bob 1970 Loot Hal 1973 Psychomania Bertram 1974 The Land That Time Forgot Plesser 1976 Trial by Combat William Renfield 1977 Jesus of Nazareth Enoch TV mini-series1985 Out of the Darkness Garage man 1989 Mack the Knife Wally the Weeper 1995 Cynthia Payne's House of Cyn Client 2004 Tooth Garbage Man 2005 Pride & Prejudice Mr. Hill 2010 Robin Hood Gaffer Tom 2011 War Horse Fred Goddard
References
External links
Roy Holder at Theatricalia