Roy Holder
Roy Holder
15.06.1945 (78 years)
Roy Holder (born 15 June 1946) is an English television actor who has 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), Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967). In 1968 he played Peter in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet Appearances in The Virgin Soldiers (1969), Loot (1970), Psychomania (1973), The Land That Time Forgot (1975), Trial by Combat (1976) followed and he worked with Zeffirelli for a third time in the Jesus of Nazareth miniseries in 1977. Holder also appeared as Mr Callard in "Precious Bane", Frank Baker in Sorry!, 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). Fred Goddard in Warhorse (2011) Holder returned to television in 2018, featuring in Dark Heart.