Biography
Roy Holder was an English actor. Born on 15 June 1946 in Birmingham, he began his career as a teenager with a role in the 1961 film Whistle Down the Wind. He later appeared in Franco Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew (1967) and played Peter in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968).
Holder's other film credits include The Land That Time Forgot (1974), Pride & Prejudice (2005) as Mr Hill, Robin Hood (2010) as Gaffer Tom and War Horse (2011) as Fred Goddard. On television he played Frank in the sitcom Sorry! (1981–1988), appeared in Doctor Who and EastEnders, and took the role of Workman in the 2006 drama Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!. He died on 9 November 2021.
