Roy Holder

Roy Holder was an English actor who worked in film and television, making his first notable screen appearance in Whistle Down the Wind (1961). Born in Birmingham, he won parts in two films by Franco Zeffirelli, The Taming of the Shrew (1967) and Romeo and Juliet (1968), playing Peter in the second. He also appeared in Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968), and later films included Psychomania (1973) and The Land That Time Forgot (1974). A third Zeffirelli collaboration followed on the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth. On television he was a regular as Frank Baker in the BBC series Sorry! from 1981 to 1988, and he appeared in Ace of Wands, Z-Cars, Coronation Street, EastEnders and a Doctor Who serial, The Caves of Androzani. His later credits included War Horse in 2011 and Dark Heart in 2018. He died in 2021.