Oz is a boy fascinated by horror stories, such as " Twisty: The Clown Chronicles," a comic book. Ivy loved Oz but secretly hated Ally since Ally gave birth to Oz. During Roy Holder’s four years with the National Theatre company, it was based at the Old Vic, not the Aldwych as an earlier version stated.When Oz was born, Ally named him after the kings of kings. This article was amended on 6 December 2021. Roy Trevor Holder, actor, born 15 June 1946 died 9 November 2021 She and their children, Kate and Thomas, survive him. 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. His other film parts included the clown in Othello (1965), one of the raw recruits in The Virgin Soldiers (1969), Bob in The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), Hal in Loot (1970) and Fred Goddard in War Horse (2011).
Swimming with Taylor in the Mediterranean during time off was one of the actor’s happiest memories. Zeffirelli, a guest director there, cast Holder in two Shakespeare film adaptations – as Biondello in The Taming of the Shrew (1967), starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, and Peter in Romeo and Juliet (1968), with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey in the title roles. Holder’s early stage career included four years with the National Theatre company at the Old Vic (1964-67), during which time he had elocution lessons after Olivier told him: “My dear boy, you must lose your Birmingham accent.” Roy Holder, left, with Hywel Bennett in Loot, 1970. He also played Potty, one of the Brummie anglers, in the comedy-drama series Eh Brian – It’s a Whopper (1984) and the slow-witted wagon driver Hiram Ford in Middlemarch (1994). He had a starring role as the tough Sergeant Bilinski, of Six Platoon, B Company Wessex Rangers, in the army drama Spearhead (1978-81). He played a schoolboy again, alongside Laurence Olivier’s alcoholic teacher, in the film Term of Trial (1962).Īfter returning to TV as Bugs in the children’s serial The Chem Lab Mystery (1963), Holder established himself as a character actor in dozens of series and plays, as well as bringing his comedy skills to light entertainment in The Little and Large Show (from 1987 to 1991) and The Les Dennis Laughter Show (1990-91). Holder showed his adaptability by adopting a northern accent, reflecting the resetting of Mary Hayley Bell’s novel from Kent to Lancashire. Richard Attenborough was so impressed by Holder’s performance that, in his role of producer, he cast him alongside Hayley Mills as Jackie, one of the children encountering a murderer ( Alan Bates) whom they mistake for Jesus Christ, in Whistle Down the Wind, one of the most popular films of 1961. Roy Holder, left, with Robert Shaw in The Train Set, 1961. At the age of 15, he was plucked from a shortlist of 150 pupils by the BBC to play a “rough-looking” boy with a broad Birmingham accent for a leading role as Robert Shaw’s son in The Train Set (1961), a play written by David Turner and performed live. He acted in plays while attending Upper Thomas Street secondary modern school. He was three when his father, a factory worker, died and his mother later remarried. Roy was born in Birmingham, to Florence (nee Clifford) and Frederick Holder. Now, get to it or you’re going to find yourself neutered!” “Over there is a girl who likes you very much. “Just shut up about your mother!” Frank tells Timothy in one of his attempts to find him a partner. Holder’s longest-running television role was in the sitcom Sorry! (1981-88) as Frank, drinking pal of the neurotic middle-aged librarian Timothy Lumsden ( Ronnie Corbett), who lives with his domineering mother.
Roy Holder in the 1961 film Whistle Down the Wind.
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