Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#29760
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Roy Holder represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 47 years in, and Roy is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Roy Holder appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Roy. Pride & Prejudice is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for war, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Joe Wright and others, Roy Holder helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Pride & Prejudice (2005) as Mr. Hill · War Horse (2011) as Fred Goddard · Romeo and Juliet (1968) as Peter
Career snapshot
Ranked #29760 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1964–2011
Career length
47 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Pride & Prejudice
Average Nutevio score
7.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Pride & Prejudice
Most frequent director
Steven Spielberg
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Steven Spielberg
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
2h 9m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
8.2 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Pride & Prejudice — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
8.2
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
8.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1960s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Romeo and Juliet, Murder Ahoy.
Most productive era
1960s
2 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1960s | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.02 films | 8.21 film | 6.92 films |
| Action | — | — | 6.51 film |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.71 film | — | — |
| Crime | 6.71 film | — | — |
| Romance | 7.21 film | 8.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1964Murder Ahoy
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Petty Officer Lamb.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2011War Horse
The current state of the argument, as Fred Goddard.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
5 of 5 films
as Fred Goddard
Directed by Steven Spielberg
as Peter
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
as Petty Officer Lamb
Directed by George Pollock
as Gaffer Tom
Directed by Ridley Scott
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Mr. Hill
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mr. Hill gives Roy Holder a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Fred Goddard
War Horse (2011)
Performance score7.2
War Horse asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fred Goddard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Peter
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Performance score7.1
Romeo and Juliet asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Peter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Petty Officer Lamb
Murder Ahoy (1964)
Performance score6.6
Murder Ahoy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Petty Officer Lamb is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Mr. Hill
Start here. Pride & Prejudice is the clearest statement of what Roy Holder does — accessible, 128 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Roy at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Murder Ahoy (1964)
Keeps the drama register of Pride & Prejudice but asks for a colder reading of it.
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Keeps the drama register of Murder Ahoy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Robin Hood (2010)
Keeps the drama register of Romeo and Juliet but asks for a colder reading of it.
War Horse (2011)
Keeps the drama register of Robin Hood but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
George Pollock
Director
1 film together
Notably Murder Ahoy
Franco Zeffirelli
Director
1 film together
Notably Romeo and Juliet
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Pride & Prejudice
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Robin Hood
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably War Horse
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pride & PrejudiceSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
War HorseFranco Zeffirelli
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Romeo and JulietGeorge Pollock
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Murder AhoyRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Robin HoodSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Hill
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Hill
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Hill
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
War Horse
as Fred Goddard
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Hill
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Roy Holder has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
47 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Hill
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Murder Ahoy
as Petty Officer Lamb
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Hill
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Murder Ahoy
as Petty Officer Lamb
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Hill
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Robin Hood
as Gaffer Tom
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Hill
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Hill
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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