Ram John Holder
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Guyanese actor and musician, Ram John Holder started his professional life as a folk singer in New York in the early '60s before moving to the UK to work as a musician and later an actor for Pearl Connor's Negro Theatre Workshop. His big break was as the effeminate dancer Marcus in the 1969 film Two Gentlemen Sharing and he's worked in film and TV ever since, most notably as the loveable Porkpie in Channel 4 sitcom Desmond's (1989-1994) and the shortlived spin-off Porkpie
Known for
Credits
Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
as Grandad
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
as Poet
Joy Division (2006)
as Neville
Song for Marion (2012)
as Charlie
Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023)
as Grandad
City of Tiny Lights (2016)
as Trinidad Pete
Half Moon Street (1986)
as Lindsay Walker
Britannia Hospital (1982)
as Radical
The Calcium Kid (2004)
as Jamaican Barber
Cuba (1979)
as Fat Sergeant
Lucky Break (2001)
as Old Billy Morris
Man Friday (1972)
as Man Friday
Virtual Sexuality (1999)
as Declan
Leo the Last (1970)
as Black Preacher
Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)
as Marcus
The Education of Sonny Carson (1974)
as Preacher
Robinson Crusoe (1974)
as Friday
The Passion of Remembrance (1986)
as Benjy Baptiste
O Mary This London (1994)
as Neville
Missing Persons (1990)
as Chalky White
In the Beautiful Caribbean (1972)
as Bredda Ordinance
Roadrunner (1977)
as Trevor Ford
In Dreams (1992)
as Uncle Norman
Playing Away (1987)
as Wilf
Playboy of the West Indies (1985)
as Mac
The Jazz Detective (1992)
as Silver
Pressure (1976)
as Brother John