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
Cuba (1979)
as Fat Sergeant
Joy Division (2006)
as Neville
Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
as Grandad
Song for Marion (2012)
as Charlie
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
as Poet
Half Moon Street (1986)
as Lindsay Walker
Robinson Crusoe (1974)
as Friday
Man Friday (1972)
as Man Friday
Video Stars (1983)
as Doc Shadow
Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023)
as Grandad
The Passion of Remembrance (1986)
as Benjy Baptiste
The Calcium Kid (2004)
as Jamaican Barber
City of Tiny Lights (2016)
as Trinidad Pete
Britannia Hospital (1982)
as Radical
Lucky Break (2001)
as Old Billy Morris
Playboy of the West Indies (1985)
as Mac
In the Beautiful Caribbean (1972)
as Bredda Ordinance
The Education of Sonny Carson (1974)
as Preacher
Leo the Last (1970)
as Black Preacher
Virtual Sexuality (1999)
as Declan
Roadrunner (1977)
as Trevor Ford
O Mary This London (1994)
as Neville
Playing Away (1987)
as Wilf
The Jazz Detective (1992)
as Silver
In Dreams (1992)
as Uncle Norman
Pressure (1976)
as Brother John
Missing Persons (1990)
as Chalky White
Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)
as Marcus