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