Actor
Ram John Holder
92 years · Georgetown, British Guiana · 26 films
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
Best known for
Filmography 26
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023 · Grandad
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022 · Grandad
On Amazon Prime Video
City of Tiny Lights
2016 · Trinidad Pete
Song for Marion
2012 · Charlie
On Kanopy
Joy Division
2006 · Neville
On Plex
The Calcium Kid
2004 · Jamaican Barber
Lucky Break
2001 · Old Billy Morris
Virtual Sexuality
1999 · Declan
O Mary This London
1994 · Neville
The Jazz Detective
1992 · Silver
Missing Persons
1990 · Chalky White
Playing Away
1987 · Wilf
Half Moon Street
1986 · Lindsay Walker
The Passion of Remembrance
1986 · Benjy Baptiste
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985 · Poet
Video Stars
1983 · Doc Shadow
Britannia Hospital
1982 · Radical
On Kanopy
Cuba
1979 · Fat Sergeant
Roadrunner
1977 · Trevor Ford
Pressure
1976 · Brother John
On BFI Player Amazon Channel
Robinson Crusoe
1974 · Friday
The Education of Sonny Carson
1974 · Preacher
Man Friday
1972 · Man Friday
In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972 · Bredda Ordinance