Cast
Ram John Holder
Acting
Cast
Ram John Holder
Known for
Acting
Born
1934-01-01
From
Georgetown, British Guiana
Biography
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
Joy Division
as Neville
Cuba
as Fat Sergeant
My Beautiful Laundrette
as Poet
Song for Marion
as Charlie
The Education of Sonny Carson
as Preacher
Half Moon Street
as Lindsay Walker
The Calcium Kid
as Jamaican Barber
Lucky Break
as Old Billy Morris
Britannia Hospital
as Radical
Virtual Sexuality
as Declan
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Grandad
Man Friday
as Man Friday
Leo the Last
as Black Preacher
Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Grandad
City of Tiny Lights
as Trinidad Pete
Pressure
as Brother John
The Passion of Remembrance
as Benjy Baptiste
Playing Away
as Wilf
The Jazz Detective
as Silver
Missing Persons
as Chalky White
O Mary This London
as Neville
In the Beautiful Caribbean
as Bredda Ordinance
In Dreams
as Uncle Norman
Two Gentlemen Sharing
as Marcus
Roadrunner
as Trevor Ford
Playboy of the West Indies
as Mac
Robinson Crusoe
as Friday