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