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