Acting
Ram John Holder
EN cinema · 29 credits
Born
1 January 1934 (age 92)
Birthplace
Georgetown, British Guiana
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
Filmography
Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Grandad
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Grandad
City of Tiny Lights
as Trinidad Pete
Song for Marion
as Charlie
Joy Division
as Neville
The Calcium Kid
as Jamaican Barber
Lucky Break
as Old Billy Morris
Virtual Sexuality
as Declan
O Mary This London
as Neville
The Jazz Detective
as Silver
In Dreams
1992
In Dreams
as Uncle Norman
Missing Persons
as Chalky White
Playing Away
as Wilf
Half Moon Street
as Lindsay Walker
The Passion of Remembrance
as Benjy Baptiste
Video Stars
as Doc Shadow
Britannia Hospital
as Radical
Cuba
as Fat Sergeant
Roadrunner
as Trevor Ford
Pressure
as Brother John
The Education of Sonny Carson
as Preacher
Robinson Crusoe
as Friday
In the Beautiful Caribbean
as Bredda Ordinance
Man Friday
as Man Friday
Leo the Last
as Black Preacher, Songs, Additional Writing
Take a Girl Like You
Musician
Two Gentlemen Sharing
as Marcus