Ram John Holder

Actor

1934-01-01 · 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

• My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) — Poet
• Your Christmas or Mine? (2022) — Grandad
• Un cântec pentru Marion (2012) — Charlie
• Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023) — Grandad
• City of Tiny Lights (2016) — Trinidad Pete
• Spitalul Britannia (1982) — Radical
• The Calcium Kid (2004) — Jamaican Barber
• Half Moon Street (1986) — Lindsay Walker
• Virtual Sexuality (1999) — Declan
• Cuba (1979) — Fat Sergeant
• Lucky Break (2001) — Old Billy Morris
• Joy Division (2006) — Neville
• Leo the Last (1970) — Black Preacher, Songs, Additional Writing
• Take a Girl Like You (1970) — Musician
• Pressure (1976) — Brother John
• The Education of Sonny Carson (1974) — Preacher
• Playing Away (1987) — Wilf
• Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969) — Marcus
• Robinson Crusoe (1974) — Friday
• Missing Persons (1990) — Chalky White
• The Jazz Detective (1992) — Silver
• Man Friday (1972) — Man Friday
• O Mary This London (1994) — Neville
• In the Beautiful Caribbean (1972) — Bredda Ordinance