Ram John Holder
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as Poet My Beautiful Laundrette 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
Filmography
My Beautiful Laundrette
as Poet
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Grandad
Song for Marion
as Charlie
Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Grandad
City of Tiny Lights
as Trinidad Pete
Britannia Hospital
as Radical
The Calcium Kid
as Jamaican Barber
Half Moon Street
as Lindsay Walker
Virtual Sexuality
as Declan
Cuba
as Fat Sergeant
Lucky Break
as Old Billy Morris
Joy Division
as Neville
Leo the Last
as Black Preacher
Pressure
as Brother John
The Education of Sonny Carson
as Preacher
Playing Away
as Wilf
Two Gentlemen Sharing
as Marcus
Missing Persons
as Chalky White
The Jazz Detective
as Silver