Ram John Holder
Known for Acting
Biography
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
Joy Division
2006
as Neville
Cuba
1979
as Fat Sergeant
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
as Grandad
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985
as Poet
Song for Marion
2012
as Charlie
Half Moon Street
1986
as Lindsay Walker
Roadrunner
1977
as Trevor Ford
Man Friday
1972
as Man Friday
City of Tiny Lights
2016
as Trinidad Pete
Britannia Hospital
1982
as Radical
Virtual Sexuality
1999
as Declan
The Calcium Kid
2004
as Jamaican Barber
Lucky Break
2001
as Old Billy Morris
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023
as Grandad
Leo the Last
1970
as Black Preacher
Pressure
1976
as Brother John
Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969
as Marcus
In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972
as Bredda Ordinance
In Dreams
1992
as Uncle Norman
Playboy of the West Indies
1985
as Mac