
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

Cuba
1979 · as Fat Sergeant

Joy Division
2006 · as Neville

Half Moon Street
1986 · as Lindsay Walker

Your Christmas or Mine?
2022 · as Grandad

Song for Marion
2012 · as Charlie

My Beautiful Laundrette
1985 · as Poet

The Calcium Kid
2004 · as Jamaican Barber

Lucky Break
2001 · as Old Billy Morris

Britannia Hospital
1982 · as Radical

Virtual Sexuality
1999 · as Declan

City of Tiny Lights
2016 · as Trinidad Pete

Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023 · as Grandad

Robinson Crusoe
1974 · as Friday

Man Friday
1972 · as Man Friday

The Passion of Remembrance
1986 · as Benjy Baptiste

Leo the Last
1970 · as Black Preacher

Playing Away
1987 · as Wilf

In Dreams
1992 · as Uncle Norman