Ram John Holder
Known for ActingBorn 1934-01-01Georgetown, 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
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