Ram John Holder
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1934-01-01 (91 years old)
Place of Birth
Georgetown, British Guiana
Ram John Holder
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
Known For
Acting
(2023)
Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Grandad
(2022)
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Grandad
(2016)
City of Tiny Lights
as Trinidad Pete
(2012)
Song for Marion
as Charlie
(2006)
Joy Division
as Neville
(2004)
The Calcium Kid
as Jamaican Barber
(2001)
Lucky Break
as Old Billy Morris
(1999)
Virtual Sexuality
as Declan
(1994)
O Mary This London
as Neville
(1992)
In Dreams
as Uncle Norman
(1992)
The Jazz Detective
as Silver
(1990)
Missing Persons
as Chalky White
(1987)
Playing Away
as Wilf
(1986)
Half Moon Street
as Lindsay Walker
(1986)
The Passion of Remembrance
as Benjy Baptiste
(1985)
My Beautiful Laundrette
as Poet
(1985)
(1982)
Britannia Hospital
as Radical
(1979)
Cuba
as Fat Sergeant
(1977)
Roadrunner
as Trevor Ford
(1976)
Pressure
as Brother John
(1974)
The Education of Sonny Carson
as Preacher
(1972)
Man Friday
as Man Friday
(1972)
In the Beautiful Caribbean
as Bredda Ordinance
(1970)
Leo the Last
as Black Preacher
(1969)
Two Gentlemen Sharing
as Marcus
Crew
(1970)
Take a Girl Like You
Musician