
Acting
Born January 1, 1934 · Georgetown, 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

Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023

Your Christmas or Mine?
2022

City of Tiny Lights
2016

Song for Marion
2012

Joy Division
2006

The Calcium Kid
2004

Lucky Break
2001

Virtual Sexuality
1999

O Mary This London
1994
In Dreams
1992

The Jazz Detective
1992

Missing Persons
1990

Playing Away
1987

Half Moon Street
1986

The Passion of Remembrance
1986

My Beautiful Laundrette
1985
Playboy of the West Indies
1985

Britannia Hospital
1982

Cuba
1979

Roadrunner
1977

Pressure
1976
Robinson Crusoe
1974

The Education of Sonny Carson
1974

Man Friday
1972

In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972

Leo the Last
1970

Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969