Ram John Holder
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
Films (27)
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