About

Known credits:
28
Birthday:
1934-01-01
Place of birth:
Georgetown, British Guiana
Website:
N/A

Ram John Holder

Overview

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 Actor Grandad 59
Average
2022 Your Christmas or Mine? Actor Grandad 60
Fair
2016 City of Tiny Lights Actor Trinidad Pete 57
Average
2012 Song for Marion Actor Charlie 61
Fair
2006 Joy Division Actor Neville 58
Average
2004 The Calcium Kid Actor Jamaican Barber 58
Average
2001 Lucky Break Actor Old Billy Morris 59
Average
1999 Virtual Sexuality Actor Declan 58
Average
1995 Porkpie Actor Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant 69
Fair
1994 O Mary This London Actor Neville N/A
N/A
1992 In Dreams Actor Uncle Norman 58
Average
1990 Missing Persons Actor Chalky White 58
Average
1989 Desmond's Actor Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant 70
Good
1987 Playing Away Actor Wilf 58
Average
1986 Half Moon Street Actor Lindsay Walker 58
Average
1986 The Passion of Remembrance Actor Benjy Baptiste N/A
N/A
1985 My Beautiful Laundrette Actor Poet 62
Fair
1985 Playboy of the West Indies Actor Mac N/A
N/A
1982 Britannia Hospital Actor Radical 59
Average
1979 Cuba Actor Fat Sergeant 58
Average
1977 Roadrunner Actor Trevor Ford N/A
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1976 Pressure Actor Brother John 59
Average
1974 The Education of Sonny Carson Actor Preacher 58
Average
1972 Man Friday Actor Man Friday N/A
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1972 In the Beautiful Caribbean Actor Bredda Ordinance N/A
N/A
1970 Leo the Last Actor Black Preacher 58
Average
1969 Two Gentlemen Sharing Actor Marcus 58
Average

Sound
1970 Take a Girl Like You Sound Musician 58
Average