Ram John Holder
Acting
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
2023Your Christmas or Mine 2
Grandad
2022Your Christmas or Mine?
Grandad
2016City of Tiny Lights
Trinidad Pete
2012Song for Marion
Charlie
2006Joy Division
Neville
2004The Calcium Kid
Jamaican Barber
2001Lucky Break
Old Billy Morris
1999Virtual Sexuality
Declan
1994O Mary This London
Neville
1992The Jazz Detective
Silver
1990Missing Persons
Chalky White
1987Playing Away
Wilf
1986Half Moon Street
Lindsay Walker
1986The Passion of Remembrance
Benjy Baptiste
1985My Beautiful Laundrette
Poet
1982Britannia Hospital
Radical
1979Cuba
Fat Sergeant
1977Roadrunner
Trevor Ford
1976Pressure
Brother John
1974The Education of Sonny Carson
Preacher
1974Robinson Crusoe
Friday
1972In the Beautiful Caribbean
Bredda Ordinance
1972Man Friday
Man Friday
1970Leo the Last
Black Preacher