Ram John Holder
ActingGuyanese 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
My Beautiful Laundrette
Poet
Joy Division
Neville
Cuba
Fat Sergeant
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Grandad
City of Tiny Lights
Trinidad Pete
The Calcium Kid
Jamaican Barber
Song for Marion
Charlie
Lucky Break
Old Billy Morris
Your Christmas or Mine?
Grandad
Britannia Hospital
Radical
Filmography — Acting
My Beautiful Laundrette
Poet
Joy Division
Neville
Cuba
Fat Sergeant
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Grandad
City of Tiny Lights
Trinidad Pete
The Calcium Kid
Jamaican Barber
Song for Marion
Charlie
Lucky Break
Old Billy Morris
Your Christmas or Mine?
Grandad
Britannia Hospital
Radical
The Education of Sonny Carson
Preacher
Half Moon Street
Lindsay Walker
Virtual Sexuality
Declan
Playing Away
Wilf
Leo the Last
Black Preacher
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Marcus
Roadrunner
Trevor Ford
The Jazz Detective
Silver
O Mary This London
Neville
Pressure
Brother John
The Passion of Remembrance
Benjy Baptiste
Missing Persons
Chalky White
Man Friday
Man Friday
Playboy of the West Indies
Mac
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Bredda Ordinance
In Dreams
Uncle Norman
Robinson Crusoe
Friday