Personal Info
Known Credits
26
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1934-01-01 (91 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Georgetown, British Guiana
Also Known For
Ram John Holder
Biography
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
| Grandad
2022 --
Your Christmas or Mine?
| Grandad
2016 --
City of Tiny Lights
| Trinidad Pete
2012 --
Song for Marion
| Charlie
2006 --
Joy Division
| Neville
2004 --
The Calcium Kid
| Jamaican Barber
2001 --
Lucky Break
| Old Billy Morris
1999 --
Virtual Sexuality
| Declan
1994 --
O Mary This London
| Neville
1992 --
In Dreams
| Uncle Norman
1992 --
The Jazz Detective
| Silver
1990 --
Missing Persons
| Chalky White
1987 --
Playing Away
| Wilf
1986 --
Half Moon Street
| Lindsay Walker
1986 --
The Passion of Remembrance
| Benjy Baptiste
1985 --
My Beautiful Laundrette
| Poet
1985 --
Playboy of the West Indies
| Mac
1982 --
Britannia Hospital
| Radical
1979 --
Cuba
| Fat Sergeant
1977 --
Roadrunner
| Trevor Ford
1976 --
Pressure
| Brother John
1974 --
The Education of Sonny Carson
| Preacher
1972 --
Man Friday
| Man Friday
1972 --
In the Beautiful Caribbean
| Bredda Ordinance
1970 --
Leo the Last
| Black Preacher
1969 --
Two Gentlemen Sharing
| Marcus