Ram John Holder
Actor
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
Filmography
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Grandad 2022
Song for Marion
as Charlie 2012
Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Grandad 2023
City of Tiny Lights
as Trinidad Pete 2016
Britannia Hospital
as Radical 1982
Half Moon Street
as Lindsay Walker 1986
The Calcium Kid
as Jamaican Barber 2004
Virtual Sexuality
as Declan 1999
Cuba
as Fat Sergeant 1979
Lucky Break
as Old Billy Morris 2001
Joy Division
as Neville 2006
Leo the Last
as Black Preacher 1970
Pressure
as Brother John 1976
The Education of Sonny Carson
as Preacher 1974
Playing Away
as Wilf 1987
Missing Persons
as Chalky White 1990