
Ram John Holder
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1934-01-01
Place of birth: Georgetown, British Guiana
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

Joy Division
2006Neville
In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972Bredda Ordinance
Missing Persons
1990Chalky White
Half Moon Street
1986Lindsay Walker
The Education of Sonny Carson
1974Preacher
Song for Marion
2012Charlie
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023Grandad
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022Grandad
The Jazz Detective
1992SilverIn Dreams
1992Uncle Norman
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985Poet
Virtual Sexuality
1999Declan
Leo the Last
1970Black Preacher
Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969Marcus
Lucky Break
2001Old Billy Morris
The Calcium Kid
2004Jamaican Barber
Britannia Hospital
1982Radical
Cuba
1979Fat Sergeant
Pressure
1976Brother John