Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1/1/1934
Place of Birth
Georgetown, British Guiana
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
Joy Division
as Neville
Virtual Sexuality
as Declan
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Grandad
Song for Marion
as Charlie
Britannia Hospital
as Radical
Cuba
as Fat Sergeant
Half Moon Street
as Lindsay Walker
My Beautiful Laundrette
as Poet
Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Grandad
Leo the Last
as Black Preacher
The Calcium Kid
as Jamaican Barber
Missing Persons
as Chalky White
Pressure
as Brother John
City of Tiny Lights
as Trinidad Pete
Two Gentlemen Sharing
as Marcus
O Mary This London
as Neville
Roadrunner
as Trevor Ford
In the Beautiful Caribbean
as Bredda Ordinance
The Jazz Detective
as Silver
Man Friday
as Man Friday