Ram John Holder
Date of birth: 1934-01-01
Place of birth: Georgetown, British Guiana
Known for: Acting
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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
Movie Credits
Joy Division
2006-11-17
A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by
In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972-02-03
Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and
Missing Persons
1990-05-30
During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's
Half Moon Street
1986-08-13
Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated
The Education of Sonny Carson
1974-07-17
A 1974 film based on the best-selling autobiography of Sonny Carson who joined a gang and committed
Song for Marion
2012-09-15
Arthur is a grumpy pensioner who can't understand why his wife Marion would want to embarrass hersel
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023-12-07
They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent fami
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022-12-02
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London trai
The Jazz Detective
1992-04-27
Jazz musician Bernie Weston find himself falsely accused of murder in Bristol. With the aid of a loc
In Dreams
1992-12-23
Lenny has some perplexing dreams.
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985-11-16
A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in h
Virtual Sexuality
1999-07-02
A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accide
Leo the Last
1970-09-04
Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded wi
Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969-09-17
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Lucky Break
2001-08-24
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lu
The Calcium Kid
2004-04-30
When milkman Jimmy Connelly accidentally puts Britain's contender for the World title out of action,
Britannia Hospital
1982-05-27
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by
Cuba
1979-12-21
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army
Pressure
1976-11-19
A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cul
Playing Away
1987-01-02
To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English vi
Man Friday
1972-10-30
Play based on the tale of Robinson Crusoe, examining the relationship between Crusoe and Man Friday,
Roadrunner
1977-07-05
A young West Indian has to interrupt his rich international life to sort out some passport trouble a
Playboy of the West Indies
1985-10-13
Based on J. M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World. Peggy Ford runs her father's rum bar in Mayaro,
City of Tiny Lights
2016-09-12
In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-p
The Passion of Remembrance
1986-01-02
Co-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and Video of
O Mary This London
1994-03-30
Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Ke