Ram John Holder

Birthday:: 01/01/1934
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

Credits

	Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023) as Grandad
	Your Christmas or Mine? (2022) as Grandad
	City of Tiny Lights (2016) as Trinidad Pete
	Song for Marion (2012) as Charlie
	Joy Division (2006) as Neville
	The Calcium Kid (2004) as Jamaican Barber
	Lucky Break (2001) as Old Billy Morris
	Virtual Sexuality (1999) as Declan
	O Mary This London (1994) as Neville
	In Dreams (1992) as Uncle Norman
	The Jazz Detective (1992) as Silver
	Missing Persons (1990) as Chalky White
	Playing Away (1987) as Wilf
	Half Moon Street (1986) as Lindsay Walker
	The Passion of Remembrance (1986) as Benjy Baptiste
	My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) as Poet
	Playboy of the West Indies (1985) as Mac
	Britannia Hospital (1982) as Radical
	Cuba (1979) as Fat Sergeant
	Roadrunner (1977) as Trevor Ford
	Pressure (1976) as Brother John
	Robinson Crusoe (1974) as Friday
	The Education of Sonny Carson (1974) as Preacher
	Man Friday (1972) as Man Friday
	In the Beautiful Caribbean (1972) as Bredda Ordinance
	Leo the Last (1970) as Black Preacher
	Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969) as Marcus

	Take a Girl Like You Musician
	Leo the Last Songs
	Leo the Last Additional Writing