
Ram John Holder
Acting
1934-01-01 - Present
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

My Beautiful LaundretteasPoet

Song for MarionasCharlie

Your Christmas or Mine 2asGrandad

Joy DivisionasNeville

CubaasFat Sergeant

Lucky BreakasOld Billy Morris

Britannia HospitalasRadical

Your Christmas or Mine?asGrandad

The Calcium KidasJamaican Barber

City of Tiny LightsasTrinidad Pete

Virtual SexualityasDeclan

The Education of Sonny CarsonasPreacher

Half Moon StreetasLindsay Walker

Leo the LastasBlack Preacher

Two Gentlemen SharingasMarcus

Playing AwayasWilf

PressureasBrother John

The Passion of RemembranceasBenjy Baptiste

Missing PersonsasChalky White
In DreamsasUncle Norman
Playboy of the West IndiesasMac

O Mary This LondonasNeville

In the Beautiful CaribbeanasBredda Ordinance

Man FridayasMan Friday

The Jazz DetectiveasSilver

RoadrunnerasTrevor Ford