Ram John Holder
Actor
- Born
- January 1, 1934 (age 92) · Georgetown, British Guiana
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
My Beautiful Laundrette
November 16, 1985
Your Christmas or Mine?
December 2, 2022
Song for Marion
September 15, 2012
Your Christmas or Mine 2
December 7, 2023
City of Tiny Lights
September 12, 2016
Britannia Hospital
May 27, 1982
The Calcium Kid
April 30, 2004
Half Moon Street
August 13, 1986
Virtual Sexuality
July 2, 1999
Cuba
December 21, 1979
Lucky Break
August 24, 2001
Joy Division
November 17, 2006
Acting28
- 2023Your Christmas or Mine 2 as Grandad
- 2022Your Christmas or Mine? as Grandad
- 2016City of Tiny Lights as Trinidad Pete
- 2012Song for Marion as Charlie
- 2006Joy Division as Neville
- 2004The Calcium Kid as Jamaican Barber
- 2001Lucky Break as Old Billy Morris
- 1999Virtual Sexuality as Declan
- 1994O Mary This London as Neville
- 1992In Dreams