Actor

Ram John Holder

January 1, 1934 · 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

Notable work

7.4
Death in Paradise (2011)
as Nelson Myers
6.7
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
as Poet

Often works with

Roshan Seth
2 titles together
My Beautiful Laundrette, City of Tiny Lights
Asa Butterfield
2 titles together
Your Christmas or Mine?, Your Christmas or Mine 2
Cora Kirk
2 titles together
Your Christmas or Mine?, Your Christmas or Mine 2
Angela Griffin
2 titles together
Your Christmas or Mine?, Your Christmas or Mine 2
Daniel Mays
2 titles together
Your Christmas or Mine?, Your Christmas or Mine 2
Alex Jennings
2 titles together
Your Christmas or Mine?, Your Christmas or Mine 2

Full filmography · 40

Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Grandad
20236.2
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Grandad
20226.4
City of Tiny Lights
as Trinidad Pete
20165.2
Song for Marion
as Charlie
20126.8
Joy Division
as Neville
20065.2
The Calcium Kid
as Jamaican Barber
20045.5
Lucky Break
as Old Billy Morris
20016.2
Virtual Sexuality
as Declan
19995.3
O Mary This London
as Neville
1994
In Dreams
as Uncle Norman
1992
The Jazz Detective
as Silver
1992
Missing Persons
as Chalky White
1990