Ram John Holder
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

Top 10 collaborators

Roles

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

Crew

Take a Girl Like You (1970)
Musician