Ram John Holder
29 movies · 16 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 1, 1934 (age 92)
- 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
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Ram John Holder: movies and TV shows
Acting (44)
- 2023 Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Grandad
- 2022 Your Christmas or Mine?
as Grandad
- 2016 City of Tiny Lights
as Trinidad Pete
- 2012 Song for Marion
as Charlie
- 2011
- 2011
- 2008
- 2006 Joy Division
as Neville
- 2004
- 2004
- 2004 The Calcium Kid
as Jamaican Barber
- 2002
- 2001 Lucky Break
as Old Billy Morris
- 1999 Virtual Sexuality
as Declan
- 1995
- 1994 O Mary This London
as Neville
- 1992 In Dreams
as Uncle Norman
- 1992 The Jazz Detective
as Silver
- 1992
- 1990 Missing Persons
as Chalky White
- 1989
- 1988
- 1987
- 1987 Playing Away
as Wilf
- 1986
- 1986 Half Moon Street
as Lindsay Walker
- 1986 The Passion of Remembrance
as Benjy Baptiste
- 1985 My Beautiful Laundrette
as Poet
- 1985 Playboy of the West Indies
as Mac
- 1983 Video Stars
as Doc Shadow
- 1982 Britannia Hospital
as Radical
- 1979 Cuba
as Fat Sergeant
- 1977 Roadrunner
as Trevor Ford
- 1976 Pressure
as Brother John
- 1974 Robinson Crusoe
as Friday
- 1974 The Education of Sonny Carson
as Preacher
- 1972 Man Friday
as Man Friday
- 1972 In the Beautiful Caribbean
as Bredda Ordinance
- 1970 Leo the Last
as Black Preacher
- 1969 Two Gentlemen Sharing
as Marcus
- 1969
- 1968
- 1967
- 1965
Behind the camera (2)
- 1970 Take a Girl Like You
Musician
- 1970 Leo the Last
Songs, Additional Writing