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Ram John Holder

Ram John Holder

Birthday: 1934-01-01 | Place of Birth: 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

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2023
Your Christmas or Mine 2

as    Grandad

2022
Your Christmas or Mine?

as    Grandad

2016
City of Tiny Lights

as    Trinidad Pete

2013
Song for Marion

as    Charlie

2004
The Calcium Kid

as    Jamaican Barber

1999
Virtual Sexuality

as    Declan

1995
Porkpie

as    Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant

1994
O Mary This London

as    Neville

1992
The Jazz Detective

as    Silver

1992
In Dreams

as    Uncle Norman

1990
Missing Persons

as    Chalky White

1989
Desmond's

as    Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant

1986
Half Moon Street

as    Lindsay Walker

1976
Pressure

as    Brother John

1974
The Education of Sonny Carson

as    Preacher

1972
Man Friday

as    Man Friday

1971
Leo the Last

as    Black Preacher

1969
Two Gentlemen Sharing

as    Marcus