Ram John Holder
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 1, 1934, Georgetown, British Guiana
- Movies
- 28
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
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2023 | Your Christmas or Mine 2 | Grandad |
| 2022 | Your Christmas or Mine? | Grandad |
| 2016 | City of Tiny Lights | Trinidad Pete |
| 2012 | Song for Marion | Charlie |
| 2006 | Joy Division | Neville |
| 2004 | The Calcium Kid | Jamaican Barber |
| 2001 | Lucky Break | Old Billy Morris |
| 1999 | Virtual Sexuality | Declan |
| 1994 | O Mary This London | Neville |
| 1992 | In Dreams | Uncle Norman |
| 1992 | The Jazz Detective | Silver |
| 1990 | Missing Persons | Chalky White |
| 1987 | Playing Away | Wilf |
| 1986 | Half Moon Street | Lindsay Walker |
| 1986 | The Passion of Remembrance | Benjy Baptiste |
| 1985 | My Beautiful Laundrette | Poet |
| 1985 | Playboy of the West Indies | Mac |
| 1983 | Video Stars | Doc Shadow |
| 1982 | Britannia Hospital | Radical |
| 1979 | Cuba | Fat Sergeant |
| 1977 | Roadrunner | Trevor Ford |
| 1976 | Pressure | Brother John |
| 1974 | Robinson Crusoe | Friday |
| 1974 | The Education of Sonny Carson | Preacher |
| 1972 | Man Friday | Man Friday |
| 1972 | In the Beautiful Caribbean | Bredda Ordinance |
| 1970 | Leo the Last | Black Preacher |
| 1969 | Two Gentlemen Sharing | Marcus |
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