Ram John Holder

Ram John Holder (91)

1934-01-01 | 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

On Movies

  • Your Christmas or Mine 2
  • Your Christmas or Mine?
  • City of Tiny Lights
  • Song for Marion
  • Joy Division
  • The Calcium Kid
  • Lucky Break
  • Virtual Sexuality
  • O Mary This London
  • In Dreams
  • The Jazz Detective
  • Missing Persons
  • Playing Away
  • Half Moon Street
  • The Passion of Remembrance
  • My Beautiful Laundrette
  • Britannia Hospital
  • Cuba
  • Pressure
  • The Education of Sonny Carson
  • Man Friday
  • In the Beautiful Caribbean
  • Leo the Last
  • Two Gentlemen Sharing

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