
Ram John Holder
Actor
Born: January 1, 1934 (92 years old)
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
Filmography (25)
- Song for Marion (2012, ★ 6.8)
- Heartbeat (1992, ★ 7.1)
- Desmond's (1989, ★ 7.3)
- Death in Paradise (2011, ★ 7.5)
- Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023, ★ 6.2)
- Your Christmas or Mine? (2022, ★ 6.4)
- My Beautiful Laundrette (1985, ★ 6.7)
- Virtual Sexuality (1999, ★ 5.3)
- Leo the Last (1970, ★ 5.2)
- Lucky Break (2001, ★ 6.1)
- The Calcium Kid (2004, ★ 5.5)
- Britannia Hospital (1982, ★ 6.3)
- White Van Man (2011, ★ 6.7)
- Beautiful People (2008, ★ 6.8)
- The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002, ★ 6.5)
- Joy Division (2006, ★ 5)
- Half Moon Street (1986, ★ 5.1)
- The Education of Sonny Carson (1974, ★ 4.9)
- Cuba (1979, ★ 5.4)
- Pressure (1976, ★ 6.2)
- Playing Away (1987, ★ 5.6)
- Hex (2004, ★ 6.3)
- City of Tiny Lights (2016, ★ 5.2)
- BBC Play of the Month (1965, ★ 5)
- Take a Girl Like You (1970, ★ 5.6)