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
27 movies · 16 shows
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023·6.2
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022·6.4
City of Tiny Lights
2016·5.2
Song for Marion
2012·6.8
Joy Division
2006·5.2
The Calcium Kid
2004·5.5
Lucky Break
2001·6.2
Virtual Sexuality
1999·5.3
O Mary This London
1994·8.0
In Dreams
1992·8.5
The Jazz Detective
1992·7.0
Missing Persons
1990·4.0
Playing Away
1987·6.0
Half Moon Street
1986·5.1
The Passion of Remembrance
1986·0.0
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985·6.7
Playboy of the West Indies
1985·0.0
Britannia Hospital
1982·6.3
Cuba
1979·5.5
Roadrunner
1977·0.0
Pressure
1976·6.4
Robinson Crusoe
1974·7.0
The Education of Sonny Carson
1974·5.7
Man Friday
1972·9.0
In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972·0.0
Leo the Last
1970·5.3
Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969·5.5