1934Born, Georgetown
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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
Known for
Death in ParadiseNelson Myers
My Beautiful LaundrettePoet
Your Christmas or Mine?Grandad
Song for MarionCharlie
Your Christmas or Mine 2Grandad2023Your Christmas or Mine 2GrandadMovie
2022Your Christmas or Mine?GrandadMovie
2016City of Tiny LightsTrinidad PeteMovie
2012Song for MarionCharlieMovie
2006Joy DivisionNevilleMovie
2004The Calcium KidJamaican BarberMovie
2001Lucky BreakOld Billy MorrisMovie
1999Virtual SexualityDeclanMovie
1994O Mary This LondonNevilleMovie
1992In DreamsUncle NormanMovie
1992The Jazz DetectiveSilverMovie
1990Missing PersonsChalky WhiteMovie
1987Playing AwayWilfMovie
1986Half Moon StreetLindsay WalkerMovie
1986The Passion of RemembranceBenjy BaptisteMovie
1985My Beautiful LaundrettePoetMovie
1985Playboy of the West IndiesMacMovie
1983Video StarsDoc ShadowMovie
1982Britannia HospitalRadicalMovie
1979CubaFat SergeantMovie
1977RoadrunnerTrevor FordMovie
1976PressureBrother JohnMovie
1974Robinson CrusoeFridayMovie
1974The Education of Sonny CarsonPreacherMovie
1972Man FridayMan FridayMovie
1972In the Beautiful CaribbeanBredda OrdinanceMovie
1970Take a Girl Like YouMusicianMovie
1970Leo the LastBlack Preacher · Songs · Additional WritingMovie
1969Two Gentlemen SharingMarcusMovie
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