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Ram John Holder
Acting
Born: January 1, 1934
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
Known For
Cuba
as Fat Sergeant
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Grandad
Virtual Sexuality
as Declan
City of Tiny Lights
as Trinidad Pete
Britannia Hospital
as Radical
Lucky Break
as Old Billy Morris
Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Grandad
Half Moon Street
as Lindsay Walker
The Calcium Kid
as Jamaican Barber
My Beautiful Laundrette
as Poet
