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Ram John Holder

Born
January 1, 1934
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
Your Christmas or Mine?
(2022)
Grandad
Song for Marion
(2012)
Charlie
My Beautiful Laundrette
(1985)
Poet
The Calcium Kid
(2004)
Jamaican Barber
Your Christmas or Mine 2
(2023)
Grandad
Virtual Sexuality
(1999)
Declan
City of Tiny Lights
(2016)
Trinidad Pete
Lucky Break
(2001)
Old Billy Morris
Cuba
(1979)
Fat Sergeant
Joy Division
(2006)
Neville
Britannia Hospital
(1982)
Radical
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