Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 1, 1934 (age 92)
Place of Birth
Georgetown, British Guiana
Ram John Holder
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 - Movies
Cuba
as Fat Sergeant
Joy Division
as Neville
My Beautiful Laundrette
as Poet
Lucky Break
as Old Billy Morris
Half Moon Street
as Lindsay Walker
City of Tiny Lights
as Trinidad Pete
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Grandad
Song for Marion
as Charlie
Britannia Hospital
as Radical
The Calcium Kid
as Jamaican Barber
