Ram John Holder
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Ram John Holder

Born 1 January 1934 · Georgetown, British Guiana
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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 Paradise
My Beautiful Laundrette
Your Christmas or Mine?
Song for Marion
Your Christmas or Mine 2
City of Tiny Lights
Britannia Hospital
Hex
The Calcium Kid
Half Moon Street
Virtual Sexuality
Cuba
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Your Christmas or Mine?
City of Tiny Lights
Song for Marion
Joy Division
The Calcium Kid
Lucky Break
Virtual Sexuality
O Mary This London
The Jazz Detective
Missing Persons
Playing Away
Half Moon Street
The Passion of Remembrance
My Beautiful Laundrette
Video Stars
Britannia Hospital
Cuba
Roadrunner
Pressure
The Education of Sonny Carson
Robinson Crusoe
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Man Friday
Leo the Last
Two Gentlemen Sharing
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