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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
Top Filmography

7.5
Death in Paradise
2011 // TV

6.7
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985 // MOVIE

6.4
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022 // MOVIE

6.8
Song for Marion
2012 // MOVIE

6.2
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023 // MOVIE

5.2
City of Tiny Lights
2016 // MOVIE

6.2
Casualty
1986 // TV

6.2
Casualty
1986 // TV

6.2
Britannia Hospital
1982 // MOVIE

6.3
Hex
2004 // TV

5.5
The Calcium Kid
2004 // MOVIE

5.0
Half Moon Street
1986 // MOVIE

5.3
Virtual Sexuality
1999 // MOVIE

5.4
Cuba
1979 // MOVIE

6.1
Lucky Break
2001 // MOVIE