Ram John Holder

Born: 1934-01-01

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


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Your Christmas or Mine?

as Grandad
Released: 2022-12-02

Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London...

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Your Christmas or Mine 2

as Grandad
Released: 2023-12-07

They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent...

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My Beautiful Laundrette

as Poet
Released: 1985-11-16

A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama...

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The Calcium Kid

as Jamaican Barber
Released: 2004-04-30

When milkman Jimmy Connelly accidentally puts Britain's contender for the World title out of...

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Britannia Hospital

as Radical
Released: 1982-05-27

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a...

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Song for Marion

as Charlie
Released: 2012-09-15

Arthur is a grumpy pensioner who can't understand why his wife Marion would want to embarrass...

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City of Tiny Lights

as Trinidad Pete
Released: 2016-09-12

In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward...

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Half Moon Street

as Lindsay Walker
Released: 1986-08-13

Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly...

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Virtual Sexuality

as Declan
Released: 1999-07-02

A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak...

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Cuba

as Fat Sergeant
Released: 1979-12-21

A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's...

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Lucky Break

as Old Billy Morris
Released: 2001-08-24

Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets...

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Joy Division

as Neville
Released: 2006-11-17

A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is...

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Leo the Last

as Black Preacher
Released: 1970-09-04

Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and...

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Pressure

as Brother John
Released: 1976-11-19

A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two...

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Playing Away

as Wilf
Released: 1987-01-02

To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small...

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Two Gentlemen Sharing

as Marcus
Released: 1969-09-17

An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.

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The Education of Sonny Carson

as Preacher
Released: 1974-07-17

A 1974 film based on the best-selling autobiography of Sonny Carson who joined a gang and...

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Missing Persons

as Chalky White
Released: 1990-05-30

During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that...

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The Jazz Detective

as Silver
Released: 1992-04-27

Jazz musician Bernie Weston find himself falsely accused of murder in Bristol. With the aid of a...

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O Mary This London

as Neville
Released: 1994-03-30

Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old...

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The Passion of Remembrance

as Benjy Baptiste
Released: 1986-01-02

Co-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and...

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In the Beautiful Caribbean

as Bredda Ordinance
Released: 1972-02-03

Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment...

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Roadrunner

as Trevor Ford
Released: 1977-07-05

A young West Indian has to interrupt his rich international life to sort out some passport...

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Man Friday

as Man Friday
Released: 1972-10-30

Play based on the tale of Robinson Crusoe, examining the relationship between Crusoe and Man...

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Casualty

as George
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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Casualty

as Vivian House
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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Death in Paradise

as Nelson Myers
First aired: 2011-10-25

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling...

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Heartbeat

as Danny Flowers
First aired: 1992-04-10

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...

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Desmond's

as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
First aired: 1989-01-05

Desmond's was a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994....

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BBC Play of the Month

as Friday
First aired: 1965-10-19

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...

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Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

as Chalky White
First aired: 1996-01-03

Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her...

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Hex

as uncredited
First aired: 2004-10-17

The show opens with a girl who yearns to be popular and liked in her school. She wishes she was...

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Beautiful People

as Big Barry
First aired: 2008-10-02

Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys...

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White Van Man

as Uncle Phil
First aired: 2011-03-22

The incredible misadventures of two handymen on the road and the extraordinary people they meet...

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