Ram John Holder
Birthday: 1934-01-01
Place of Birth: Georgetown, British Guiana
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
Movies
Joy Division
A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by...
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In the Beautiful Caribbean
Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and...
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Missing Persons
During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's ...
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Half Moon Street
Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated ...
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The Education of Sonny Carson
A 1974 film based on the best-selling autobiography of Sonny Carson who joined a gang and committed ...
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Song for Marion
Arthur is a grumpy pensioner who can't understand why his wife Marion would want to embarrass hersel...
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Your Christmas or Mine 2
They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent fami...
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Your Christmas or Mine?
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London trai...
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The Jazz Detective
Jazz musician Bernie Weston find himself falsely accused of murder in Bristol. With the aid of a loc...
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My Beautiful Laundrette
A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in h...
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Virtual Sexuality
A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accide...
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Leo the Last
Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded wi...
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Two Gentlemen Sharing
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together....
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The Calcium Kid
When milkman Jimmy Connelly accidentally puts Britain's contender for the World title out of action,...
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Lucky Break
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lu...
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Cuba
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army ...
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Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by...
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Pressure
A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cul...
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Playing Away
To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English vi...
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Man Friday
Play based on the tale of Robinson Crusoe, examining the relationship between Crusoe and Man Friday,...
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Roadrunner
A young West Indian has to interrupt his rich international life to sort out some passport trouble a...
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Playboy of the West Indies
Based on J. M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World. Peggy Ford runs her father's rum bar in Mayaro,...
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City of Tiny Lights
In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-p...
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The Passion of Remembrance
Co-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and Video of...
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O Mary This London
Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Ke...
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