Ram John Holder
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.286 |
| Birthday | 1934-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Georgetown, British Guiana |
| Also Known As |
2006
Joy Division
5.154/26
A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London dur...
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Joy Division
1972
In the Beautiful Caribbean
0/0
Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.
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In the Beautiful Caribbean
1990
Missing Persons
4/1
During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage....
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Missing Persons
1986
Half Moon Street
5.136/59
Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, she starts m...
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Half Moon Street
1974
The Education of Sonny Carson
5.688/8
A 1974 film based on the best-selling autobiography of Sonny Carson who joined a gang and committed petty crime before being sent to prison. After his...
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The Education of Sonny Carson
2012
Song for Marion
6.8/162
Arthur is a grumpy pensioner who can't understand why his wife Marion would want to embarrass herself singing silly songs with her unconventional loca...
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Song for Marion
2023
Your Christmas or Mine 2
6.2/113
They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent family Christmas or has their future together gone off...
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Your Christmas or Mine 2
2022
Your Christmas or Mine?
6.4/205
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-secon...
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Your Christmas or Mine?
1992
The Jazz Detective
7/1
Jazz musician Bernie Weston find himself falsely accused of murder in Bristol. With the aid of a local reporter he sets out to clear his name and find...
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The Jazz Detective
1992
In Dreams
8.5/2
Lenny has some perplexing dreams.
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In Dreams
1985
My Beautiful Laundrette
6.739/306
A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a pe...
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My Beautiful Laundrette
1970
Leo the Last
5.275/20
Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European...
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Leo the Last
1999
Virtual Sexuality
5.345/58
A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accident, gives him life.
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Virtual Sexuality
1969
Two Gentlemen Sharing
5.5/2
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
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Two Gentlemen Sharing
2004
The Calcium Kid
5.533/61
When milkman Jimmy Connelly accidentally puts Britain's contender for the World title out of action, he is propelled from amateur boxer to the world s...
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The Calcium Kid
1982
Britannia Hospital
6.313/72
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...
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Britannia Hospital
2001
Lucky Break
6.237/38
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which...
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Lucky Break
1979
Cuba
5.519/53
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances...
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Cuba
1976
Pressure
6.4/10
A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
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Pressure
1987
Playing Away
6/6
To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South Lond...
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Playing Away
1972
Man Friday
9/1
Play based on the tale of Robinson Crusoe, examining the relationship between Crusoe and Man Friday, with a new twist by which both characters believe...
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Man Friday
1977
Roadrunner
0/0
A young West Indian has to interrupt his rich international life to sort out some passport trouble at home. His lifestyle is very different from the s...
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Roadrunner
1985
Playboy of the West Indies
0/0
Based on J. M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World. Peggy Ford runs her father's rum bar in Mayaro, a quiet fishing village in Trinidad. Nothing much...
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Playboy of the West Indies
2016
City of Tiny Lights
5.2/85
In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye int...
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City of Tiny Lights
1986
The Passion of Remembrance
0/0
Co-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and Video offers a radical and necessary interrogation into wh...
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The Passion of Remembrance
1994
O Mary This London
8/1
Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless, their adve...
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O Mary This London
1974
Robinson Crusoe
7/1
A man struggles to survive after being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
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