Ram John Holder

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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

Most Popular Ram John Holder Trailers

Total trailers found: 28

Half Moon Street Trailer (1986)

13 August 1986

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

Playing Away Trailer (1987)

02 January 1987

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 London to a charity game with comical results.

Joy Division Trailer (2006)

17 November 2006

A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar.

City of Tiny Lights Trailer (2016)

12 September 2016

In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye into a dangerous world of religious fanaticism and political intrigue.

Cuba Trailer (1979)

21 December 1979

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 a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.

Britannia Hospital Trailer (1982)

27 May 1982

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself.

Song for Marion Trailer (2012)

15 September 2012

Arthur is a grumpy pensioner who can't understand why his wife Marion would want to embarrass herself singing silly songs with her unconventional local choir.

Leo the Last Trailer (1970)

04 September 1970

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 jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest.

My Beautiful Laundrette Trailer (1985)

16 November 1985

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.

Roadrunner Trailer (1977)

05 July 1977

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

Take a Girl Like You Trailer (1970)

16 December 1970

Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick, one of the local "lads".

In the Beautiful Caribbean Trailer (1972)

03 February 1972

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

The Calcium Kid Trailer (2004)

30 April 2004

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 stage and announced as the replacement contender for the championship fight.

Your Christmas or Mine? Trailer (2022)

02 December 2022

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-second decision to swap trains and surprise each other.

Your Christmas or Mine 2 Trailer (2023)

07 December 2023

They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent family Christmas or has their future together gone off-piste?

Virtual Sexuality Trailer (1999)

02 July 1999

A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accident, gives him life.

Lucky Break Trailer (2001)

24 August 2001

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 he can probably escape.

Pressure Trailer (1976)

19 November 1976

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

The Education of Sonny Carson Trailer (1974)

17 July 1974

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.

In Dreams Trailer (1992)

23 December 1992

Lenny has some perplexing dreams.

Two Gentlemen Sharing Trailer (1969)

17 September 1969

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

Playboy of the West Indies Trailer (1985)

13 October 1985

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.

Missing Persons Trailer (1990)

30 May 1990

During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage.

Man Friday Trailer (1972)

30 October 1972

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 they are teaching the other.

O Mary This London Trailer (1994)

30 March 1994

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

The Passion of Remembrance Trailer (1986)

02 January 1986

Co-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and Video offers a radical and necessary interrogation into what constitutes 'post-colonial' identity at a time of political and social restlessness in Britain.

Robinson Crusoe Trailer (1974)

29 December 1974

A man struggles to survive after being shipwrecked on a deserted island.

The Jazz Detective Trailer (1992)

27 April 1992

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 the real killer.