Ram John Holder

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

  • Title: Ram John Holder
  • Popularity: 7.82
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1934-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Georgetown, British Guiana
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Ram John Holder Movies

  • 2006
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    Joy Division
    Joy Division

    5.1 2006 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ed Stoppard

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  • 1986
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    Half Moon Street
    Half Moon Street

    5.1 1986 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Sigourney Weaver

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  • 1974
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    The Education of Sonny Carson
    The Education of Sonny Carson

    4.9 1974 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Rony Clanton

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  • 2012
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    Song for Marion
    Song for Marion

    6.8 2012 HD

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

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Terence Stamp

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  • 1985
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    My Beautiful Laundrette
    My Beautiful Laundrette

    6.723 1985 HD

    A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Gordon Warnecke

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  • 1970
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    Leo the Last
    Leo the Last

    5.4 1970 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

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  • 2001
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    Lucky Break
    Lucky Break

    6.2 2001 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: James Nesbitt

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  • 1999
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    Virtual Sexuality
    Virtual Sexuality

    5.2 1999 HD

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

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Laura Fraser

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  • 2004
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    The Calcium Kid
    The Calcium Kid

    5.6 2004 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Orlando Bloom

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  • 1969
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    Two Gentlemen Sharing
    Two Gentlemen Sharing

    4 1969 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robin Phillips

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  • 1982
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    Britannia Hospital
    Britannia Hospital

    6.4 1982 HD

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

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Graham Crowden

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  • 1979
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    Cuba
    Cuba

    5.4 1979 HD

    A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Sean Connery

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  • 1976
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    Pressure
    Pressure

    5.7 1976 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Herbert Norville

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  • 1987
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    Playing Away
    Playing Away

    5.6 1987 HD

    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...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Norman Beaton

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  • 1972
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    Man Friday
    Man Friday

    1 1972 HD

    Play based on the tale of Robinson Crusoe, examining the relationship between Crusoe and Man Friday, with a new twist by which both characters...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ram John Holder

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  • 1977
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    Roadrunner
    Roadrunner

    1 1977 HD

    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...

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    Cast: Trevor Thomas

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  • 1985
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    Playboy of the West Indies
    Playboy of the West Indies

    1 1985 HD

    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...

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    Cast: Joan Ann Maynard

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  • 2016
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    City of Tiny Lights
    City of Tiny Lights

    5.272 2016 HD

    In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Riz Ahmed

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  • 1986
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    The Passion of Remembrance
    The Passion of Remembrance

    1 1986 HD

    Co-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and Video offers a radical and necessary interrogation into...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anni Domingo

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  • 1994
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    O Mary This London
    O Mary This London

    1 1994 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Oba Seagrave

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  • 1990
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    Missing Persons
    Missing Persons

    4 1990 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Patricia Routledge

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  • 2022
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    Your Christmas or Mine?
    Your Christmas or Mine?

    6.4 2022 HD

    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...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Asa Butterfield

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  • 1972
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    In the Beautiful Caribbean
    In the Beautiful Caribbean

    1 1972 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Calvin Lockhart

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  • 2023
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    Your Christmas or Mine 2
    Your Christmas or Mine 2

    6.3 2023 HD

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

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Asa Butterfield

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  • 1970
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    Take a Girl Like You
    Take a Girl Like You

    5.4 1970 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Oliver Reed

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  • 2005
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    Hex
    Hex

    6.224 2005 HD

    The show opens with a girl who yearns to be popular and liked in her school. She wishes she was in the "in-crowd", however, she goes about unnoticed...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Amber Sainsbury

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  • 1995
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    Porkpie
    Porkpie

    6 1995 HD

    Porkpie was a British sitcom on Channel 4 television starring Ram John Holder as Augustus "Porkpie" Grant. It was a spinoff from Desmond's. Porkpie...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ram John Holder

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  • 1994
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    Desmond's
    Desmond's

    7.115 1994 HD

    Desmond's was a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994. With 71 episodes, Desmond's became Channel 4's...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Carmen Munroe

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  • 2010
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    Heartbeat
    Heartbeat

    7 2010 HD

    Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Derek Fowlds

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  • 1983
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    BBC Play of the Month
    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1983 HD

    Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 2012
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    White Van Man
    White Van Man

    6.667 2012 HD

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

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Clive Mantle

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  • 2024
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    Casualty
    Casualty

    5.771 2024 HD

    Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: William Beck

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  • 2024
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    Death in Paradise
    Death in Paradise

    7.45 2024 HD

    A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ralf Little

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  • 2024
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    Casualty
    Casualty

    5.771 2024 HD

    Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: William Beck

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  • 1998
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    Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
    Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

    6.923 1998 HD

    Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Patricia Routledge

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  • 2009
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    Beautiful People
    Beautiful People

    7.4 2009 HD

    Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan. The series takes place...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Luke Ward-Wilkinson

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