Ram John Holder
Biography
Born in Georgetown, Guyana, Ram John Holder is an actor and musician known for his stage, film, and television work in Britain. After singing folk music in New York, he settled in London in 1962, first as a musician with Pearl Connor's Negro Theatre Workshop and then as an actor, later performing at the National Theatre, the Donmar Warehouse, and the Bristol Old Vic. On film, his early parts included a dancer in Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969) and a preacher in Leo the Last (1970), for which he also sang; he played a poet in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and appeared in Virtual Sexuality (1999), Lucky Break (2001), Song for Marion (2012), and Your Christmas or Mine? (2022). Television brought him wide notice as Augustus Porkpie Grant in the Channel 4 sitcom Desmond's, and he later starred in the spin-off Porkpie. In 2021 he was appointed CBE for services to drama and music.
92years old
Turns 93 on February 2in 84 days
- Born Georgetown
- Star sign: AquariusThe sign runs January 20 to February 18
- Also credited as John Wesley Holder
Movie Career
- Films
- 9
- Career span
- 53 years1970 to 2023
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First role
Holder's first major film role came in 1969 as Marcus, an effeminate dancer, in Ted Kotcheff's Two Gentlemen Sharing, a film about interracial relations in swinging London.
Beyond film
Holder sang the vocals for the theme tune of series 15 of Death in Paradise, a 2026 series. The tune was heard on the 2025 special and the 2026 series finale.
Ram John Holder movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Jim O'Hanlon directed two of these films. Eight actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Jim O'HanlonDirector, 2 films, 2022 to 2023
All films by Jim O'Hanlon
Also two films together2 more actors
- Cora KirkYour Christmas or Mine 2 (2023) and Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
- Natalie GumedeYour Christmas or Mine 2 (2023) and Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Online
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