Ram John Holder Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Ram John Holder (born 1934, Guyana) is a British actor. He began his performing career as a folk singer in New York. In 1962 he came to London and worked with Pearl Connor's Negro Theatre Workshop initially as a musician, and later as an actor. His theatre career saw him perform on the major stages in London such as the Royal National Theatre, the Donmar Warehouse and Bristol Old Vic. John Boorman cast him as the black preacher in the 1969 comedy film, Leo the Last, about race relations that was set in a Notting Hill slum in West London. He also sang the songs in the film. He again played... MORE

Ram John Holder (born 1934, Guyana) is a British actor. He began his performing career as a folk singer in New York. In 1962 he came to London and worked with Pearl Connor's Negro Theatre Workshop initially as a musician, and later as an actor. His theatre career saw him perform on the major stages in London such as the Royal National Theatre, the Donmar Warehouse and Bristol Old Vic. John Boorman cast him as the black preacher in the 1969 comedy film, Leo the Last, about race relations that was set in a Notting Hill slum in West London. He also sang the songs in the film. He again played a preacher in the Horace Ové directed film Pressure in 1975, made a cameo performance in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) as a poet, and appeared in the Sankofa Film and Video's debut feature The Passion of Remembrance in 1986. Holder played the role of Porkpie in the situation comedy Desmond's, which was written by Trix Worrell, and broadcast on Channel 4 from 1989 until 1994. He later had his own short-lived spin-off series Porkpie. Holder has appeared in several television productions and joined the cast of EastEnders in late September 2006, playing Cedric Lucas. His last stage performance to LESS