Ram John Holder

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Ram John Holder is a British actor of Guyanese origin (born in Guyana in 1934). 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 Negro preacher in the 1969 comedy feature 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 (d. Stephen Frears, 1985) as a poet and appeared in the Sankofa Film and Video's debut feature The Passion of Remembrance in 1986.[1] Holder played the role of Porkpie in hit comedy series Desmond's which was written by Trix Worrell and broadcast on Channel 4 from 1989 until 1994. He later had his own spin-off series Porkpie when Desmond's came to an end. 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 date was as Slow Drag in the 2006 revival of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester Holder is a talented musician[2] who has recorded a number of albums; Black London Blues (1969), Bootleg

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Black London Blues

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Looking Back - Mod, Freakbeat & Swinging London Nuggets

Bootleg Blues

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Let's copp a groove

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Gotta Get A Good Thing Goin': The Music Of Black Britain In The Sixties

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Deviation Street: High Times In Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975

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Buried Treasures: 15 Key Tracks from the Greatest Albums You'd Never Heard

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I Just Come To Get My Baby / Yes I Do

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Let's Cop A Groove

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Looking Back: 80 Mod, Freakbeat & Swinging London Nuggets

Black London Blues / Bootleg Blues

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100 Great Singles Of The 1960s (That Haven't Been Played To Death On Oldies Radio)

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