Ram John Holder
Biography: 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
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1934
Deathday: N/A
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Joy Division
2006-11-17
Joy Division
Overview: 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 during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-17
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In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972-02-03
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Overview: Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-03
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Missing Persons
1990-05-30
Missing Persons
Overview: During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. When this gives her a taste for detection, Hetty decides to set up a private detective agency.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-30
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Half Moon Street
1986-08-13
Half Moon Street
Overview: 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 moonlighting at the Jasmine Escort Service, where she has more control over men and money than she does at the office. On one of her 'dates', Lauren meets the politician Lord Bulbeck who is trying to mediate a peace accord between the Arabs and Israelis. Bulbeck falls in love with his escort, and unwittingly, Lauren becomes a pawn in some very dirty politics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-13
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The Education of Sonny Carson
1974-07-17
The Education of Sonny Carson
Overview: 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 his release from prison he changes his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-17
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Song for Marion
2012-09-15
Song for Marion
Overview: 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. But choir director Elizabeth sees something special in the reluctant Arthur and refuses to give up on him. As she coaxes him out of his shell, Arthur realizes that it is never too late to change.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-15
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Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023-12-07
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Overview: They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent family Christmas or has their future together gone off-piste?!
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-07
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Your Christmas or Mine?
2022-12-02
Your Christmas or Mine?
Overview: 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. Passing each other in the station, they are completely unaware that they have just swapped Christmases.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-02
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The Jazz Detective
1992-04-27
The Jazz Detective
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-27
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In Dreams
1992-12-23
In Dreams
Overview: Lenny has some perplexing dreams.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-23
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My Beautiful Laundrette
1985-11-16
My Beautiful Laundrette
Overview: A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-16
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Leo the Last
1970-09-04
Leo the Last
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-04
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Virtual Sexuality
1999-07-02
Virtual Sexuality
Overview: A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accident, gives him life.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-02
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Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969-09-17
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Overview: An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-17
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The Calcium Kid
2004-04-30
The Calcium Kid
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-30
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Britannia Hospital
1982-05-27
Britannia Hospital
Overview: Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-27
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Lucky Break
2001-08-24
Lucky Break
Overview: 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. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival of a nasty inmate, John Toombes, who insists on joining the escape, and Jimmy's feelings of attraction for Anabel, a social worker who agrees to appear in the play. Opening night approaches: is this Jimmy's breakout performance?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-24
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Cuba
1979-12-21
Cuba
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Thriller Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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Pressure
1976-11-19
Pressure
Overview: A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-19
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Playing Away
1987-01-02
Playing Away
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-02
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Man Friday
1972-10-30
Man Friday
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-30
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Roadrunner
1977-07-05
Roadrunner
Overview: 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 simple one of his family in North London, leading to considerable tension.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-05
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Playboy of the West Indies
1985-10-13
Playboy of the West Indies
Overview: 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 much happens in Mayaro until a handsome young stranger appears and insists that he has just murdered his father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-13
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City of Tiny Lights
2016-09-12
City of Tiny Lights
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-12
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The Passion of Remembrance
1986-01-02
The Passion of Remembrance
Overview: 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. Set within an isolated desert landscape contrasted with recognizable scenes of the intensity of family life, this vanguard work demonstrates the richness and variety of the black experience; it is a poetic and hard-hitting commentary on the complexities of race, gender and sexuality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-02
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O Mary This London
1994-03-30
O Mary This London
Overview: 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 adventures quickly turn sour.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-30
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