
Acting
Ram John Holder
Acting · Born 1934-01-01 · Georgetown, British Guiana
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
Credits · 40
FilmYour Christmas or Mine 2
2023 · Grandad
FilmYour Christmas or Mine?
2022 · Grandad
FilmCity of Tiny Lights
2016 · Trinidad Pete
FilmSong for Marion
2012 · Charlie

Death in Paradise
2011 · Nelson Myers

White Van Man
2011 · Uncle Phil

Beautiful People
2008 · Big Barry
FilmJoy Division
2006 · Neville
Stupid!
Stupid!
2004 · Various Characters

Hex
2004 · Voodoo Priest
FilmThe Calcium Kid
2004 · Jamaican Barber

The Story of Tracy Beaker
2002 · 'Flying' Freddie Mercer
FilmLucky Break
2001 · Old Billy Morris
FilmVirtual Sexuality
1999 · Declan
Porkpie
Porkpie
1995 · Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
FilmO Mary This London
1994 · Neville
In Dreams
FilmIn Dreams
1992 · Uncle Norman
FilmThe Jazz Detective
1992 · Silver

Heartbeat
1992 · Danny Flowers
FilmMissing Persons
1990 · Chalky White

Desmond's
1989 · Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant

The Fear
1988 · Cuke

Rockliffe's Babies
1987 · Wiley Hillam
FilmPlaying Away
1987 · Wilf

Casualty
1986 · George
FilmHalf Moon Street
1986 · Lindsay Walker
FilmMy Beautiful Laundrette
1985 · Poet
FilmBritannia Hospital
1982 · Radical
FilmCuba
1979 · Fat Sergeant
FilmPressure
1976 · Brother John
FilmRobinson Crusoe
1974 · Friday
FilmThe Education of Sonny Carson
1974 · Preacher
FilmMan Friday
1972 · Man Friday
FilmTake a Girl Like You
1970 · Musician
FilmLeo the Last
1970 · Black Preacher
FilmTwo Gentlemen Sharing
1969 · Marcus
Plays of Today
Plays of Today
1969 · Kahami
The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age
1968

ITV Playhouse
1967 · Trevor Ford

BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Friday