Ram John Holder
Acting
Born: 1934-01-01 · Georgetown, British Guiana
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
🎬 Movies (20)
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023
Grandad
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
Grandad
City of Tiny Lights
2016
Trinidad Pete
Song for Marion
2012
Charlie
Joy Division
2006
Neville
The Calcium Kid
2004
Jamaican Barber
Lucky Break
2001
Old Billy Morris
Virtual Sexuality
1999
Declan
O Mary This London
1994
Neville
In Dreams
1992
Uncle Norman
The Jazz Detective
1992
Silver
Missing Persons
1990
Chalky White
Playing Away
1987
Wilf
Half Moon Street
1986
Lindsay Walker
The Passion of Remembrance
1986
Benjy Baptiste
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985
Poet
Playboy of the West Indies
1985
Mac
Britannia Hospital
1982
Radical
Cuba
1979
Fat Sergeant
Roadrunner
1977
Trevor Ford
📺 TV Shows (17)
Death in Paradise
2011
Nelson Myers
White Van Man
2011
Uncle Phil
Beautiful People
2008
Big Barry
Stupid!
2004
Various Characters
Hex
2004
Voodoo Priest
The Story of Tracy Beaker
2002
'Flying' Freddie Mercer
Porkpie
1995
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
Heartbeat
1992
Danny Flowers
Desmond's
1989
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
The Fear
1988
Cuke
Rockliffe's Babies
1987
Wiley Hillam
Casualty
1986
George
Casualty
1986
Vivian House
Plays of Today
1969
Kahami
The Jazz Age
1968
ITV Playhouse
1967
Trevor Ford
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Friday