Ram John Holder
Known for: Acting
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
Filmography
Series
Death in Paradise
Nelson Myers
2011
Series
Casualty
George
1986
Series
Casualty
Vivian House
1986
Series
BBC Play of the Month
Friday
1965
Series
Heartbeat
Danny Flowers
1992
Series
ITV Playhouse
Trevor Ford
1967
Series
The Story of Tracy Beaker
'Flying' Freddie Mercer
2002
Series
Hex
Voodoo Priest
2004
Series
Desmond's
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
1989
The Jazz Age
1968
Series
Rockliffe's Babies
Wiley Hillam
1987
Series
Beautiful People
Big Barry
2008
Porkpie
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
1995
Film
Joy Division
Neville
2006
Series
White Van Man
Uncle Phil
2011
Series
The Fear
Cuke
1988
Film
Song for Marion
Charlie
2012
Stupid!
Various Characters
2004
Film
Your Christmas or Mine?
Grandad
2022
Plays of Today
Kahami
1969
Film
My Beautiful Laundrette
Poet
1985
Film
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Grandad
2023
Film
Cuba
Fat Sergeant
1979
Film
Half Moon Street
Lindsay Walker
1986
Film
The Calcium Kid
Jamaican Barber
2004
Film
Virtual Sexuality
Declan
1999
Film
City of Tiny Lights
Trinidad Pete
2016
Film
Britannia Hospital
Radical
1982
Film
Lucky Break
Old Billy Morris
2001
Film
The Education of Sonny Carson
Preacher
1974
Film
O Mary This London
Neville
1994
Film
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Bredda Ordinance
1972
Film
Robinson Crusoe
Friday
1974
Film
Man Friday
Man Friday
1972
Film
Leo the Last
Black Preacher
1970
Film
The Passion of Remembrance
Benjy Baptiste
1986
Film
Pressure
Brother John
1976
Playboy of the West Indies
Mac
1985
Film
Playing Away
Wilf
1987
Film
Missing Persons
Chalky White
1990
Film
The Jazz Detective
Silver
1992
In Dreams
Uncle Norman
1992
Film
Roadrunner
Trevor Ford
1977
Film
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Marcus
1969