Ram John Holder
Acting • Born 1934-01-01
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
Filmography
41 credits
Joy Division
Movie • 2006
Neville
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Movie • 1972
Bredda Ordinance
Missing Persons
Movie • 1990
Chalky White
Half Moon Street
Movie • 1986
Lindsay Walker
The Education of Sonny Carson
Movie • 1974
Preacher
Song for Marion
Movie • 2012
Charlie
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Movie • 2023
Grandad
Your Christmas or Mine?
Movie • 2022
Grandad
The Jazz Detective
Movie • 1992
Silver
In Dreams
Movie • 1992
Uncle Norman
My Beautiful Laundrette
Movie • 1985
Poet
Virtual Sexuality
Movie • 1999
Declan
Leo the Last
Movie • 1970
Black Preacher
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Movie • 1969
Marcus
The Calcium Kid
Movie • 2004
Jamaican Barber
Lucky Break
Movie • 2001
Old Billy Morris
Cuba
Movie • 1979
Fat Sergeant
Britannia Hospital
Movie • 1982
Radical
Pressure
Movie • 1976
Brother John
Playing Away
Movie • 1987
Wilf
Man Friday
Movie • 1972
Man Friday
Roadrunner
Movie • 1977
Trevor Ford
Playboy of the West Indies
Movie • 1985
Mac
City of Tiny Lights
Movie • 2016
Trinidad Pete
The Passion of Remembrance
Movie • 1986
Benjy Baptiste
O Mary This London
Movie • 1994
Neville
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Danny Flowers
Hex
TV • 2004
Porkpie
TV • 1995
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
Desmond's
TV • 1989
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
White Van Man
TV • 2011
Uncle Phil
Casualty
TV • 1986
George
Beautiful People
TV • 2008
Big Barry
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
Nelson Myers
Casualty
TV • 1986
Vivian House
The Story of Tracy Beaker
TV • 2002
'Flying' Freddie Mercer
Stupid!
TV • 2004
Various Characters
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Friday
The Jazz Age
TV • 1968
Rockliffe's Babies
TV • 1987
Wiley Hillam
The Fear
TV • 1988
Cuke