Ram John Holder
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
TV Shows(15)
Death in Paradise
Nelson Myers
2011
White Van Man
Uncle Phil
2011
Beautiful People
Big Barry
2008
Stupid!
Various Characters
2004
Hex
Voodoo Priest
2004
The Story of Tracy Beaker
'Flying' Freddie Mercer
2002
Porkpie
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
1995
Heartbeat
Danny Flowers
1992
Desmond's
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
1989
The Fear
Cuke
1988
Rockliffe's Babies
Wiley Hillam
1987
Casualty
George
1986
The Jazz Age
1968
ITV Playhouse
Trevor Ford
1967
BBC Play of the Month
Friday
1965
Movies(27)
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Grandad
2023
Your Christmas or Mine?
Grandad
2022
City of Tiny Lights
Trinidad Pete
2016
Song for Marion
Charlie
2012
Joy Division
Neville
2006
The Calcium Kid
Jamaican Barber
2004
Lucky Break
Old Billy Morris
2001
Virtual Sexuality
Declan
1999
O Mary This London
Neville
1994
In Dreams
Uncle Norman
1992
The Jazz Detective
Silver
1992
Missing Persons
Chalky White
1990
Playing Away
Wilf
1987
Half Moon Street
Lindsay Walker
1986
The Passion of Remembrance
Benjy Baptiste
1986
My Beautiful Laundrette
Poet
1985
Playboy of the West Indies
Mac
1985
Britannia Hospital
Radical
1982
Cuba
Fat Sergeant
1979
Roadrunner
Trevor Ford
1977
Pressure
Brother John
1976
Robinson Crusoe
Friday
1974
The Education of Sonny Carson
Preacher
1974
Man Friday
Man Friday
1972
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Bredda Ordinance
1972
Leo the Last
Black Preacher
1970
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Marcus
1969