Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 01, 1934
Place of Birth
Georgetown, British Guiana
Credits
44 titles
Ram John Holder
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
Known For
Filmography
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Grandad
Your Christmas or Mine?
Grandad
City of Tiny Lights
Trinidad Pete
Song for Marion
Charlie
Death in Paradise
Nelson Myers
White Van Man
Uncle Phil
Beautiful People
Big Barry
Joy Division
Neville
Stupid!
Various Characters
Hex
Voodoo Priest
The Calcium Kid
Jamaican Barber
The Story of Tracy Beaker
'Flying' Freddie Mercer
Lucky Break
Old Billy Morris
Virtual Sexuality
Declan
Porkpie
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
O Mary This London
Neville
In Dreams
Uncle Norman
The Jazz Detective
Silver
Heartbeat
Danny Flowers
Missing Persons
Chalky White
Desmond's
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
The Fear
Cuke
Rockliffe's Babies
Wiley Hillam
Playing Away
Wilf
Casualty
George
Half Moon Street
Lindsay Walker
The Passion of Remembrance
Benjy Baptiste
My Beautiful Laundrette
Poet
Playboy of the West Indies
Mac
Britannia Hospital
Radical
Cuba
Fat Sergeant
Roadrunner
Trevor Ford
Pressure
Brother John
Robinson Crusoe
Friday
The Education of Sonny Carson
Preacher
Man Friday
Man Friday
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Bredda Ordinance
Take a Girl Like You
Musician
Leo the Last
Black Preacher
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Marcus
Plays of Today
Kahami
The Jazz Age
ITV Playhouse
Trevor Ford
BBC Play of the Month
Friday