
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
Born: January 1, 1934 · Georgetown, British Guiana
Filmography (26)

Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023
Actor: Grandad

Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
Actor: Grandad

City of Tiny Lights
2016
Actor: Trinidad Pete

Song for Marion
2012
Actor: Charlie

TV
Death in Paradise
2011
Actor: Nelson Myers

TV
White Van Man
2011
Actor: Uncle Phil

TV
Beautiful People
2008
Actor: Big Barry

Joy Division
2006
Actor: Neville

TV
Hex
2004
Actor

The Calcium Kid
2004
Actor: Jamaican Barber

TV
The Story of Tracy Beaker
2002
Actor: 'Flying' Freddie M…

Lucky Break
2001
Actor: Old Billy Morris

Virtual Sexuality
1999
Actor: Declan

TV
Heartbeat
1992
Actor: Danny Flowers

TV
Desmond's
1989
Actor: Augustus 'Porkpie'…

TV
Rockliffe's Babies
1987
Actor: Wiley Hillam

TV
Casualty
1986
Actor: GeorgeActor: Vivian House

Half Moon Street
1986
Actor: Lindsay Walker

My Beautiful Laundrette
1985
Actor: Poet

Britannia Hospital
1982
Actor: Radical

Cuba
1979
Actor: Fat Sergeant

Pressure
1976
Actor: Brother John

The Education of Sonny Carson
1974
Actor: Preacher

Take a Girl Like You
1970
Musician

Leo the Last
1970
Actor: Black PreacherSongs+1

TV
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Actor: Friday
