Ram John Holder
ActingGuyanese 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
Movies
Grandad
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023
Grandad
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
Trinidad Pete
City of Tiny Lights
2016
Charlie
Song for Marion
2012
Neville
Joy Division
2006
Jamaican Barber
The Calcium Kid
2004
Old Billy Morris
Lucky Break
2001
Declan
Virtual Sexuality
1999
Neville
O Mary This London
1994
Silver
The Jazz Detective
1992
Chalky White
Missing Persons
1990
Wilf
Playing Away
1987
Lindsay Walker
Half Moon Street
1986
Benjy Baptiste
The Passion of Remembrance
1986
Poet
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985
Radical
Britannia Hospital
1982
Fat Sergeant
Cuba
1979
Trevor Ford
Roadrunner
1977
Brother John
Pressure
1976
Friday
Robinson Crusoe
1974
TV Shows
Nelson Myers
Death in Paradise
2011
Uncle Phil
White Van Man
2011
Big Barry
Beautiful People
2008
Voodoo Priest
Hex
2004
'Flying' Freddie Mercer
The Story of Tracy Beaker
2002
Danny Flowers
Heartbeat
1992
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
Desmond's
1989
Cuke
The Fear
1988
Wiley Hillam
Rockliffe's Babies
1987
George
Casualty
1986
Vivian House
Casualty
1986
Trevor Ford
ITV Playhouse
1967
Friday
BBC Play of the Month
1965