Ram John Holder
Acting
Born: 1934-01-01 in Georgetown, British Guiana
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
Death in Paradise
Nelson Myers
My Beautiful Laundrette
Poet
Your Christmas or Mine?
Grandad
Song for Marion
Charlie
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Grandad
Casualty
George
Casualty
Vivian House
City of Tiny Lights
Trinidad Pete
Britannia Hospital
Radical
Hex
Voodoo Priest
The Calcium Kid
Jamaican Barber
Half Moon Street
Lindsay Walker
Virtual Sexuality
Declan
Cuba
Fat Sergeant
Lucky Break
Old Billy Morris
Heartbeat
Danny Flowers
The Story of Tracy Beaker
'Flying' Freddie Mercer
Joy Division
Neville
Beautiful People
Big Barry
Leo the Last
Black Preacher
Desmond's
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
White Van Man
Uncle Phil
Pressure
Brother John
The Education of Sonny Carson
Preacher
BBC Play of the Month
Friday
Playing Away
Wilf
Rockliffe's Babies
Wiley Hillam
ITV Playhouse
Trevor Ford
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Marcus
Robinson Crusoe
Friday
Video Stars
Doc Shadow
Stupid!
Various Characters
Missing Persons
Chalky White
The Jazz Detective
Silver
Man Friday
Man Friday
O Mary This London
Neville
The Fear
Cuke
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Bredda Ordinance