Ram John Holder
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
Acted in
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023
as Grandad
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
as Grandad
City of Tiny Lights
2016
as Trinidad Pete
Song for Marion
2012
as Charlie
Death in Paradise
2011
as Nelson Myers
White Van Man
2011
as Uncle Phil
Beautiful People
2008
as Big Barry
Joy Division
2006
as Neville
Hex
2004
The Calcium Kid
2004
as Jamaican Barber
Lucky Break
2001
as Old Billy Morris
Virtual Sexuality
1999
as Declan
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
as Chalky White
Porkpie
1995
as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
O Mary This London
1994
as Neville
In Dreams
1992
as Uncle Norman
The Jazz Detective
1992
as Silver
Heartbeat
1992
as Danny Flowers
Missing Persons
1990
as Chalky White
Desmond's
1989
as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
Playing Away
1987
as Wilf
Casualty
1986
as George
Casualty
1986
as Vivian House
Half Moon Street
1986
as Lindsay Walker
The Passion of Remembrance
1986
as Benjy Baptiste
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985
as Poet
Playboy of the West Indies
1985
as Mac
Britannia Hospital
1982
as Radical
Cuba
1979
as Fat Sergeant
Roadrunner
1977
as Trevor Ford
Pressure
1976
as Brother John
The Education of Sonny Carson
1974
as Preacher
Man Friday
1972
as Man Friday
In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972
as Bredda Ordinance
Leo the Last
1970
as Black Preacher
Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969
as Marcus
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Friday