Ram John Holder
Born: 1934-01-01 in Georgetown, British Guiana
Known For: Acting
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
Filmography
2023
- Your Christmas or Mine 2 as Grandad
2022
- Your Christmas or Mine? as Grandad
2016
- City of Tiny Lights as Trinidad Pete
2012
- Song for Marion as Charlie
2011
- Death in Paradise as Nelson Myers
- White Van Man as Uncle Phil
2008
- Beautiful People as Big Barry
2006
- Joy Division as Neville
2004
- Hex
- The Calcium Kid as Jamaican Barber
- Stupid! as Various Characters
2002
- The Story of Tracy Beaker as 'Flying' Freddie Mercer
2001
- Lucky Break as Old Billy Morris
1999
- Virtual Sexuality as Declan
1995
- Porkpie as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
1994
- O Mary This London as Neville
1992
- Heartbeat as Danny Flowers
- The Jazz Detective as Silver
- In Dreams as Uncle Norman
1990
- Missing Persons as Chalky White
1989
- Desmond's as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
1987
- Rockliffe's Babies as Wiley Hillam
- Playing Away as Wilf
1986
- Casualty as George
- Half Moon Street as Lindsay Walker
- The Passion of Remembrance as Benjy Baptiste
1985
- My Beautiful Laundrette as Poet
- Playboy of the West Indies as Mac
1982
- Britannia Hospital as Radical
1979
- Cuba as Fat Sergeant
1977
- Roadrunner as Trevor Ford
1976
- Pressure as Brother John
1974
- The Education of Sonny Carson as Preacher
1972
- Man Friday as Man Friday
- In the Beautiful Caribbean as Bredda Ordinance
1970
- Leo the Last as Black Preacher
- Take a Girl Like You ... (Musician)
1969
- Two Gentlemen Sharing as Marcus
1968
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Friday