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







