Ram John Holder
Birthday
1934/01/01 (91 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Georgetown, British Guiana
Also know as
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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
Acting
(2006) Joy Division
as Neville
(1972) In the Beautiful Caribbean
as Bredda Ordinance
(1990) Missing Persons
as Chalky White
(1986) Half Moon Street
as Lindsay Walker
(1974) The Education of Sonny Carson
as Preacher
(2012) Song for Marion
as Charlie
(2023) Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Grandad
(2022) Your Christmas or Mine?
as Grandad
(1992) The Jazz Detective
as Silver
(1992) In Dreams
as Uncle Norman
(1985) My Beautiful Laundrette
as Poet
(1970) Leo the Last
as Black Preacher
(1999) Virtual Sexuality
as Declan
(1969) Two Gentlemen Sharing
as Marcus
(2004) The Calcium Kid
as Jamaican Barber
(1982) Britannia Hospital
as Radical
(2001) Lucky Break
as Old Billy Morris
(1979) Cuba
as Fat Sergeant
(1976) Pressure
as Brother John
(1987) Playing Away
as Wilf
(1972) Man Friday
as Man Friday
(1977) Roadrunner
as Trevor Ford
(1985) Playboy of the West Indies
as Mac
(2016) City of Tiny Lights
as Trinidad Pete
(1986) The Passion of Remembrance
as Benjy Baptiste
(1994) O Mary This London
as Neville
(1992) Heartbeat
as Danny Flowers
(2004) Hex
as ---
(1995) Porkpie
as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
(1989) Desmond's
as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Friday
(2011) White Van Man
as Uncle Phil
(1986) Casualty
as George
(2008) Beautiful People
as Big Barry
(2011) Death in Paradise
as Nelson Myers
(1986) Casualty
as Vivian House
(1996) Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Chalky White