Ram John Holder
Georgetown, British Guiana
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
Appearances
5.2
Joy Division
Neville
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Bredda Ordinance
4.0
Missing Persons
Chalky White
5.1
Half Moon Street
Lindsay Walker
5.7
The Education of Sonny Carson
Preacher
6.8
Song for Marion
Charlie
6.2
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Grandad
6.4
Your Christmas or Mine?
Grandad
7.0
The Jazz Detective
Silver
In Dreams
8.5
In Dreams
Uncle Norman
6.7
My Beautiful Laundrette
Poet
5.3
Virtual Sexuality
Declan
5.3
Leo the Last
Black Preacher
5.5
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Marcus
5.5
The Calcium Kid
Jamaican Barber
6.2
Lucky Break
Old Billy Morris
5.5
Cuba
Fat Sergeant
6.3
Britannia Hospital
Radical
6.4
Pressure
Brother John
6.0
Playing Away
Wilf
9.0
Man Friday
Man Friday
Roadrunner
Trevor Ford
Playboy of the West Indies
Playboy of the West Indies
Mac
5.2
City of Tiny Lights
Trinidad Pete
The Passion of Remembrance
Benjy Baptiste
8.0
O Mary This London
Neville
7.0
Robinson Crusoe
Friday
7.2
Heartbeat
Danny Flowers
Porkpie
7.0
Porkpie
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
7.3
Desmond's
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
6.7
White Van Man
Uncle Phil
6.2
Casualty
George
6.8
Beautiful People
Big Barry
7.5
Death in Paradise
Nelson Myers
6.2
Casualty
Vivian House
6.5
The Story of Tracy Beaker
'Flying' Freddie Mercer
Stupid!
7.0
Stupid!
Various Characters
5.3
BBC Play of the Month
Friday
The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age
5.8
Rockliffe's Babies
Wiley Hillam
5.0
The Fear
Cuke
6.4
Hex
Voodoo Priest
7.0
ITV Playhouse
Trevor Ford