Ram John Holder
January 1, 1934 (90 years old) in 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
Known For
Credits
- 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
- 2011 · White Van Man as Uncle Phil
- 2008 · Beautiful People as Big Barry
- 2006 · Joy Division as Neville
- 2004 · Hex as
- 2004 · The Calcium Kid as Jamaican Barber
- 2001 · Lucky Break as Old Billy Morris
- 1999 · Virtual Sexuality as Declan
- 1996 · Hetty Wainthropp Investigates as Chalky White
- 1995 · Porkpie as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
- 1994 · O Mary This London as Neville
- 1992 · In Dreams as Uncle Norman
- 1992 · The Jazz Detective as Silver
- 1992 · Heartbeat as Danny Flowers
- 1990 · Missing Persons as Chalky White
- 1989 · Desmond's as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
- 1987 · Playing Away as Wilf
- 1986 · Casualty as George
- 1986 · Casualty as Vivian House
- 1986 · Half Moon Street as Lindsay Walker
- 1986 · The Passion of Remembrance as Benjy Baptiste
- 1985 · My Beautiful Laundrette as Poet
- 1985 · 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
- 1972 · In the Beautiful Caribbean as Bredda Ordinance
- 1970 · Leo the Last as Black Preacher
- 1969 · Two Gentlemen Sharing as Marcus
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Friday