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
Known For
Death in Paradise
Casualty
Casualty
Heartbeat
BBC Play of the Month
ITV Playhouse
The Story of Tracy Beaker
Hex
All Movies (27)
- Your Christmas or Mine 22023 · as Grandad
- Your Christmas or Mine?2022 · as Grandad
- City of Tiny Lights2016 · as Trinidad Pete
- Song for Marion2012 · as Charlie
- Joy Division2006 · as Neville
- The Calcium Kid2004 · as Jamaican Barber
- Lucky Break2001 · as Old Billy Morris
- Virtual Sexuality1999 · as Declan
- O Mary This London1994 · as Neville
- In Dreams1992 · as Uncle Norman
- The Jazz Detective1992 · as Silver
- Missing Persons1990 · as Chalky White
- Playing Away1987 · as Wilf
- Half Moon Street1986 · as Lindsay Walker
- The Passion of Remembrance1986 · as Benjy Baptiste
- My Beautiful Laundrette1985 · as Poet
- Playboy of the West Indies1985 · as Mac
- Britannia Hospital1982 · as Radical
- Cuba1979 · as Fat Sergeant
- Roadrunner1977 · as Trevor Ford
- Pressure1976 · as Brother John
- Robinson Crusoe1974 · as Friday
- The Education of Sonny Carson1974 · as Preacher
- Man Friday1972 · as Man Friday
- In the Beautiful Caribbean1972 · as Bredda Ordinance
- Leo the Last1970 · as Black Preacher
- Two Gentlemen Sharing1969 · as Marcus
All TV Shows (17)
- Death in Paradise2011 · as Nelson Myers
- White Van Man2011 · as Uncle Phil
- Beautiful People2008 · as Big Barry
- Stupid!2004 · as Various Characters
- Hex2004 · as Voodoo Priest
- The Story of Tracy Beaker2002 · as 'Flying' Freddie Mercer
- Porkpie1995 · as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
- Heartbeat1992 · as Danny Flowers
- Desmond's1989 · as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
- The Fear1988 · as Cuke
- Rockliffe's Babies1987 · as Wiley Hillam
- Casualty1986 · as George
- Casualty1986 · as Vivian House
- Plays of Today1969 · as Kahami
- The Jazz Age1968
- ITV Playhouse1967 · as Trevor Ford
- BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Friday