Ram John Holder
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
42 acting credits
Acting · 42
Death in Paradise
2011
Casualty
1986
Heartbeat
1992
BBC Play of the Month
1965
ITV Playhouse
1967
The Story of Tracy Beaker
2002
Hex
2004
Desmond's
1989
The Jazz Age
1968
Beautiful People
2008
Rockliffe's Babies
1987
White Van Man
2011
The Fear
1988
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985
Joy Division
2006
Cuba
1979
Stupid!
2004
Half Moon Street
1986
The Calcium Kid
2004
Porkpie
1995
Song for Marion
2012
Britannia Hospital
1982
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023
Lucky Break
2001
City of Tiny Lights
2016
Leo the Last
1970
Virtual Sexuality
1999
The Education of Sonny Carson
1974
Playing Away
1987
The Jazz Detective
1992
O Mary This London
1994
Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969
Pressure
1976
The Passion of Remembrance
1986
In Dreams
1992
Playboy of the West Indies
1985
Man Friday
1972
Missing Persons
1990
In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972
Roadrunner
1977
Robinson Crusoe
1974