Ram John Holder
Acting
1934-01-01 · 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
Filmography
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023 · Movie
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022 · Movie
City of Tiny Lights
2016 · Movie
Song for Marion
2012 · Movie
Death in Paradise
2011 · Series
White Van Man
2011 · Series
Beautiful People
2008 · Series
Joy Division
2006 · Movie
Stupid!
2004 · Series
Hex
2004 · Series
The Calcium Kid
2004 · Movie
The Story of Tracy Beaker
2002 · Series
Lucky Break
2001 · Movie
Virtual Sexuality
1999 · Movie
Porkpie
1995 · Series
O Mary This London
1994 · Movie
In Dreams
1992 · Movie
The Jazz Detective
1992 · Movie
Heartbeat
1992 · Series
Missing Persons
1990 · Movie
Desmond's
1989 · Series
The Fear
1988 · Series
Rockliffe's Babies
1987 · Series
Playing Away
1987 · Movie
Casualty
1986 · Series
Half Moon Street
1986 · Movie
The Passion of Remembrance
1986 · Movie
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985 · Movie
Playboy of the West Indies
1985 · Movie
Britannia Hospital
1982 · Movie
Cuba
1979 · Movie
Roadrunner
1977 · Movie
Pressure
1976 · Movie
Robinson Crusoe
1974 · Movie
The Education of Sonny Carson
1974 · Movie
Man Friday
1972 · Movie
In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972 · Movie
Take a Girl Like You
1970 · Movie
Leo the Last
1970 · Movie
Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969 · Movie
Plays of Today
1969 · Series
The Jazz Age
1968 · Series
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Series
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series