Acting · Georgetown, British Guiana · Born January 1, 1934
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
MovieYour Christmas or Mine 2
2023
as Grandad
MovieYour Christmas or Mine?
2022
as Grandad
MovieCity of Tiny Lights
2016
as Trinidad Pete
MovieSong for Marion
2012
as Charlie
TVDeath in Paradise
2011
as Nelson Myers
TVWhite Van Man
2011
as Uncle Phil
TVBeautiful People
2008
as Big Barry
MovieJoy Division
2006
as Neville
Stupid!
2004
as Various Characters
TVHex
2004
as Voodoo Priest
MovieThe Calcium Kid
2004
as Jamaican Barber
TVThe Story of Tracy Beaker
2002
as 'Flying' Freddie Mercer
MovieLucky Break
2001
as Old Billy Morris
MovieVirtual Sexuality
1999
as Declan
Porkpie
1995
as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
MovieO Mary This London
1994
as Neville
In Dreams
1992
as Uncle Norman
MovieThe Jazz Detective
1992
as Silver
TVHeartbeat
1992
as Danny Flowers
MovieMissing Persons
1990
as Chalky White
TVDesmond's
1989
as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
TVThe Fear
1988
as Cuke
TVRockliffe's Babies
1987
as Wiley Hillam
MoviePlaying Away
1987
as Wilf
TVCasualty
1986
as George
MovieHalf Moon Street
1986
as Lindsay Walker
MovieThe Passion of Remembrance
1986
as Benjy Baptiste
MovieMy Beautiful Laundrette
1985
as Poet
Playboy of the West Indies
1985
as Mac
MovieBritannia Hospital
1982
as Radical
MovieCuba
1979
as Fat Sergeant
MovieRoadrunner
1977
as Trevor Ford
MoviePressure
1976
as Brother John
MovieRobinson Crusoe
1974
as Friday
MovieThe Education of Sonny Carson
1974
as Preacher
MovieMan Friday
1972
as Man Friday
MovieIn the Beautiful Caribbean
1972
as Bredda Ordinance
MovieLeo the Last
1970
as Black Preacher
MovieTwo Gentlemen Sharing
1969
as Marcus
Plays of Today
1969
as Kahami
The Jazz Age
1968
TVITV Playhouse
1967
as Trevor Ford
TVBBC Play of the Month
1965
as Friday
