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
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- Born:
- Dec 22, 2024 In Georgetown, British Guiana
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 29
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Two Gentlemen Sharing 1969-09-17
- Latest Project:
- Movie Your Christmas or Mine 2 2023-12-07
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Your Christmas or Mine 2 | Grandad | 2023-12-07 |
| Movie | Your Christmas or Mine? | Grandad | 2022-12-02 |
| Movie | City of Tiny Lights | Trinidad Pete | 2016-09-12 |
| Movie | Song for Marion | Charlie | 2012-09-15 |
| Movie | Joy Division | Neville | 2006-11-17 |
| Movie | The Calcium Kid | Jamaican Barber | 2004-04-30 |
| Series | Hex | Unknown | 2004-10-17 |
| Movie | Lucky Break | Old Billy Morris | 2001-08-24 |
| Movie | Virtual Sexuality | Declan | 1999-07-02 |
| Series | Porkpie | Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant | 1995-11-13 |
| Series | Heartbeat | Unknown | 1992-04-10 |
| Movie | The Jazz Detective | Silver | 1992-04-27 |
| Movie | In Dreams | Uncle Norman | 1992-12-23 |
| Movie | Missing Persons | Chalky White | 1990-05-30 |
| Series | Desmond's | Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant | 1989-01-05 |
| Movie | Playing Away | Wilf | 1987-01-02 |
| Movie | The Passion of Remembrance | Benjy Baptiste | 1986-01-02 |
| Movie | Half Moon Street | Lindsay Walker | 1986-08-13 |
| Series | Casualty | George | 1986-09-06 |
| Movie | Playboy of the West Indies | Mac | 1985-10-13 |
| Movie | My Beautiful Laundrette | Poet | 1985-11-16 |
| Movie | Britannia Hospital | Radical | 1982-05-27 |
| Movie | Cuba | Fat Sergeant | 1979-12-21 |
| Movie | Roadrunner | Trevor Ford | 1977-07-05 |
| Movie | Pressure | Brother John | 1976-11-19 |
| Movie | The Education of Sonny Carson | Preacher | 1974-07-17 |
| Movie | In the Beautiful Caribbean | Bredda Ordinance | 1972-02-03 |
| Movie | Leo the Last | Black Preacher | 1970-09-04 |
| Movie | Two Gentlemen Sharing | Marcus | 1969-09-17 |