Ram John Holder
Acting
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
As actor 43
Death in Paradise
2011
Casualty
1986
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Heartbeat
1992
ITV Playhouse
1967
The Story of Tracy Beaker
2002
Hex
2004
Desmond's
1989
Joy Division
2006
Rockliffe's Babies
1987
The Jazz Age
1968
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985
Stupid!
2004
Beautiful People
2008
Porkpie
1995
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023
City of Tiny Lights
2016
White Van Man
2011
Cuba
1979
Song for Marion
2012
The Fear
1988
Half Moon Street
1986
Robinson Crusoe
1974
Man Friday
1972
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
The Calcium Kid
2004
Britannia Hospital
1982
Plays of Today
1969
Lucky Break
2001
Virtual Sexuality
1999
The Education of Sonny Carson
1974
Playing Away
1987
In Dreams
1992
Leo the Last
1970
The Passion of Remembrance
1986
Missing Persons
1990
Roadrunner
1977
In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972
Pressure
1976
Playboy of the West Indies
1985
O Mary This London
1994
Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969
The Jazz Detective
1992
