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
Acting
TV
Death in Paradise
as Nelson Myers
2011
Movie
My Beautiful Laundrette
as Poet
1985
Movie
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Grandad
2022
Movie
Song for Marion
as Charlie
2012
Movie
Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Grandad
2023
TV
Casualty
as George
1986
TV
Casualty
as Vivian House
1986
Movie
City of Tiny Lights
as Trinidad Pete
2016
Movie
Britannia Hospital
as Radical
1982
TV
Hex
as Voodoo Priest
2004
Movie
The Calcium Kid
as Jamaican Barber
2004
Movie
Half Moon Street
as Lindsay Walker
1986
Movie
Virtual Sexuality
as Declan
1999
Movie
Cuba
as Fat Sergeant
1979
Movie
Lucky Break
as Old Billy Morris
2001
TV
Heartbeat
as Danny Flowers
1992
TV
The Story of Tracy Beaker
as 'Flying' Freddie Mercer
2002
Movie
Joy Division
as Neville
2006
TV
Beautiful People
as Big Barry
2008
Movie
Leo the Last
as Black Preacher
1970
TV
Desmond's
as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
1989
TV
White Van Man
as Uncle Phil
2011
Movie
Pressure
as Brother John
1976
Movie
The Education of Sonny Carson
as Preacher
1974
