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
Known for
Death in Paradise
Nelson Myers
BBC Play of the Month
Friday
The Story of Tracy Beaker
'Flying' Freddie Mercer
Heartbeat
Danny Flowers
Casualty
George
Casualty
Vivian House
Desmond's
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
Hex
White Van Man
Uncle Phil
Stupid!
Various Characters
Beautiful People
Big Barry
Porkpie
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
Cuba
Fat Sergeant
My Beautiful Laundrette
Poet
Joy Division
Neville
Britannia Hospital
Radical
Virtual Sexuality
Declan
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Grandad
Song for Marion
Charlie
Your Christmas or Mine?
Grandad
The Calcium Kid
Jamaican Barber
Lucky Break
Old Billy Morris
The Passion of Remembrance
Benjy Baptiste
Leo the Last
Black Preacher
Half Moon Street
Lindsay Walker
Pressure
Brother John
City of Tiny Lights
Trinidad Pete
Missing Persons
Chalky White
In Dreams
Uncle Norman
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Marcus
Playing Away
Wilf
The Education of Sonny Carson
Preacher
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Bredda Ordinance
Man Friday
Man Friday
O Mary This London
Neville
The Jazz Detective
Silver
Roadrunner
Trevor Ford
Playboy of the West Indies
Mac