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