Ram John Holder

Born: 1934-01-01, Georgetown, British Guiana

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

Filmography

• Death in Paradise (2011)
• Casualty (1986)
• Heartbeat (1992)
• Hex (2004)
• The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002)
• Joy Division (2006)
• Cuba (1979)
• Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
• City of Tiny Lights (2016)
• My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
• Song for Marion (2012)
• Lucky Break (2001)
• Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023)
• Half Moon Street (1986)
• Man Friday (1972)
• Virtual Sexuality (1999)
• Britannia Hospital (1982)
• The Calcium Kid (2004)
• Leo the Last (1970)
• The Passion of Remembrance (1986)
• The Education of Sonny Carson (1974)
• Roadrunner (1977)
• In the Beautiful Caribbean (1972)
• Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)
• O Mary This London (1994)
• The Jazz Detective (1992)