
Actor
Ram John Holder
Born 1934 · Georgetown, British Guiana
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

Death in Paradise
Nelson Myers · 2011

My Beautiful Laundrette
Poet · 1985

Song for Marion
Charlie · 2012

Your Christmas or Mine?
Grandad · 2022

Your Christmas or Mine 2
Grandad · 2023

Casualty
George · 1986

Britannia Hospital
Radical · 1982

Hex
Voodoo Priest · 2004

Heartbeat
Danny Flowers · 1992

The Story of Tracy Beaker
'Flying' Freddie Mercer · 2002

Lucky Break
Old Billy Morris · 2001

Beautiful People
Big Barry · 2008

City of Tiny Lights
Trinidad Pete · 2016

The Calcium Kid
Jamaican Barber · 2004

Desmond's
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant · 1989

Cuba
Fat Sergeant · 1979

Virtual Sexuality
Declan · 1999

Half Moon Street
Lindsay Walker · 1986

Man Friday
Man Friday · 1972
In Dreams
Uncle Norman · 1992

White Van Man
Uncle Phil · 2011

Pressure
Brother John · 1976

O Mary This London
Neville · 1994

Joy Division
Neville · 2006