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
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Filmography
all 37
Movies 27
TV Shows 10
Grandad
Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023)
Movie
Grandad
Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
Movie
Trinidad Pete
City of Tiny Lights (2016)
Movie
5.71
Charlie
Song for Marion (2012)
Movie
6
Nelson Myers
Death in Paradise (2011)
TV
4.5
Uncle Phil
White Van Man (2011)
TV
Big Barry
Beautiful People (2008)
TV
Old Nick
The Invisibles (2008)
TV
Neville
Joy Division (2006)
Movie
Hex (2004)
TV
6
Jamaican Barber
The Calcium Kid (2004)
Movie
Old Billy Morris
Lucky Break (2001)
Movie
Declan
Virtual Sexuality (1999)
Movie
Porkpie
Porkpie (1995)
TV
Neville
O Mary This London (1994)
Movie
Uncle Norman
In Dreams (1992)
Movie
Danny Flowers
Heartbeat (1992)
TV
9
Chalky White
Missing Persons (1990)
Movie
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
Desmond's (1989)
TV
Pastor Morris
Big George Is Dead (1987)
Movie
Wilf
Playing Away (1987)
Movie
George / Vivian House
Casualty (1986)
TV
Lindsay Walker
Half Moon Street (1986)
Movie
Benjy Baptiste
The Passion of Remembrance (1986)
Movie
Poet
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Movie
6
Mac
Playboy of the West Indies (1985)
Movie
Radical
Britannia Hospital (1982)
Movie
Fat Sergeant
Cuba (1979)
Movie
Trevor Ford
Roadrunner (1977)
Movie
Brother John
Pressure (1976)
Movie
Preacher
The Education of Sonny Carson (1974)
Movie
Man Friday
Man Friday (1972)
Movie
Bredda Ordinance
In the Beautiful Caribbean (1972)
Movie
Musician
Take a Girl Like You (1970)
Movie
5.6
Black Preacher
Leo the Last (1970)
Movie
Marcus
Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)
Movie
Friday
BBC Play of the Month (1965)
TV
Ratings
Average 5.69
Based on 109 Thousand movie and tv ratings over time
1965
1982
1990
1987
2023
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Information
Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1934-01-01 (90 years old)
Birth PlaceGeorgetown, Guyana, Guyana
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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