Ram John Holder

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

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Filmography

2023

Your Christmas or Mine 2
Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Grandad
Movie - Released: 12/7/2023

2022

Your Christmas or Mine?
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Grandad
Movie - Released: 12/2/2022

2016

City of Tiny Lights
City of Tiny Lights
as Trinidad Pete
Movie - Released: 9/12/2016

2012

Song for Marion
Song for Marion
as Charlie
Movie - Released: 9/15/2012

2011

White Van Man
White Van Man
as Uncle Phil
TV - Released: 3/22/2011
Death in Paradise
Death in Paradise
as Nelson Myers
TV - Released: 10/25/2011

2008

Beautiful People
Beautiful People
as Big Barry
TV - Released: 10/2/2008

2006

Joy Division
Joy Division
as Neville
Movie - Released: 11/17/2006

2004

The Calcium Kid
The Calcium Kid
as Jamaican Barber
Movie - Released: 4/30/2004
Hex
Hex
TV - Released: 10/17/2004
Stupid!
Stupid!
as Various Characters
TV - Released: 12/6/2004

2002

The Story of Tracy Beaker
The Story of Tracy Beaker
as 'Flying' Freddie Mercer
TV - Released: 1/8/2002

2001

Lucky Break
Lucky Break
as Old Billy Morris
Movie - Released: 8/24/2001

1999

Virtual Sexuality
Virtual Sexuality
as Declan
Movie - Released: 7/2/1999

1996

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Chalky White
TV - Released: 1/3/1996

1995

TV
Porkpie
as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
TV - Released: 11/13/1995

1994

O Mary This London
O Mary This London
as Neville
Movie - Released: 3/30/1994

1992

The Jazz Detective
The Jazz Detective
as Silver
Movie - Released: 4/27/1992
Movie
In Dreams
as Uncle Norman
Movie - Released: 12/23/1992
Heartbeat
Heartbeat
as Danny Flowers
TV - Released: 4/10/1992

1990

Missing Persons
Missing Persons
as Chalky White
Movie - Released: 5/30/1990

1989

Desmond's
Desmond's
as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
TV - Released: 1/5/1989

1987

Playing Away
Playing Away
as Wilf
Movie - Released: 1/2/1987

1986

Half Moon Street
Half Moon Street
as Lindsay Walker
Movie - Released: 8/13/1986
The Passion of Remembrance
The Passion of Remembrance
as Benjy Baptiste
Movie - Released: 1/2/1986
Casualty
Casualty
as George
TV - Released: 9/6/1986
Casualty
Casualty
as Vivian House
TV - Released: 9/6/1986

1985

My Beautiful Laundrette
My Beautiful Laundrette
as Poet
Movie - Released: 11/16/1985
Movie
Playboy of the West Indies
as Mac
Movie - Released: 10/13/1985

1982

Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital
as Radical
Movie - Released: 5/27/1982

1979

Cuba
Cuba
as Fat Sergeant
Movie - Released: 12/21/1979

1977

Roadrunner
Roadrunner
as Trevor Ford
Movie - Released: 7/5/1977

1976

Pressure
Pressure
as Brother John
Movie - Released: 11/19/1976

1974

The Education of Sonny Carson
The Education of Sonny Carson
as Preacher
Movie - Released: 7/17/1974

1972

In the Beautiful Caribbean
In the Beautiful Caribbean
as Bredda Ordinance
Movie - Released: 2/3/1972
Man Friday
Man Friday
as Man Friday
Movie - Released: 10/30/1972

1970

Leo the Last
Leo the Last
as Black Preacher
Movie - Released: 9/4/1970

1969

Two Gentlemen Sharing
Two Gentlemen Sharing
as Marcus
Movie - Released: 9/17/1969

1965

BBC Play of the Month
BBC Play of the Month
as Friday
TV - Released: 10/19/1965