Ram John Holder

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

Most Famous Work

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Casualty

(1986) Vivian House

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Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

(1996) Chalky White

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Play of the Month

(1965) Friday

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Cuba

(1979) Fat Sergeant

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City of Tiny Lights

(2016) Trinidad Pete

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Joy Division

(2006) Neville

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Half Moon Street

(1986) Lindsay Walker

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Playboy of the West Indies

(1985) Mac

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2023	Grandad	Your Christmas or Mine 2 2023-12-07 Movie
2022	Grandad	Your Christmas or Mine? 2022-12-02 Movie
2016	Trinidad Pete	City of Tiny Lights 2016-09-12 Movie
2012	Charlie	Song for Marion 2012-09-15 Movie
2011	Nelson Myers	Death in Paradise 2011-10-25 TV Show
	Uncle Phil	White Van Man 2011-03-22 TV Show
2008	Big Barry	Beautiful People 2008-10-02 TV Show
2006	Neville	Joy Division 2006-11-17 Movie
2004	N/A	Hex 2004-10-17 TV Show
	Jamaican Barber	The Calcium Kid 2004-04-30 Movie
2001	Old Billy Morris	Lucky Break 2001-08-24 Movie
1999	Declan	Virtual Sexuality 1999-07-02 Movie
1996	Chalky White	Hetty Wainthropp Investigates 1996-01-03 TV Show
1995	Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant	Porkpie 1995-11-13 TV Show
1994	Neville	O Mary This London 1994-03-30 Movie
1992	Danny Flowers	Heartbeat 1992-04-10 TV Show
1990	Chalky White	Missing Persons 1990-05-30 Movie
1989	Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant	Desmond's 1989-01-05 TV Show
1987	Wilf	Playing Away 1987-01-02 Movie
1986	George	Casualty 1986-09-06 TV Show
	Vivian House	Casualty 1986-09-06 TV Show
	Lindsay Walker	Half Moon Street 1986-08-13 Movie
	Benjy Baptiste	The Passion of Remembrance 1986-01-02 Movie
1985	Poet	My Beautiful Laundrette 1985-11-16 Movie
	Mac	Playboy of the West Indies 1985-10-13 Movie
1982	Radical	Britannia Hospital 1982-05-27 Movie
1979	Fat Sergeant	Cuba 1979-12-21 Movie
1977	Trevor Ford	Roadrunner 1977-07-05 Movie
1976	Brother John	Pressure 1976-11-19 Movie
1974	Preacher	The Education of Sonny Carson 1974-07-17 Movie
1972	Man Friday	Man Friday 1972-10-30 Movie
	Bredda Ordinance	In the Beautiful Caribbean 1972-02-03 Movie
1970	Black Preacher	Leo the Last 1970-09-04 Movie
1969	Marcus	Two Gentlemen Sharing 1969-09-17 Movie
1965	Friday	Play of the Month 1965-10-19 TV Show
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Sound

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1970	Musician	Take a Girl Like You 1970-12-16 Movie
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