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
Joy Division
(Neville)
In the Beautiful Caribbean
(Bredda Ordinance)
Missing Persons
(Chalky White)
Half Moon Street
(Lindsay Walker)
The Education of Sonny Carson
(Preacher)
Song for Marion
(Charlie)
Your Christmas or Mine 2
(Grandad)
Your Christmas or Mine?
(Grandad)
The Jazz Detective
(Silver)
In Dreams
(Uncle Norman)
My Beautiful Laundrette
(Poet)
Virtual Sexuality
(Declan)
Leo the Last
(Black Preacher)
Two Gentlemen Sharing
(Marcus)
Lucky Break
(Old Billy Morris)
The Calcium Kid
(Jamaican Barber)
Britannia Hospital
(Radical)
Cuba
(Fat Sergeant)
Pressure
(Brother John)
Playing Away
(Wilf)
Man Friday
(Man Friday)
Roadrunner
(Trevor Ford)
Playboy of the West Indies
(Mac)
City of Tiny Lights
(Trinidad Pete)
The Passion of Remembrance
(Benjy Baptiste)
O Mary This London
(Neville)
Heartbeat
(Danny Flowers)
Hex
Porkpie
(Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant)
Desmond's
(Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant)
BBC Play of the Month
(Friday)
White Van Man
(Uncle Phil)
Casualty
(George)
Beautiful People
(Big Barry)
Death in Paradise
(Nelson Myers)
Casualty
(Vivian House)
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
(Chalky White)