Ram John Holder
Born in Georgetown, British Guiana — Jan 01 1934
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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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Ram John Holder's Credits
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Death in Paradise
Nelson Myers
Casualty
George
Heartbeat
Danny Flowers
BBC Play of the Month
Friday
Hex
Voodoo Priest
The Story of Tracy Beaker
'Flying' Freddie Mercer
The Jazz Age
Beautiful People
Big Barry
Rockliffe's Babies
Wiley Hillam
Desmond's
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
Stupid!
Various Characters
White Van Man
Uncle Phil
The Fear
Cuke
Joy Division
Neville
Cuba
Fat Sergeant
My Beautiful Laundrette
Poet
Your Christmas or Mine?
Grandad
Lucky Break
Old Billy Morris
City of Tiny Lights
Trinidad Pete
Half Moon Street
Lindsay Walker
The Calcium Kid
Jamaican Barber
Britannia Hospital
Radical
Song for Marion
Charlie
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Grandad
Porkpie
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Marcus
Take a Girl Like You
Sound
In Dreams
Uncle Norman
Virtual Sexuality
Declan
Leo the Last
Black Preacher
Roadrunner
Trevor Ford
The Education of Sonny Carson
Preacher
Missing Persons
Chalky White
Man Friday
Man Friday
Playing Away
Wilf
O Mary This London
Neville
The Jazz Detective
Silver
Playboy of the West Indies
Mac
Pressure
Brother John
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Bredda Ordinance
The Passion of Remembrance
Benjy Baptiste
Robinson Crusoe
Friday