Ram John Holder
Known for: Actor
Born: 1 January 1934 (age 92), Georgetown, British Guiana
Credits: 44 titles
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
Filmography
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Your Christmas or Mine?
City of Tiny Lights
Song for Marion
Death in Paradise
White Van Man
Beautiful People
Joy Division
Stupid!
Hex
The Calcium Kid
The Story of Tracy Beaker
Lucky Break
Virtual Sexuality
Porkpie
O Mary This London
In Dreams
The Jazz Detective
Heartbeat
Missing Persons
Desmond's
The Fear
Rockliffe's Babies
Playing Away
Casualty
Half Moon Street
The Passion of Remembrance
My Beautiful Laundrette
Playboy of the West Indies
Video Stars
Britannia Hospital
Cuba
Roadrunner
Pressure
Robinson Crusoe
The Education of Sonny Carson
Man Friday
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Leo the Last
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Plays of Today
The Jazz Age
ITV Playhouse
BBC Play of the Month