RAM JOHN HOLDER
ACTING
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 2006
- Missing Persons 1990
- Half Moon Street 1986
- The Education of Sonny Carson 1974
- Song for Marion 2012
- Your Christmas or Mine 2 2023
- Your Christmas or Mine? 2022
- My Beautiful Laundrette 1985
- Leo the Last 1970
- Virtual Sexuality 1999
- The Calcium Kid 2004
- Britannia Hospital 1982
- Lucky Break 2001
- Cuba 1979
- Pressure 1976
- City of Tiny Lights 2016
- The Passion of Remembrance 1986
- Heartbeat 1992
- Desmond's 1989
- White Van Man 2011
- Casualty 1986
- Beautiful People 2008
- Death in Paradise 2011
- Hetty Wainthropp Investigates 1996