Ram John Holder
Acting · Born 1934-01-01 · age 92 · Georgetown, British Guiana
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
Titles
Death in Paradise
My Beautiful Laundrette
Your Christmas or Mine?
Song for Marion
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Casualty
City of Tiny Lights
Britannia Hospital
Hex
The Calcium Kid
Half Moon Street
Virtual Sexuality
Cuba
Lucky Break
Heartbeat
The Story of Tracy Beaker
Joy Division
Beautiful People
Leo the Last
Take a Girl Like You
Desmond's
White Van Man
Pressure
The Education of Sonny Carson
BBC Play of the Month
Playing Away
Rockliffe's Babies
Porkpie
ITV Playhouse
In Dreams
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Stupid!
Missing Persons
The Jazz Detective
Man Friday
O Mary This London
Robinson Crusoe
The Fear
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Roadrunner
The Passion of Remembrance