
Ram John Holder
Department: Acting
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
Known For

Joy Division
2006

In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972

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

The Jazz Detective
1992

In Dreams
1992

My Beautiful Laundrette
1985

Virtual Sexuality
1999

Leo the Last
1970

Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969

Lucky Break
2001

The Calcium Kid
2004

Britannia Hospital
1982

Cuba
1979

Pressure
1976

Playing Away
1987

Man Friday
1972

Roadrunner
1977

Playboy of the West Indies
1985

City of Tiny Lights
2016

The Passion of Remembrance
1986

O Mary This London
1994

Robinson Crusoe
1974

Heartbeat
1992

Porkpie
1995

Desmond's
1989

White Van Man
2011

Casualty
1986

Beautiful People
2008

Death in Paradise
2011

Casualty
1986

The Story of Tracy Beaker
2002

Stupid!
2004

BBC Play of the Month
1965

The Jazz Age
1968

Rockliffe's Babies
1987

The Fear
1988

Hex
2004