Acting
Ram John Holder
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
2011
Casualty
1986
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Heartbeat
1992
ITV Playhouse
1967
The Story of Tracy Beaker
2002
Hex
2004
Rockliffe's Babies
1987
Desmond's
1989
Beautiful People
2008
Joy Division
2006
White Van Man
2011
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
The Fear
1988
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985
City of Tiny Lights
2016
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023
Half Moon Street
1986
Song for Marion
2012
Britannia Hospital
1982
The Calcium Kid
2004
Lucky Break
2001
Cuba
1979
The Education of Sonny Carson
1974
Virtual Sexuality
1999
Video Stars
1983
Leo the Last
1970
The Passion of Remembrance
1986
O Mary This London
1994
Man Friday
1972
In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972
Robinson Crusoe
1974
Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969
Playing Away
1987
The Jazz Detective
1992
Pressure
1976