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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

Known For: Acting

Born: Georgetown, British Guiana, 1934-01-01

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1969	Two Gentlemen Sharing	Marcus	40
2	1970	Leo the Last	Black Preacher	54
3	1972	In the Beautiful Caribbean	Bredda Ordinance	0
4	1972	Man Friday	Man Friday	0
5	1974	The Education of Sonny Carson	Preacher	49
6	1976	Pressure	Brother John	60
7	1977	Roadrunner	Trevor Ford	0
8	1979	Cuba	Fat Sergeant	55
9	1982	Britannia Hospital	Radical	63
10	1985	Playboy of the West Indies	Mac	0
11	1985	My Beautiful Laundrette	Poet	67
12	1986	The Passion of Remembrance	Benjy Baptiste	0
13	1986	Half Moon Street	Lindsay Walker	51
14	1987	Playing Away	Wilf	56
15	1990	Missing Persons	Chalky White	40
16	1992	The Jazz Detective	Silver	0
17	1992	In Dreams	Uncle Norman	70
18	1994	O Mary This London	Neville	0
19	1999	Virtual Sexuality	Declan	52
20	2001	Lucky Break	Old Billy Morris	62
21	2004	The Calcium Kid	Jamaican Barber	55
22	2006	Joy Division	Neville	52
23	2012	Song for Marion	Charlie	68
24	2016	City of Tiny Lights	Trinidad Pete	53
25	2022	Your Christmas or Mine?	Grandad	64
26	2023	Your Christmas or Mine 2	Grandad	62

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Friday	50
2	1968	The Jazz Age		0
3	1986	Casualty	George	61
4	1986	Casualty	Vivian House	61
5	1989	Desmond's	Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant	71
6	1992	Heartbeat	Danny Flowers	71
7	1995	Porkpie	Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant	60
8	2002	The Story of Tracy Beaker	'Flying' Freddie Mercer	64
9	2004	Hex		63
10	2004	Stupid!	Various Characters	70
11	2008	Beautiful People	Big Barry	70
12	2011	White Van Man	Uncle Phil	66
13	2011	Death in Paradise	Nelson Myers	74