
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

Death in Paradise
TV • 2011

Casualty
TV • 1986

Casualty
TV • 1986

BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965

Heartbeat
TV • 1992

The Story of Tracy Beaker
TV • 2002

Hex
TV • 2004

Rockliffe's Babies
TV • 1987

Desmond's
TV • 1989

Beautiful People
TV • 2008

The Fear
TV • 1988

White Van Man
TV • 2011

Joy Division
MOVIE • 2006

Cuba
MOVIE • 1979

Your Christmas or Mine?
MOVIE • 2022

Half Moon Street
MOVIE • 1986

My Beautiful Laundrette
MOVIE • 1985

Song for Marion
MOVIE • 2012