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Birthday: Jan 01, 1934
Place of Birth: Georgetown, British Guiana

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

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Joy Division Neville 2006
In the Beautiful Caribbean Bredda Ordinance 1972
Missing Persons Chalky White 1990
Half Moon Street Lindsay Walker 1986
The Education of Sonny Carson Preacher 1974
Song for Marion Charlie 2012
Your Christmas or Mine 2 Grandad 2023
Your Christmas or Mine? Grandad 2022
The Jazz Detective Silver 1992
In Dreams Uncle Norman 1992
My Beautiful Laundrette Poet 1985
Leo the Last Black Preacher 1970
Virtual Sexuality Declan 1999
Two Gentlemen Sharing Marcus 1969
The Calcium Kid Jamaican Barber 2004
Britannia Hospital Radical 1982
Lucky Break Old Billy Morris 2001
Cuba Fat Sergeant 1979
Pressure Brother John 1976
Playing Away Wilf 1987
Man Friday Man Friday 1972
Roadrunner Trevor Ford 1977
Playboy of the West Indies Mac 1985
City of Tiny Lights Trinidad Pete 2016
The Passion of Remembrance Benjy Baptiste 1986
O Mary This London Neville 1994
Series Cast Year
Heartbeat Danny Flowers 1992
Hex 2004
Porkpie Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant 1995
Desmond's Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant 1989
BBC Play of the Month Friday 1965
White Van Man Uncle Phil 2011
Casualty George 1986
Beautiful People Big Barry 2008
Death in Paradise Nelson Myers 2011
Casualty Vivian House 1986
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Chalky White 1996
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