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

Cast

Joy Division
Neville
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Bredda Ordinance
Missing Persons
Chalky White
Half Moon Street
Lindsay Walker
The Education of Sonny Carson
Preacher
Song for Marion
Charlie
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Grandad
Your Christmas or Mine?
Grandad
The Jazz Detective
Silver
In Dreams
Uncle Norman
My Beautiful Laundrette
Poet
Virtual Sexuality
Declan
Leo the Last
Black Preacher
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Marcus
The Calcium Kid
Jamaican Barber
Lucky Break
Old Billy Morris
Cuba
Fat Sergeant
Britannia Hospital
Radical
Pressure
Brother John
Playing Away
Wilf
Man Friday
Man Friday
Roadrunner
Trevor Ford
Playboy of the West Indies
Mac
City of Tiny Lights
Trinidad Pete
The Passion of Remembrance
Benjy Baptiste
O Mary This London
Neville

Crew

Take a Girl Like You
Musician
Leo the Last
Songs, Additional Writing