Ram John Holder
b. 1934 (age 92)
Georgetown, British Guiana
Actor
Composer
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
Filmography
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★ 5.8
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023 Actor
Grandad
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★ 6.4
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022 Actor
Grandad
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Craig & Danny: Funny, Black and on TV
2020 Self
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★ 6.9
Unfinished Song
2012 Actor
Charlie
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★ 7.9
Rocket's Island
2012 Actor
The Oldest Man in the World
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★ 6.8
White Van Man
2011 Actor
Uncle Phil
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The Web
2011 Actor
Preacher Man
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The Future's Getting Old Like the Rest of Us
2010 Actor
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Jerusalem the Golden
2002 Actor
Tony
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Eulogy
2000 Actor
Horace
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★ 7.2
Porkpie
1995 Actor
Porkpie
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★ 7.3
In Dreams
1992 Actor
Uncle Norman
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★ 6.1
The Jazz Detective
1992 Actor
Silver
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★ 6.5
Missing Persons
1990 Actor
Chalky White
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★ 7.9
Desmond's
1989 Actor
Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
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Big George Is Dead
1987 Actor
Pastor Morris
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★ 5.4
Half Moon Street
1986 Actor
Lindsay Walker
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★ 6.4
The Passion of Remembrance
1986 Actor
Benjy Baptiste (Maggie's Drama)
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★ 7.3
Video Stars
1983 Actor
Doc Shadow
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★ 7.2
Pressure
1976 Actor
Brother John
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★ 6.8
The Education of Sonny Carson
1974 Actor
Preacher
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★ 6.5
Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969 Actor
Marcus