Acting credits
35
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Ram John Holder
Acting
Career Snapshot
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0.3
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Movies: 25Series: 11Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 63006
IMDb ID: nm0390326
Known for: Acting
Born: January 1, 1934
Age: 92
Place of birth: Georgetown, British Guiana
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1965 - 2023
Years active: 59
Average TMDB rating: 6.13
Wikidata: Q7288487
Other jobs
Musician (1)Songs (1)
Biography
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
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Ram John Holder.
6.2
Your Christmas or Mine 2
as Grandad
2023 Movie
6.4
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Grandad
2022 Movie
5.2
City of Tiny Lights
as Trinidad Pete
2016 Movie
6.8
Song for Marion
as Charlie
2012 Movie
5.0
Joy Division
as Neville
2006 Movie
5.5
The Calcium Kid
as Jamaican Barber
2004 Movie
6.1
Lucky Break
as Old Billy Morris
2001 Movie
5.3
Virtual Sexuality
as Declan
1999 Movie
O Mary This London
as Neville
1994 Movie
The Jazz Detective
as Silver
1992 Movie
4.0
Missing Persons
as Chalky White
1990 Movie
5.6
Playing Away
as Wilf
1987 Movie
5.0
Half Moon Street
as Lindsay Walker
1986 Movie
The Passion of Remembrance
as Benjy Baptiste
1986 Movie
6.7
My Beautiful Laundrette
as Poet
1985 Movie
6.2
Britannia Hospital
as Radical
1982 Movie
5.4
Cuba
as Fat Sergeant
1979 Movie
Roadrunner
as Trevor Ford
1977 Movie
6.2
Pressure
as Brother John
1976 Movie
4.9
The Education of Sonny Carson
as Preacher
1974 Movie
Man Friday
as Man Friday
1972 Movie
In the Beautiful Caribbean
as Bredda Ordinance
1972 Movie
5.6
Take a Girl Like You
Musician
1970 Movie
5.2
Leo the Last
as Black Preacher
1970 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Ram John Holder.
7.5
Death in Paradise
as Nelson Myers • 4 eps
2011 Series
6.7
White Van Man
as Uncle Phil • 3 eps
2011 Series
6.8
Beautiful People
as Big Barry • 1 eps
2008 Series
6.3
Hex
1 eps
2004 Series
6.5
The Story of Tracy Beaker
as 'Flying' Freddie Mercer • 3 eps
2002 Series
7.1
Heartbeat
as Danny Flowers • 1 eps
1992 Series
7.3
Desmond's
as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant • 71 eps
1989 Series
5.0
The Fear
as Cuke • 1 eps
1988 Series
5.2
Rockliffe's Babies
as Wiley Hillam • 1 eps
1987 Series
6.2
Casualty
as George • 1 eps
1986 Series
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Friday • 1 eps
1965 Series