Ram John Holder

Acting

January 1, 1934 (92 years old)

Georgetown, British Guiana

Male

30 Movies

17 TV Shows

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

Song for Marion

2012 6.8

as Charlie

Age 78 (now 92)

Desmond's

1989 7.3

as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant

Age 55 (now 92) 71 eps

71 eps

Your Christmas or Mine?

2022 6.4

as Grandad

Age 88 (now 92)

Half Moon Street

1986 5.1

as Lindsay Walker

Age 52 (now 92)

Your Christmas or Mine 2

2023 6.2

as Grandad

Age 89 (now 92)

Death in Paradise

2011 7.5

as Nelson Myers

Age 77 (now 92) 4 eps

4 eps

My Beautiful Laundrette

1985 6.7

as Poet

Age 51 (now 92)

City of Tiny Lights

2016 5.2

as Trinidad Pete

Age 82 (now 92)

Virtual Sexuality

1999 5.3

as Declan

Age 65 (now 92)

Lucky Break

2001 6.2

as Old Billy Morris

Age 67 (now 92)

Pressure

1976 6.4

as Brother John

Age 42 (now 92)

Leo the Last

1970 5.3

as Black Preacher

Age 36 (now 92)

The Education of Sonny Carson

1974 5.7

as Preacher

Age 40 (now 92)

Britannia Hospital

1982 6.3

as Radical

Age 48 (now 92)

Joy Division

2006 5.2

as Neville

Age 72 (now 92)

The Story of Tracy Beaker

2002 6.5

as 'Flying' Freddie Mercer

Age 68 (now 92) 3 eps

3 eps

Your Christmas or Mine 2

2023 6.2

as Grandad

Age 89 (now 92)

Your Christmas or Mine?

2022 6.4

as Grandad

Age 88 (now 92)