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
Your Christmas or Mine?
as GrandadStudents Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London...
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Song for Marion
as CharlieArthur is a grumpy pensioner who can't understand why his wife Marion would want to embarrass...
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My Beautiful Laundrette
as PoetA Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama...
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The Calcium Kid
as Jamaican BarberWhen milkman Jimmy Connelly accidentally puts Britain's contender for the World title out of...
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Your Christmas or Mine 2
as GrandadThey've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent...
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Virtual Sexuality
as DeclanA frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak...
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City of Tiny Lights
as Trinidad PeteIn the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward...
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Lucky Break
as Old Billy MorrisHalf-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets...
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Cuba
as Fat SergeantA British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's...
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Joy Division
as NevilleA teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is...
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Britannia Hospital
as RadicalBritannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a...
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Half Moon Street
as Lindsay WalkerDr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly...
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Pressure
as Brother JohnA British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two...
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Playing Away
as WilfTo mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small...
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The Education of Sonny Carson
as PreacherA 1974 film based on the best-selling autobiography of Sonny Carson who joined a gang and...
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Leo the Last
as Black PreacherPrince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and...
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Missing Persons
as Chalky WhiteDuring a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that...
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Two Gentlemen Sharing
as MarcusAn insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
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Roadrunner
as Trevor FordA young West Indian has to interrupt his rich international life to sort out some passport...
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O Mary This London
as NevilleThree young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old...
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In the Beautiful Caribbean
as Bredda OrdinancePlay set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment...
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The Passion of Remembrance
as Benjy BaptisteCo-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and...
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Man Friday
as Man FridayPlay based on the tale of Robinson Crusoe, examining the relationship between Crusoe and Man...
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Death in Paradise
as Nelson MyersA brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling...
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BBC Play of the Month
as FridayPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Chalky WhiteInstead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her...
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Heartbeat
as Danny FlowersSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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Casualty
as GeorgeDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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Casualty
as Vivian HouseDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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Beautiful People
as Big BarryBeautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys...
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White Van Man
as Uncle PhilThe incredible misadventures of two handymen on the road and the extraordinary people they meet...
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Hex
as uncreditedThe show opens with a girl who yearns to be popular and liked in her school. She wishes she was...
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Desmond's
as Augustus 'Porkpie' GrantDesmond's was a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994....
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