Geoffrey Holder
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Geoffrey Lamont Holder (October 1, 1930 – October 5, 2014) was a Trinidadian-American actor, voice actor, dancer, choreographer, guitarist, painter, and painter.
Audiences are best remembered for his role as Baron Samedi in the 1973 Bond-movie Live and Let Die and as the pitchman for 7 Up.
Early life
Holder, who was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, was one of four children of Bajan and Trinidadian descent. In Port of Spain, he was educated at Tranquility School and King's Royal College. In his brother Boscoe Holder's dance company, he made his debut at the age of seven.
Personal life
Carmen de Lavallade was born in 1955. They lived in New York City and had one son, Léo. Carmen & Geoffrey, a 2005 documentary, were the subject. Boscoe Holder, his elder brother, was a dancer, choreographer, and performer. Christian Holder of Boscoe has also earned acclaim as a dancer, choreographer, and entertainer.
Career
After watching him perform in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, choreographer Agnes de Mille invited Holder to work with her in New York. On his arrival, he attended Katherine Dunham's dance school, where he taught folkloric styles for two years.
He appeared with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet as a principal dancer from 1955 to 1956. He left the ballet to make his Broadway debut in the Harold Arlen and Truman Capote musical House of Flowers. Holder encountered Alvin Ailey, with whom he later worked closely, and Carmen de Lavallade, his future wife, while working on House of Flowers. Waiting for Godot, an all-black film from 1957, he appeared in an all-black production.
Holder began his film career in the 1962 British film All Night Long, a modern interpretation of Shakespeare's Othello. Willie Shakespeare, the head of the natives of Sea-Star Island, followed him as Willie Shakespeare (1967). In 1972, he was cast as the Sorcerer in Anything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to ask). In the Bond film Live and Let Die, he was a henchman named Baron Samedi the following year. He was instrumental in the film's choreography.
Holder spent time in film and television as a spokesperson for the 7 Up in the 1970s and 1980s, calling it "crisp and fresh, no caffeine; never had it, never will."
Holder received two Tony Awards for direction and costume design of The Wiz, the all-black musical adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. Holder was the first black man to be nominated in either category. He was named Best Costume Design by the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design. There were 1672 performances on the program.
Holder, a choreographer, created dance pieces for several companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (1967), and the Dance Theatre of Harlem, for which he provided choreography, music, and costumes for Dougla (1974). Holder directed and choreographed the Broadway musical Timbuktu in 1978. "Bele" by Holder in 1957 is also part of the Dance Theater of Harlem repertory.
In a 1980 made-for-television version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug, held Jupiter, the hulking manservant of an ill-fated treasure-hunter (Roberts Blossom). Holder played Punjab, Albert Finney's bodyguard in John Huston's 1982 film adaptation of the hit stage musical Annie. In John Grin's Christmas, a 1986 sequel to Charles Dickens' " A Christmas Carol starring Robert Guillaume, the narrator was depicted as the Ghost of Christmas Future." Nelson was portrayed by Robert Holder in the 1992 film Boomerang with Eddie Murphy. He was also the voice of Ray in Bear in the Big Blue House and provided narration for Tim Burton's 2005 film adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In the 2011 season finale of The Celebrity Apprenticeship, he reprised his role as the 7 Up spokesman, where he appeared in a commercial for Marlee Matlin's crew.
Holder did a sequence of advertisements for the Armory Auto Group auto dealership in Albany, New York, in 1993.
Holder was a prolific painter (patrons of his art included Lena Horne and William F. Buckley, Jr.), an avid art collector, book author, and composer. In 1956, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in fine arts as a painter. In 1986, Viking Press published a book of his photography, Adam.