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Geoffrey Holder

1930 - 2014

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Geoffrey Lamont Holder (August 1, 1930 – October 5, 2014) was a Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, musician, director, choreographer, and artist. He was a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, before his film career began in 1957 with an appearance in Carib Gold. For his theatre work, he won two Tony Awards, Best Direction of a Musical and Best Costume Design in a Musical for the original Broadway production of The Wiz. In 1973, he played the villainous Baron Samedi in the James Bond film Live and Let Die. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Geoffrey Holder is the 6,640th most popular actor (down from 5,673rd in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Trinidad and Tobago (down from 16th in 2019) and the most popular Trinidadian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Geoffrey Holder ranks 6,640 out of 13,578. Before him are Xiao Zhan, Mae Questel, Chun Jung-myung, Patrick Warburton, Dan Fogler, and Stephanie Hsu. After him are Paola Núñez, Violetta Ferrari, Robin Givens, Uhm Ji-won, Charles Kent, and Seo Ji-hye.

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Among people born in 1930, Geoffrey Holder ranks 546. Before him are Gun Röring, Blue Mitchell, Yevgeny Maskinskov, Edward Seaga, Ardalion Ignatyev, and Terence Bayler. After him are Violetta Ferrari, F. Albert Cotton, Douglas Hurd, Tommy Kono, Lin Carter, and Marie Senghor Basse. Among people deceased in 2014, Geoffrey Holder ranks 463. Before him are Marcia Strassman, Norman Lane, Albert Reynolds, Géza Gulyás, Javier Guzmán, and Dominique Baudis. After him are Violetta Ferrari, Levente Lengyel, Steven Sotloff, Farley Mowat, Edmund Bruggmann, and Ernest Mühlen.

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In Trinidad and Tobago

Among people born in Trinidad and Tobago, Geoffrey Holder ranks 23 out of 71. Before him are Steven Pressfield (1943), C. L. R. James (1901), Christine Kangaloo (1961), Hasely Crawford (1950), Kamla Persad-Bissessar (1952), and Eric Williams (1911). After him are Anthony Carmona (1953), Ellis Clarke (1917), Anthony Nesty (1967), Lorraine Toussaint (1960), Patrick Manning (1946), and McDonald Bailey (1920).

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Among ACTORS In Trinidad and Tobago

Among actors born in Trinidad and Tobago, Geoffrey Holder ranks 1. After him are Lorraine Toussaint (1960), Marian Marsh (1913), and Winston Duke (1986).

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