Geoffrey Holder and his wife, dancer Carmen De Lavallade attending the Kennedy Center Honors. Queen's Royal College. Geoffrey Holder with his wife dancer Carmen de Lavallade on their wedding day, June 26, 1955. Geoffrey Holder, the Tony-winning actor, dancer and choreographer known to millions as Baron Samedi in Bond movie Live and Let Die, dies in New York at the age of 84.

Geoffrey Holder, a dancer, painter, director and actor who was equally comfortable saving Orphan Annie or menacing James Bond, died Sunday in New York. Geoffrey Holder, the Tony-winning actor, dancer and choreographer known to millions as Baron Samedi in Bond movie Live and Let Die, dies in New York at the age of 84. Geoffrey Holder, who has died aged 84, was a dancer, choreographer, painter, sculptor, photographer, author and character actor best known as Baron … Carmen de Lavallade Receives Kennedy Center Honors. Geoffrey Holder and wife Carmen De Lavallade married in 1955 after meeting and appearing in 'House of Flowers' on Broadway. PLACE OF BIRTH: Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Rest in peace. admin Home 02.28.2014 Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images [2] Death . She and her husband, Geoffrey Holder, were the subjects of the film Carmen & Geoffrey (2005), which chronicled their sixty year partnership and artistic legacy. [5] One of his siblings (an elder brother), Boscoe, was a Tony Award-winning stage director and costume designer. Feb 7, 2017 - Geoffrey Holder with his wife dancer Carmen de Lavallade on their wedding day, June 26, 1955. The Carmen of the title is Carmen de Lavallade, Mr. Holder’s wife and creative partner for more than 50 years; now in her 70s, she is still a beauty. Holder with wife Carmen de Lavallade. EDUCATION: Tranquillity School. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images He was known for his height (6 ft 6 in, 1.98 m), "hearty laugh", and heavily accented bass voice combined with precise diction. With Carmen De Lavallade, Geoffrey Holder, Alvin Ailey, Josephine Baker. The couple is pictured in 1978 at a Tony Award's party. They were the subject of a 2004 film, Carmen & Geoffrey. Geoffrey Holder was previously married to Carmen De Lavallade (1955 - 2014).. About. He was 84 and a resident at the Lillian Booth Actors Home of The Actors Fund in Englewood, New Jersey.

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“I walk through doors,” Geoffrey Holder thunders in the documentary “Carmen & Geoffrey.” “If I’m not wanted in a place, there’s something wrong with the place, not with me.” GEOFFREY HOLDER. Geoffrey Holder, a larger-than-life presence in the worlds of movies, stage, TV, art, publishing, music, dance - even advertising - died of pneumonia Sunday, The New York Times reports. Geoffrey Holder and his wife, dancer Carmen De Lavallade attending the Kennedy Center Honors. Geoffrey Lamont Holder (August 1, 1930 – October 5, 2014) was a Trinidadian-American actor, voice actor, dancer, choreographer, singer, director and painter. by Jacqueline Roberts. Actor Geoffrey Holder with his wife, actress and dancer Carmen de Lavallade, circa 1993. Carmen de Lavallade with her husband, Geoffrey Holder, in 1955 De Lavallade became a member of the Lester Horton Dance Theater in 1949 where she danced as a lead dancer until her departure for New York City with Alvin Ailey in 1954. He was 84. Geoffrey Holder died in Manhattan of complications from pneumonia on October 5, 2014 aged 84. Dancer, choreographer and actor Geoffrey Holder was born on August 1, 1930, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, into a middle-class family.