Death of Geoffrey Holder

August 1, 1930 - October 5, 2014
New York, New York | Age 84

Tony Award-winning director, actor, painter, dancer and choreographer dies at 84
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MARK KENNEDY, The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Geoffrey Holder, a Tony Award-winning director, actor, painter, dancer and choreographer who during an eclectic show business career led the groundbreaking show "The Wiz" to Broadway, pitched 7-Up on TV and played a scary villain in a James Bond film, has died. He was 84.

Holder died Sunday of complications of pneumonia at Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital in New York, according to Anna Glass, a producer and family friend.

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