Geoffrey Holder, Dancer, Choreographer, Actor, Artist, Has Died
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Posted on: 7th Oct 2014
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. He was 84 and a resident at the Lillian Booth Actors Home of The Actors Fund in Englewood, New Jersey.
Holder's imposing 6'6" frame could barely contain his many talents, and a1975 PEOPLE profile that ran at the time he won two Tonys for his directing and costuming Broadway's groundbreaking The Wiz descrembed him as having "a voice as deep as Othello and as smooth as Caribbean rum."