FILE – In this March 10, 2005 file photo, Geoffrey Holder poses at the French Institute Alliance Francaise’ “La Nuit des Etoiles” dinner in New York, honoring French actress Catherine Deneuve. Holder, a Tony Award-winning director, actor, painter and choreographer who during an eclectic show business career led the groundbreaking show “The Wiz” to Broadway, […]
FILE – In this March 10, 2005 file photo, Geoffrey Holder poses at the French Institute Alliance Francaise’ “La Nuit des Etoiles” dinner in New York, honoring French actress Catherine Deneuve. Holder, a Tony Award-winning director, actor, painter and choreographer who during an eclectic show business career led the groundbreaking show “The Wiz” to Broadway, pitched 7-Up soda on TV and played a scary villain in the James Bond film “Live and Let Die,” died Sunday of complications of pneumonia at Mount Sinai St. Luke’ s Hospital in New York. He was 84. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)