Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Geoffrey Holder
Geoffrey Holder
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| Other authors / contributors: | Holder, Geoffrey, 1930-2014, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2003 April 16.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Dancer and film actor Geoffrey Holder was born on August 20, 1930 in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago. He attended Queens Royal College in Port of Spain but received much of his education in dance from the Holder Dance Company, his older brother, Boscoe's dance troupe where Holder started dancing at age seven. After being seen by dancer Agnes deMille in 1952, Holder was invited to New York to audition. To finance his trip, he sold twenty of his paintings. He made his first Broadway performance as Samedi in House of Flowers. That same year brought his first film role in All Night Long. Roles continued with Live and Let Die, Annie and Boomerang. Holder also directed his production of "The Wiz", an all-black retelling of The Wizard of Oz which earned him Tony Awards for Best Director and Best Costume Design. Holder passed away on October 5, 2014 at age 84.
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