Geoffrey Holder
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Biography: Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad of African descent, Holder was an actor known for his towering 200-centimeter (6'6") height, heavily accented deep basso voice and hearty laugh. With that and his appearance in the 1970s 7 Up soft drink "uncola" advertising campaign, Holder's image quickly became recognizable. He was also in the 1967 movie Dr. Dolittle as William Shakespeare, "Willy," and played Baron Samedi, one of the main villain's henchmen, in the 1973 James Bond film, Live and Let Die. Though the 7 Up advertising campaign lasted only a short while in the early 1970s, the company revived the campaign in the early 1980s after Holder achieved a spike in popularity in the 1982 movie version of the musical Annie, in which he played the role of Punjab. He was a prolific painter, ardent art collector, and performer who had also authored books and composed music. As a choreographer, he created dance pieces for many companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and The Dance Theatre of Harlem. Holder was married to dancer Carmen De Lavallade, whom he met when both were in the cast of Truman Capote's House of Flowers. .
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Birthday: August 01, 1930
Deathday: October 05, 2014
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Gender: Male
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Live and Let Die
Overview: James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-27
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Swashbuckler
Overview: A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-29
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Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
Overview: An urgent plea to protect creatures from man's insensitivity and greed. The program offers clear explanations of why the survival of sea turtles, humpbacked whales, tiger, bears and other threatened animals is essential to the balance of nature.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-01
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Annie
Overview: An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is selected. While Annie gets accustomed to living in Warbucks' mansion, she still longs to meet her parents. So Warbucks announces a search for them and a reward, which brings out many frauds.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-21
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Doctor Dolittle
Overview: A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
Genres: Music Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-05
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Tropical Rainforest
Overview: The story of the evolution of tropical rain forests, their recent and rapid destruction, and the intense efforts of scientists to understand them even as they disappear. This film gives viewers a better appreciation of the importance of tropical rain forests on a global scale.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-01
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Goggles!
Overview: Two boys discover a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles, and have to outsmart some older boys before they can have fun with their new treasure.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-21
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Krakatoa, East of Java
Overview: A team of maritime salvage workers are about to embark on a recovery dive. However the 1883 Krakatoa Volcano eruption provides more pressing problems.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-26
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Chance or Coincidence
Overview: Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-11-18
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The Magistical
Overview: Once upon a time a guardian was chosen to watch over all living things. She was called The Magistical. Hoping to preserve all precious life, The Magistical created a spell. This spell granted the last of every type of creature, immortality. However, to one very evil Draken, the spell would carry a very different meaning than intended. By killing all other Drakens, she would become the last. Without fear of death, such a beast could rule the world. Now only one baby cub stands between her and her evil ambitions. And between them stands a small, but determined obstacle, named Foible.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-10-19
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Carmen & Geoffrey
Overview: This intimate documentary follows careers of two remarkable personalities: Carmen de Lavallade, a dynamic dancer and choreographer from California who moved to New York with Alvin Ailey and began a legacy of modern dance in America, and her husband Geoffrey Holder, a Trinidad-born choreographer, set and costume designer, painter and man about town with productions such as The Wiz. Features interviews and performance footage of friends and colleagues: dancers Judith Jamison, Gus Solomons, Jr., Dudley Williams, Ulysses Dove and Alvin Ailey.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-04
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Ghost of a Chance
Overview: A television movie about a veteran policeman who accidentally kills a musician. The ghost of the musician returns to persuade the cop to steer the musician's grandson away from drug peddlers and into a life of music.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-12
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-03
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Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary
Overview: Original 1973 short promotional documentary on the making of the 8th James Bond movie Live and Let Die (1973).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-21
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Night of 100 Stars III
Overview: A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-21
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Aladdin
Overview: Cole Porter's version of the story of Aladdin--his only musical written especially for television.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-21
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Boomerang
Overview: Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing Jacqueline, is treating him in exactly the same way. Completely traumatised by this, his work goes badly downhill.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-30
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Night of 100 Stars II
Overview: This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-10
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Christmas
Overview: An adaptation of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol " with Robert Guillaume as John Grin, the Scrooge character. His son Kevin has a role as the Bob Cratchit character, with Geoffrey Holder and Ted Lange as two of the Ghosts.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-01
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The Noah
Overview: Noah, the sole remaining survivor on our planet after a nuclear holocaust, finds himself unable to to accept his unique predicament. To cope with his loneliness, he creates an imaginary companion, then a companion for his companion and finally an entire civilization - a world of illusion in which there is no reality but Noah, no rules but those of the extinct world of his memory - our world.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-10
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
Overview: A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-06
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The Gold Bug
Overview: Shortly after the Civil War, while exploring the long deserted and reputedly haunted Sullivan's Island off Charleston S.C., a boy encounters two obsessed eccentrics living there. These men chase him away and warn him never to return or to tell anyone about them. Soon, however, they locate him and summon him back, because he has unknowingly given them a clue vital to their quest and they need his help to unravel the rest of the mystery. If he can do so, they will find buried pirate treasure and all become rich. But in joining the search, he falls under the same obsession and curse -- an ominous fate suggested by the unearthly electronic music which contributes to the film's atmosphere.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-02
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Overview: A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-13
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All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story
Overview: Documentary profile of singer-actress Eartha Kitt.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-10
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Androcles and the Lion
Overview: The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-15
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Carib Gold
Overview: The hard-working but struggling crew of a shrimp boat discover a sunken treasure. Trouble ensues in this dramatic black-cast production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-30
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Bear in the Big Blue House LIVE! - Surprise Party
Overview: It's Tutter's birthday and viewers are invited to join Bear and the gang in the Big Blue House as they work together to plan a surprise party for Tutter. This stage production features many of the voices from the show and many of its songs as well.
Genres: Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-12
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Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
Overview: An in-depth look into the making of the film Annie (1982). It covers the adaptation changes from the original Broadway musical, the hiring of director John Huston, the nationwide search to cast the title role, the production process, and the conception of several musical numbers, including a different version of the song "Easy Street" than the one that ended up in the film.
Genres: Documentary Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-07
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The Man Without a Country
Overview: At his court-martial, an American Army officer renounces his country. For his punishment he is ordered to spend the rest of his life on a ship that sails all over the world, but he will never be allowed to set foot on his country's soil, nor come within sight of it, nor be allowed to know anything about the country.
Genres: Adventure Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-24
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Goosed
Overview: Sheltered rich girl Charlene has an over-protective mother who insists that her daughter should marry a rich doctor. After Charlene's psychic predicts that her future lover is named Steven, she heads to L.A. to search for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-28
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