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Geoffrey Holder

Actor, Dancer
1 August 1930 to 5 October 2014

A Trinidadian actor and dancer best known for his role as the Bond villain Baron Samedi, Holder played the seemingly un-killable voodoo priest in Live and Let Die (1973) and also choreographed the film’s dance sequences. He also starred in Annie (1982) and narrated Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). 

Read Geoffrey Holder's Telegraph obituary here