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Geoffrey Holder, director and actor, dies at 84 by Associated Press

NEW YORK " Geoffrey Holder, a Tony Award-winning director, actor, painter, dancer and choreographer who during an eclectic show business career led the groundbreaking show "The Wiz" to Broadway, pitched 7-Up on TV and played a scary villain in a James Bond film, has died. He was 84.Holder died Sunday of complications of pneumonia at Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital in New York, according to Anna Glass, a producer and …

SOURCE: Boston Herald at 02:42PM on October 6, 2014

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