- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 51 min., 47 sec.)) : sound, color.
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Geoffrey Holder
- Geoffrey Holder
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1003150165
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Geoffrey Holder.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
015147
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2003 April 16.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Dancer Film Actor Stage Director Painter.
- Added Author
Holder, Geoffrey, 1930-2014, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.