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Geoffrey Holder

1930 - 2014

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Geoffrey Lamont Holder (August 1, 1930 – October 5, 2014) was a Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, musician, director, choreographer, and artist. He was a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet before his film career began in 1957 with an appearance in Carib Gold. In 1973, he played the villainous Baron Samedi in the Bond film Live and Let Die. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Geoffrey Holder has received more than 1,794,065 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Geoffrey Holder is the 5,676th most popular actor (down from 5,079th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Trinidad and Tobago (down from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Trinidadian Actor.

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  • 1.8M

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  • 53.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Geoffrey Holder ranks 5,676 out of 13,578Before him are Kal Penn, John Loder, Helge Schneider, Ricky Schroder, Brandon deWilde, and Elisabeth Sladen. After him are Timothy Bottoms, Claudia Kim, Julián Gil, Dexter Fletcher, Agnès Jaoui, and Sachiko Hidari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Geoffrey Holder ranks 478Before him are Andy White, Barkat Gourad Hamadou, Vladimir Andreyev, Kenneth Frampton, Jasraj, and Juan Alberto Melgar Castro. After him are Sachiko Hidari, Alberto Pellegrino, Oscar Rossi, Pepper Adams, Célestin Oliver, and Jean Forestier. Among people deceased in 2014, Geoffrey Holder ranks 397Before him are Blagoje Paunović, Isabelle Collin Dufresne, Odd Iversen, Mustapha Zitouni, Jürgen Kurbjuhn, and Jimmy Jones. After him are Jaroslav Walter, Sirkka Polkunen, Glenn Cornick, Michio Mado, Roberto Telch, and Gennadi Gusarov.

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In Trinidad and Tobago

Among people born in Trinidad and Tobago, Geoffrey Holder ranks 17 out of 71Before him are Basdeo Panday (1933), Stokely Carmichael (1941), Steven Pressfield (1943), Edmundo Ros (1910), Michael Fisher (1931), and Stephen Mallory (1813). After him are A. N. R. Robinson (1926), C. L. R. James (1901), Hasely Crawford (1950), George Padmore (1903), Lorraine Toussaint (1960), and Christine Kangaloo (1961).

Among ACTORS In Trinidad and Tobago

Among actors born in Trinidad and Tobago, Geoffrey Holder ranks 1After him are Lorraine Toussaint (1960), Marian Marsh (1913), and Winston Duke (1986).