Geoffrey was a very recognizable voice for several decades especially if you were a kid in the Seventies thanks to the 7-Up commercials he did. I think younger people probably know him more for being the crazy director in Eddie Murphy’s Boomerang. He was often a highlight to visiting Phoenix for me because he did the bumpers on a smooth jazz station called the Coyote.
Check out Geoffrey’s obituary on the New York Times. I knew the guy was multi-talented but not to the extent the article explains. A solid example you’ll see is in Live and Let Die, one of the best Bond films Roger Moore did. Geoffrey played the scary Baron Samedi and choreographed the big voodoo dance scene Bond witnesses when he’s trying to penetrate Mr. Big’s Haitian base. Lastly, he had a pretty funny cameo as the sorcerer in Woody Allen’s Hamlet segment to Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex…