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  2. Jan 11, 2024 · Baron Samedi, Linking to a voodoo cult, survived Bond's attacks and escaped the snake pit, possibly due to his supernatural nature as the Iwa of the Dead. While Baron Samedi's existence as a Haitian spirit aligns with traditional depictions, it feels out of place in a James Bond movie.

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Baron_SamediBaron Samedi - Wikipedia

    Baron Samedi (English: Baron Saturday), also written Baron Samdi, Bawon Samedi or Bawon Sanmdi, is one of the lwa of Haitian Vodou. He is a lwa of the dead, along with Baron's numerous other incarnations Baron Cimetière , Baron La Croix and Baron Criminel .

  4. Baron Samedi is a character from the James Bond novel and film Live and Let Die. In Ian Fleming's 1954 novel, Baron Samedi is a voodoo figure with whom Mr. Big has chosen to identify himself with to inspire fear among his followers.

  5. Oct 9, 2014 · In 1973 he played the top-hatted voodoo villain Baron Samedi in the Bond film Live and Let Die. “When people ask me, ‘What are you?’ “ he said, “I have to say I don’t know.”

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  6. Oct 6, 2014 · Geoffrey Holder, who played Baron Samedi in Live And Let Die, has died at the age of 84 from complications caused by Pneumonia according to a family spokesman.

  7. Feb 23, 2021 · Baron Samedi is seen rising from a grave, and James Bond later shoots him in the head with a magnum. His eyes are looking at the gaping wound in his own skull, and when Bond shoots again he crumbles like a clay figure. Another Samedi soon rises from another grave, and after a fight, Bond tosses him into a coffin loaded with snakes.

  8. Oct 7, 2014 · Actor Geoffrey Holder has died aged 84. His most famous role came as James Bond’s voodoo-practising nemesis Baron Samedi in Live and Let Die (1973), the first Bond film to star Roger Moore. Holder was born in Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago in 1930.

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