Geoff Murphy

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-06-13 (72 years old)

Deathday

2018-12-03

Place of Birth

Wellington, North Island, New Zealand

Geoff Murphy

Biography

Geoff Murphy was a successful New Zealand filmmaker best-known for his work during the renaissance of New Zealand cinema that began in the last half of the 1970s. He directed a string of big-budget Hollywood features during the 1990s, before returning to New Zealand as second unit director on all three movies of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. He has also worked as a scriptwriter, assistant director, special effects man, schoolteacher and trumpet player. Description above from the Wikipedia article Geoff Murphy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1983

Making Utu

as Self

1988

1987

Kaleidoscope

as Subject

1988

Mauri

as Mr Semmens

1977

Wild Man

as Printer

1977

Dagg Day Afternoon

as Man in the Street

Production

1985

The Quiet Earth

as Director

1993

The Last Outlaw

as Director

2000

Fortress 2

as Director

1990

Young Guns II

as Director

1992

Freejack

as Director

1970

Tank Busters

as Director

1984

Utu

as Director

1993

Blind Side

as Director

1981

1981

Goodbye Pork Pie

as Director

2000

1977

Wild Man

as Writer

1977

Wild Man

as Director

1977

1977

1978

A State of Siege

as Assistant Director

1989

2004

Spooked

as Screenplay

2004

Spooked

as Director

1988

Never Say Die

as Producer

1996

Don't Look Back

as Director

1988

Never Say Die

as Director

1988

Never Say Die

as Screenplay

1997

Dante's Peak

as Associate Producer

1981

Goodbye Pork Pie

as Producer

1986

Mr. Wrong

as Screenplay

1997

Dante's Peak

as Second Unit

1974

Uenuku

as Director

2005

xXx: State of the Union

as Second Unit Director

1988

Mauri

as First Assistant Director

1988

Mauri

as Associate Producer

1984

Utu

as Writer

2004

The Land Has Eyes

as Post Production Supervisor

1977

Sleeping Dogs

as Special Effects

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