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Geoffrey Peter Murphy ONZM (12 October 1938 – 3 December 2018) was a New Zealand filmmaker, producer, director, and screenwriter best known for his work during the renaissance of New Zealand cinema that began in the second half of the 1970s.
Geoff Murphy (1938-2018) was a filmmaker who worked on The Quiet Earth, Dante's Peak and The Lord of the Rings. He also acted in Blerta, Wild Man and Dagg Day Afternoon.
Geoff Murphy was born on 12 October 1938 in Wellington, New Zealand. He was a director and actor, known for The Quiet Earth (1985), Dante's Peak (1997) and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995). He was married to Merata Mita, Pat Robins and Diane Kearns.
Dec 4, 2018 · The director of "The Quiet Earth" and "Utu" was one of the leading figures in New Zealand cinema's renaissance of the late 1970s and 1980s. He also worked in Hollywood on films like "Young Guns II" and "Dante's Peak".
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.
Dec 3, 2018 · Geoff Murphy, a leading figure in the New Zealand movie industry in the 1970s and ’80s who also helmed such Hollywood fare as Young Guns II and Freejack and was second-unit director on...
Acclaimed Kiwi film director Geoff Murphy has died. Murphy, 80, was a leading figure in the fledgling New Zealand film industry in the 1970s - directing classic films including 1981's Goodbye...
