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Geoff Murphy. Geoffrey Peter Murphy ONZM (12 October 1938 – 3 December 2018) [1] 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. His second feature Goodbye Pork Pie (1981) was the first New Zealand film to win ...
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.
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.
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.
When Geoff Murphy first began making films, there was no film industry in New Zealand. But between 1981 and 1985, he made three features that would set a benchmark for the country’s directors.
Geoff Murphy. Director, Producer, Actor. 12 October 1938 to 3 December 2018. A New Zealand director who was an icon of his home film industry, Murphy directed the Kiwi classics Goodbye Pork Pie (1980), Utu (1983) and The Quiet Earth (1985). His Hollywood output included Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995), while later in his career he directed ...
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 The Lord ...
