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Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
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…
Known for
- Cowboys of Culture — Self1990
- Never Say Die — Jack1988
- Mauri — Mr Semmens1988
- Kaleidoscope — Subject1987
- Making Utu — Self1983
- Utu — Wagon Driver1983
- Wild Man — Printer1977
- Dagg Day Afternoon — Man in the Street1977
- Hurry Hurry Faster Faster1965
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- Listeners
- 29
- Total plays
- 44
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Family name
- Murphy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Place of birth
- Wellington
- Place of death
- Wellington
- Spouse
- Merata Mita
- Educated at
- Massey University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- film production
- Image
- Geoff Murphy (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- New Zealand
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- birth name
- Geoffrey Peter Murphy
- date of birth
- 1938-01-01
- name in native language
- Geoff Murphy
- start of work period
- 1974-00-00
- date of death
- 2018-01-01
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Geoff Murphy
- Commons category
- Geoff Murphy
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