Geoff Murphy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Geoff Murphy

New Zealand filmmaker

Date of Birth: 13-Jun-1938

Place of Birth: Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Date of Death: 03-Dec-2018

Profession: screenwriter, actor, film director, film producer, director, producer

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Geoffrey Peter Murphy (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 last half of the 1970s.
His second feature Goodbye Pork Pie (1981) was the first New Zealand film to win major commercial success on its own soil.
Murphy directed several Hollywood features during the 1990s, before returning to New Zealand as second-unit director on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
Murphy was also at different times a scriptwriter, special effects technician, schoolteacher and trumpet player.
He was married to Merata Mita, also a film director, actor, writer.