Geoff Murphy (born 12 October 1938 ) became a key New Zealand filmmaker during the renaissance of New Zealand cinema that began in the last half of the 1970s. He has also worked as a scriptwriter, assistant director, special effects man, schoolteacher and trumpet player. Growing up in Highbury, Wellington, Murphy attended St. Vincent de Paul School in Kelburn and St Patrick's College Wellington (1952-56). Murphy was a founding member of legendary 'hippy' group Blerta, which toured New Zealand and Australia performing multi-media shows in the early 1970s. Murphy later made a 'best of' film chronicling the Blerta phenomenon, and the group's drummer Bruno Lawrence would make a name for himself as an actor, partly through starring in a number of Murphy's films. Murphy made his name with the classic road movie Goodbye Pork Pie (1981), one of the first New Zealand films to attract large-scale audiences in its home country. Murphy demonstrated his versatility and ability to attract mainstream audiences with the two films that followed: Maori western Utu (1983) and the last man on earth piece The Quiet Earth (1985), both starring Bruno Lawrence.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0614276/filmorate In the 1990s Murphy spent a number of years working in Hollywood. During this period he directed at least three features which had the number two in the title, including the sequel to Young Guns (1990). Later he returned to New Zealand and worked for Peter Jackson on The Lord of the Rings as a second unit director, before making the critically-panned thriller Spooked, featuring Cliff Curtis. More recently Murphy directed the New Zealand comedy series Welcome to Paradise. (more)
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Utu (film):
Utu is a 1983 New Zealand movie directed by Geoff Murphy. It starred Anzac Wallace and was set partly on Robberton Island, Northland. Utu was reputed to have one of the largest budgets for a New Zealand film at the time. Loosely based on events from
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Goodbye Pork Pie:
Goodbye Pork Pie is a 1981 (international release) film directed by Geoff Murphy and written by Geoff Murphy and Ian Mune. The film is considered to be one of New Zealand's most popular films, and is occasionally considered New Zealand's equivalent o
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Spooked (film):
Spooked is a 2004 New Zealand film directed by Geoff Murphy and loosely based on Ian Wishart's novel The Paradise Conspiracy. The film performed poorly at the box office after negative reviews despite its cast of prominent New Zealand actors. .
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The Quiet Earth (film):
The Quiet Earth is a 1985 New Zealand science fiction Doomsday film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Pete Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster. It was based on the 1981 science fiction novel of
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Blerta:
Blerta ("Bruno Lawrence's Electric Revelation and Traveling Apparition"), was a New Zealand musical and theatrical co-operative active in the 1970s. It was the idea of Bruno Lawrence to get together a group of musicians, actors and friends who would
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Don't Look Back (1996 film):
Don't Look Back (1996) is a made-for-HBO action movie/thriller directed by Geoff Murphy (Under Siege 2: Dark Territory) starring Eric Stoltz, John Corbett, Josh Hamilton and Billy Bob Thornton. It's the story of Jesse Parish, a heroin addict living i
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Freejack:
Freejack is a 1992 science fiction film directed by Geoff Murphy. It stars Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, Jonathan Banks, and Anthony Hopkins. The film was R-rated in the United States and received disappointing reviews despite an acclaimed
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Blind Side (film):
Blind Side is an HBO thriller movie for television filmed in 1993, starring Rutger Hauer, Rebecca De Mornay, and Ron Silver, and directed by Geoff Murphy.
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Young Guns II:
Young Guns II is a 1990 western film, and the sequel to Young Guns (1988). It stars Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, and features William Petersen as Pat Garrett. It was directed by Geoff Murphy. It follows t
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Never Say Die (1988 film):
Never Say Die (1988) is an New Zealand action movie starring Temuera Morrison and Lisa Eilbacher. It was written and directed by Geoff Murphy.
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Under Siege 2: Dark Territory:
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory is a 1995 action film set on board a train traveling through the Rocky Mountains from Denver to Los Angeles. Directed by Geoff Murphy, it stars Steven Seagal as the ex-Navy SEAL, Casey Ryback and is the sequel to the 199
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The Last Outlaw (TV):
The Last Outlaw (TV) (1994) was a western released in 1994 starring Mickey Rourke, Dermot Mulroney, Ted Levine, Daniel Quinn, Gavan O'Herlihy, Keith David, John C. McGinley, and Steve Buscemi, along with a variety of other known actors, which has sin
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