Geoff Murphy
Geoff Murphy
13.06.1946 (77 gadi) (New Zealand)
Geoffrey Peter Murphy is a New Zealand filmmaker, as a 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 has also been a scriptwriter, special effects technician, schoolteacher and trumpet player.