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Filmmaker · New Zealand

Geoff Murphy

Died in 2018

Geoffrey Peter Murphy was born in Wellington on 12 October 1938 and grew up there. A teacher, trumpeter and special-effects technician, he was one of the founders of Blerta, a music and theatre cooperative that toured New Zealand and Australia in the early seventies and several of whose members moved into film. He worked for about ten years in Hollywood, in the nineties, then returned home. Made an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2014, he died on 3 December 2018, aged eighty.

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