# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/geoff-murphy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:08:20.552Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/geoff-murphy"
name: "Geoff Murphy"
slug: "geoff-murphy"
description: "Geoffrey Peter Murphy 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 second half of the 1970s. His second feature Goodbye Pork Pie (1981) was the first New Zealand film to win major commercial success on its 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 a scriptwriter, special effects technician, schoolteacher and trumpet player at different times. He was married to Merata Mita, a film director, actress, writer."
tagline: "New Zealand filmmaker (1938–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Geoff_Murphy_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1938-10-12"
deathDate: "2018-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.52131466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0614276/"
    handle:    "nm0614276"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoff Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Murphy"
    title: "Geoff Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Murphy"
    title: "Geoff Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoff Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Murphy"
    title: "Geoff Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoff Murphy"
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    title: "Geoff Murphy"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoff Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump