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Should we make all the names italic or not italic? :Robin Patterson 11:09, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC) (who created this page at home without signing in)

Ok, might as well provide space for all the other Geoff Murphys to chime in.

Geoff A. Murphy: born 02 January 1967 in Montpelier, Vermont. Married to wife Tonya and currently living in Virginia as a computer geek.

You need to pass the notability standards to be listed. WP:BIO -- Monty845 06:01, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I tried to edit main page but it got edited, worth a try :-)

Date of birth

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Other websites are listing his date of birth as October 10, 1938, whilst imdb have June 13, 1946. Given these discrepancies we will require a reliable source for the information, I have left the date unchanged as I have no reason to prefer any one date over the others. Rje (talk) 18:06, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say this one is a pretty authoritative source: Honorary doc for NZ cinema's 'rascal of the realm' by Massey University. At the time of receiving his honorary doctorate, he was 75 years old; that means the 1938 year is correct. I'll change the article accordingly. Schwede66 04:29, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

POV

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Is the statement "Murphy became most renowned for his artistry in action, brilliance in knockabout comedy, and fusing genres" sufficiently encyclopaedic? It reads more like promotion.Royalcourtier (talk) 07:31, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Murphy and Lawrence Filmmaking Families

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I've been correcting a lot of messed up, common name, Murphy's on IMDB in the last day or two, moving credits from one incorrect Murphy to another correct Murphy (some will be pending for the next few days, as some corrections like profile merges are taking slightly longer than normal, going over their estimated processing date by a day or two), among other things to make it easier to find the British Murphy's I will no doubt be looking for again in future.

While updating those messed up Murphy profile's, I've noticed that a lot of the New Zealand ones are clearly related, as there seems to be around 5 Murphy's on each Geoff Murphy production.

Geoff Murphy is:

Bruno Lawrence is:

Practically every family member I've noticed have credits missing, or need some of their credits (mainly their early credits) tweaking slightly, as they haven't added themselves exactly the same as they're listed on screen, so sometimes it can look more important than they are. Simple things like words being in the wrong order can make someone's role look more important, ie assistant director vs director's assistant.

Yet Geoff and Bruno's articles don't mention these filmmaking relatives or the fact that they're related to each other, never mind the success they've had themselves away from their father and uncles, at least one of which (Paul) easily qualifies for his own article, however I won't be creating it.

I will be adding a lot of useful future references to their IMDB profiles however, just in case someone does decide to create a Wikipedia article for Paul, and/or the entire Murphy/Lawrence filmmaking family. Danstarr69 (talk) 11:58, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]