Acting

Geoffrey Copleston

Born March 19, 1921 · Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Died January 1, 1999 · aged 77

Geoffrey Copleston was an English actor who settled in Italy in the late 1950's. He became heavily involved with the Italian English dubbing industry and his voice can be heard in hundreds of films. He continued physical movie and TV performances as well, almost exclusively in Italian productions or American films made in Italy. He is best remembered for his performance as the chief villain in ROB…

Known For

The Godfather Part III

The Godfather Part III · 1990

The Godfather Part III

MovieCrimeDrama

In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

War and Peace

War and Peace · 1956

MovieWarRomance

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

The Night Porter

The Night Porter · 1974

The Night Porter

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.

The Sicilian

The Sicilian · 1987

MovieDramaCrime

Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.

Salon Kitty

Salon Kitty · 1976

In Nazi Germany, Kitty runs a brothel where the soldiers come to 'relax'. Recording devices have been installed by a power-hungry official who plans to use the information to blackmail and usurp Hitler. One of the girls discovers the ploy and, with the madam's help, takes on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals · 1977

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

MovieAdventureHorror

Intrepid photographer Emanuelle is taken deep into the Amazonian jungle to search for a cannibalistic tribe long believed to be extinct.

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

Me, Me, Me... and the Others · 1966

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.

Robot Jox

Robot Jox · 1990

MovieScience FictionAction

50 years after a nuclear war, the two superpowers handle territorial disputes in a different way. Each fields a giant robot to fight one-on-one battles in official matches, each piloted by a man inside, known as robot jockeys or jox. The contest for possession of Alaska will be fought by two of the best. The conscientious Achilles fights for the Americans. Opposing him is a Russian, Alexander.

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The Godfather Part III

The Godfather Part III · 1990

The Godfather Part III

MovieCrimeDrama

In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

Priest (uncredited)

War and Peace

War and Peace · 1956

MovieWarRomance

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

French Officer (uncredited)

The Night Porter

The Night Porter · 1974

The Night Porter

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.

Kurt

The Sicilian

The Sicilian · 1987

MovieDramaCrime

Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.

Pathe Journalist

Salon Kitty

Salon Kitty · 1976

In Nazi Germany, Kitty runs a brothel where the soldiers come to 'relax'. Recording devices have been installed by a power-hungry official who plans to use the information to blackmail and usurp Hitler. One of the girls discovers the ploy and, with the madam's help, takes on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.

Guest of Margherita's Parents (uncredited)

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals · 1977

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

MovieAdventureHorror

Intrepid photographer Emanuelle is taken deep into the Amazonian jungle to search for a cannibalistic tribe long believed to be extinct.

Wilkes

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

Me, Me, Me... and the Others · 1966

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.

Traveller in restaurant (uncredited)

Robot Jox

Robot Jox · 1990

MovieScience FictionAction

50 years after a nuclear war, the two superpowers handle territorial disputes in a different way. Each fields a giant robot to fight one-on-one battles in official matches, each piloted by a man inside, known as robot jockeys or jox. The contest for possession of Alaska will be fought by two of the best. The conscientious Achilles fights for the Americans. Opposing him is a Russian, Alexander.

Confederation Commissioner (as Geoffrey Coplestone)

The Biggest Battle

The Biggest Battle · 1978

The Biggest Battle

A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.

S.S. Colonel Jurgens

The Belly of an Architect

The Belly of an Architect · 1987

The Belly of an Architect

Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.

Caspetti

The Black Cat

The Black Cat · 1981

Townspeople of a small English village begin to die in a series of horrible accidents, and a Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate a mysterious local medium who records conversations with the dead.

Inspector Flynn

One on Top of the Other

One on Top of the Other · 1969

One on Top of the Other

MovieMysteryThriller

A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.

District Attorney

My Wife is a Witch

My Wife is a Witch · 1980

My Wife is a Witch

MovieComedyFantasy

A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to be reborn in our times.

Man Who Returns Invitation Cards

Bianco, rosso e Verdone

Bianco, rosso e Verdone · 1981

Bianco, rosso e Verdone

Three very different Italians travel to their hometowns on election day: Pasquale, a Southern immigrant living in Munich, finds a country far removed from the one he left behind; Roman civil servant Furio's relentless nitpicking threatens to push his wife Magda over the edge; young Mimmo's journey is repeatedly interrupted by concerns about his grandmother's health.

uomo russo (uncredited)

Pumaman

Pumaman · 1980

MovieScience FictionAction

Thousands of years ago, aliens visited Earth and fathered the Pumaman, a man-god with supernatural powers entrusted by a gold mask with the ability to control people's minds, which in present-day London, falls into the wrong hands.

Sir George Bradley

A Policewoman in New York

A Policewoman in New York · 1981

A Policewoman in New York

MovieActionComedy

A Texan travels to Rome to hire two police officers to impersonate a mobster's girlfriend and his most ruthless hitman.

capo della polizia di New York

The Hills Run Red

The Hills Run Red · 1966

The Hills Run Red

MovieActionWestern

After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught by Union troops. One escapes, but the other is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out and goes home, he finds that his wife has died in poverty because his partner kept all the money, and is now a major power in the area with an army of deadly gunmen to back him up.

Brian Horner

Detective Belli

Detective Belli · 1969

Detective Belli

MovieCrimeDrama

A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross.

Chief of Police (uncredited)

Riderà! - Cuore matto

Riderà! - Cuore matto · 1967

Riderà! - Cuore matto

MovieMusicComedy

Antonio Moruzzo is the son of a butcher with a passion for music and beautiful girls. The father wants him to study but he would rather run around the countryside and sing his songs.

J.K. Deline, Produttore

Bread and Chocolate

Bread and Chocolate · 1974

Bread and Chocolate

MovieComedyDrama

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

Boegli

Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil · 1977

Beyond Good and Evil

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-trois.

Guest in Malvida House (uncredited)

War Italian Style

War Italian Style · 1965

War Italian Style

It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African desert for a Nazi general called Von Kassler. Von Kassler's aide captures them, and arranges for them to escape with fake war plans. But, things don't go exactly as planned for either side.

American High-Ranking Officer (uncredited)

Wild Team

Wild Team · 1985

A South American rebel leader in exile in Miami is given one last chance to overthrow his successor, a brutal dictator, by a multi-national mining group out to exploit his countries' mineral resources.

Harker

One Hundred Days in Palermo

One Hundred Days in Palermo · 1984

One Hundred Days in Palermo

MovieDramaCrime

In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the same focus and methods he used in hunting down the Red Brigade.

Bank Executive (uncredited)

Return of the Saint

Return of the Saint · 1978

Return of the Saint

SeriesAction & Adventure

Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

Night Club Manager

I promessi sposi

I promessi sposi · 1989

I promessi sposi

Set between 1629 and 1631. Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella are Lombard peasants forced to separate and endure a thousand vicissitudes because of the bullying of the squire Don Rodrigo. However, during their journey they will find various people willing to help them, from Friar Cristoforo to the Innominato, from Federigo Borromeo to Donna Prassede.

mercante

Big Man

Big Man · 1988

SeriesAction & AdventureComedy

The renowned Insurance International Co. has created an enquiry network, headed by detective Jack Clementi, to defend itself against insurance fraud. Jack has saved the company enormous amounts of money throughout his successful investigations and his bosses are more than willing put up with his brusque manners, his disconcerting frankness, and his intolerance for any form of company bureaucracy. Yet he is a big guy with a huge heart.

Henry Winterbottom

A Fine Romance

A Fine Romance · 1989

SeriesMysteryComedy

Louisa Phillips and Michael Trent are a once-married couple who are still tied together by their job of co-hosting a travel show.

Krueger