Geoffrey Copleston
Geoffrey Copleston (born March 18, 1921 in Manchester , † 1999 ) was a British actor .
Life
Copleston got his first film role through his acquaintance with director King Vidor at the age of 35, when he played a French officer in War and Peace . Almost ten years later, the stocky, bulky Copleston began a career as a character actor in Italy after he was responsible for the English-language version of Sergio Corbucci's Django , which led him to work as a military, hotel manager, police officer, tourist or corrupt politician until the mid-1990s showed. In the six-part television series about "Jack Clementi", Copleston played "Mr. Winter Bottom ".
Copleston also worked as a translator of several books from Italian into English.
Filmography (selection)
- 1956: War and Peace (War and Peace)
- 1966: A flood of dollars (Un fiume di dollari)
- 1966: The red phantom strikes (Superargo contro Diabolikus)
- 1968: The coup of the 7 aces (Sette volte sette)
- 1969: Naked over corpses (Una sull'altra)
- 1974: Bread and Chocolate (Pane e cioccolata)
- 1974: The night porter (Il portiere di notte)
- 1974: The red coats (Giubbe rosse)
- 1976: The great show-off (Le Grand escogriffe)
- 1977: Naked among cannibals (Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali)
- 1979: hands like velvet - the million finger (Mani di velluto)
- 1980: The Puma-Man (L'uomo puma)
- 1981: The Black Cat (Il gatto nero)
- 1981: My wife is a witch (Mia moglie è una strega)
- 1982: Giuseppe Verdi - An Italian Legend (Verdi)
- 1983: The Winds of War (The Winds of War)
- 1984–1986: Alone against the Mafia (La piovra)
- 1986: The smart asses (Asilo di polizia)
- 1987: The Sicilian (The Sicilian)
- 1988–1989: Jack Clementi - just give us a call ... ( Il professore , series of television films)
- 1991: Michelangelo - Genius and Passion (A Season of Giants)
Web links
- Geoffrey Copleston in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geoffrey Copleston In: myheritage.de. , accessed March 11, 2017.
- ↑ Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli: Dictionnaire del cinema italiano. Attori stranieri del nostro cinema. Gremese 2006, pp. 51/52.
- ↑ Info on goodreads.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Copleston, Geoffrey |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1999 |