Geoffrey Copleston

Actor

March 19, 1921 (77 years)

† January 1, 1999

Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Biography

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 ROBOT JOX as well as the eccentric reclusive millionaire in EMMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS. His fin…

Filmography

7.0

Return of the Saint

Night Club Manager

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

5.5

Big Man

Henry Winterbottom

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.

5.6

Salon Kitty

Guest of Margherita's Parents (uncredited)

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.

7.1

I promessi sposi

mercante

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.

5.2

The Sicilian

Pathe Journalist

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

6.5

A Fine Romance

Krueger

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

6.7

The Night Porter

Kurt

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.

5.0

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

Wilkes

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

5.5

Robot Jox

Confederation Commissioner (as Geoffrey Coplestone)

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.

6.0

My Wife is a Witch

Man Who Returns Invitation Cards

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

2.9

Pumaman

Sir George Bradley

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.

7.2

Bread and Chocolate

Boegli

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?

4.7

The Biggest Battle

S.S. Colonel Jurgens

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.

7.3

Bianco, rosso e Verdone

uomo russo (uncredited)

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.

6.4

One on Top of the Other

District Attorney

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

6.8

The Belly of an Architect

Caspetti

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.

4.9

Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot

Archibald Gold

A lusty young woman decides to use her sexual powers to "tame" the evil and murderous Dr. Jekyll.

6.2

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

Traveller in restaurant (uncredited)

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.

5.4

Detective Belli

Chief of Police (uncredited)

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

6.1

The Black Cat

Inspector Flynn

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.