Geoffrey Copleston
Birthday: Born in 1921-03-19 in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Deathday: 1999-01-01
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 final roles of note were the innkeeper in Roger Corman's FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND and in Al Festa's music-oriented giallo film FATAL FRAMES.
TV Credits
I promessi sposi
Character: mercante
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Return of the Saint
Character: Night Club Manager
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts....
Big Man
Character: 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....
Big Man
Character: Mr. 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....
Jack Clementi
Character: Mr. Winterbottom
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Movie Credits
Pumaman
Character: 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....
The Black Cat
Character: 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....
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Character: Wilkes
Intrepid photographer Emanuelle is taken deep into the Amazonian jungle to search for a cannibalistic tribe long believed to be extinct....
Fatal Frames
Character: Mr. Fairbrain
Alex Ritt, a music video director comes to Italy to direct a video for pop sensation Stefania Stella. He soon encounters a mysterious killer who videotapes his victims for the police. As the horrible murders continue, Ritt is unknowingly pushed into the killer's games and he soon becomes a target of the police. The video-killer is on the loose and Ritt must find out the truth before it's too late....
Madman at War
Character: Le commandant allemand
A young psychiatrist struggles to remove an erratic captain from command at an Italian base in the Lybian desert during World War II....
The Hills Run Red
Character: Brian Horner
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....
7 Golden Women Against Two 07
Character:
Mark Davis, secret agent No. 07, is after a Nazi treasure hidden somewhere in the Mediterranean waters before the end of WW2. The key to the secret location is hidden in a Goya painting. Mark attends an art auction just in time to see the painting being bought by a lovely young woman. But soon he will discover that there are six other replicas of the painting - each in the possession of a girl, and as many international spies, art dealers, and com men behind the ladies. Mark is already an expert...
The Web of Silence - A.I.D.S.
Character: Walter's Father
Walter is HIV positive and is leading a promiscuis life in Rome. He does this so that he won’t infect his wife. Walter’s wife is also cheating on him. In a decidedly dull subplot, Walter’s father is a senator who wants to use his son’s illness to promote his own political career by calling for more AIDS research....
Let's Make It Clear
Character: Mercalli
The young manager of a small television station loses his sight following an accident. When he buys her back, thanks to a new accident, he discovers that his wife is cheating on him, that his best friend has sold the television and that the girl he was falling in love with is only an investigator of the insurance company....
A Matter of Time
Character: Hotel Manager
During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life....
The Prophet
Character: Bagni
In this comedy, a guru’s groupie plans to seduce him so she can number him among her many conquests....
Riderà! - Cuore matto
Character: J.K. Deline, Produttore
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....
Fear of Scandal
Character:
The beauty and the attractiveness of her lover prevent a professional from getting the promotion that has always been coveted. Then a ferocious killer attentive to the woman's life....
Il tassinaro
Character: American Tourist
Pietro Marchetti, a mature Roman taxi driver, has countless and interesting meetings while he is on duty with his car "Zara 87"....
Neapolitan Story
Character: Don Vincenzo Coppola
The last wish of Vito Fonseca dying is to be buried in his native Naples. And so it is. When the young and beautiful wife Fanny arrives in Naples, she discovers that her husband had a son, Ferdinando, a wife and a villa of which he is the sole heir....
Killer Rules
Character: Chairman of the Board
Two adoptive brothers -- one a mob hit man, the other a Department of Justice investigator -- who are unaware of each other's existence until they become involved with the same woman, end up in a deadly triangle in this thriller....
Red Coat
Character:
Cormack, the lawman most feared by the rugged pioneers at the turn of the century, has a mysterious bond with "Caribou," an outlaw whom he has jailed. When Caribou escapes from prison, he returns to seek revenge....
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
Character: UN Speaker
Lavinia Kean, a brilliant American espionage agent, combats the wiles of international criminal and blackmailer Cesare Magnasco....
Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden
Character:
Mimi Bluette, daughter of a prostitute, lives in Paris where she is idolized by men of all kinds and class, is about to settle with a rich man when, in a bar, she meets a stranger....
Bread and Chocolate
Character: 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?...
The Belly of an Architect
Character: Caspetti
The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health....
Superargo vs Diabolicus
Character: Conrad, the Council President
After accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, masked wrestler Superargo quits wrestling and, following the advice of his friend Col. Alex Kinski of the Secret Service, becomes a secret agent, using his superhuman abilities to stop villain Diabolicus' plans to wreck the global economy by turning uranium into gold....
Salon Kitty
Character: Guest of Margherita's Parents (uncredited)
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty's help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy....
Good Like Bread
Character: Colonnello Vittorio Bisceglie
Lisetta (Carmen Russo) a high-priced call-girl, that entertained her eccentric clients in her apartment and in empty theaters over opera! She met Filippo (Saverio Marconi), a bumbling astronomer , and after a series of mishaps, they got married....
One Hundred Days in Palermo
Character: Bank Executive (uncredited)
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....
Hot Spirits
Character: Dr. Eric Stainer
Giovanni is a rich Italian aristocrat. He inherit a castle occupied by the ghost of an ancestor. Part of the inheritance is of a young beautiful blonde tourist, far relative of Giovanni. The two have to pay a ticket to the ghost to be free to own the castle. Guess what?...
The Sicilian
Character: Pathe Journalist
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence....
Lovers and Liars
Character: Automobilista
An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover....
The Black Cobra 3
Character: The Senator (uncredited)
Shipment of American weapons is stolen in the Philippines. An American named Hawkins tries to find the weapons. Hawkins ends up dead. Chicago policeman Bob Malone is called in to investigate. Along with Interpol agent Greg Duncan, Malone travels the streets of Manila, tracking down leads. Criminals always seem to know where Duncan and Malone will be, which leads them to suspect a traitor in their midst....
Dio li fa poi li accoppia
Character: il sindaco di Kellemborg
At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to abort and drag her to court....
Lobster for Breakfast
Character: sig. Duchamp
Marco is married to Carla, a rich businesswoman. She's off to Geneva for two days; he has a tryst with Monique, a Swedish air hostess. Carla's flight is canceled, so she heads home about to catch Mario en flagrant. Mario's salvation is Enrico, an old school mate and hapless salesman who shows up to beg Mario to buy toilets so he won't lose his job. Mario signs an order in exchange for Enrico's posing as Monique's husband. Carla invites them to stay overnight and join a business dinner party cate...
A Policewoman in New York
Character: capo della polizia di New York
A Texan travels to Rome to hire two police officers to impersonate a mobster's girlfriend and his most ruthless hitman....
Willy Signori e vengo da lontano
Character: il direttore del giornale
Willy is involved in a fatal car accident. Willy takes on the responsibility of supporting the dead man's pregnant girlfriend and the child, after it's birth....
The Big Blackout
Character: Chief Bowles
Secret agent Perry Grant is called in to investigate a strange case which involves counterfeit money, industrial espionage, and a fashion company that may be functioning as a front for a secret criminal organization....
My Wife is a Witch
Character: 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....
The Assisi Underground
Character: Police Chief Bertolucci
This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943....
The Biggest Battle
Character: 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....
Detective School Dropouts
Character: Mr. Hammelfarm
Two bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves in the middle of a mob war when it turns out that the missing person is somebody the mob wants to stay missing....
Wild Team
Character: Harker
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....
The Warning
Character: procuratore Vesce
During a high-stakes investigation into corporate and banking elites tied to organized crime, a police chief and his team are murdered for refusing a bribe. Meanwhile, another officer finds his bank account credited with a large sum and receives anonymous instructions on how to handle the subsequent inquiry....
The Big Operator
Character: Texan (as Geoffrey Coppleston)
The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire....
Robot Jox
Character: 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....
A Man Called Magnum
Character: Boss Tedesco
A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until they discover who double-crossed them. Into this backdrop, Inspector Dario Mauri arrives from Milan to help clean-up Naples. His mission – find the drugs and stop the killing....
Sahara Cross
Character:
Jean Bellard and Carl Mank, two Western engineers supported by Hamid are in search of a terrorist group that murdered their colleague in the Tunisian desert....
Bianco, rosso e Verdone
Character: uomo russo (uncredited)
Three Italians travel to their hometown to vote for elections: Pasquale is a Southern immigrant living in Munich who's genuinely happy to come back to Italy, even if just for a few days, but the country he dreams of is far from reality; Furio travels to Rome with his family, but his niggling attitude threatens to push his wife Magda over the edge; young Mimmo is also going to Rome, but the trip is repeatedly interrupted by worries about his grandma's health....
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Character: 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....
Paid in Blood
Character: Alec Quinter (uncredited)
Luigi Batzella directed this spaghetti western under the pseudonym "Paolo Solvay." Gioffredo Scarciofolo stars (using his standard alias, "Jeff Cameron") as Tom Carter, whose brother was murdered and robbed by the evil Ringo Brown (William Mayor) shortly after taking all his money out of the bank to marry Cora (Krista Nell), a local saloon girl. Tom is suspicious of Cora, but she helps him unmask the real killer....
Detective Belli
Character: 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....
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
Character: Head of Secret Service
A dangerous criminal group wants to destroy St. Peter's Basilica and the secret agent James Tont is the only one who can help it....
The Night Porter
Character: 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....
War Italian Style
Character: American High-Ranking Officer (uncredited)
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....
Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot
Character: Archibald Gold
A lusty young woman decides to use her sexual powers to "tame" the evil and murderous Dr. Jekyll....
One on Top of the Other
Character: District Attorney
A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife....
The Dark Sun
Character:
After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to participate in various crimes commited by the mafia....