Geoffrey Copleston

Acting

Geoffrey Copleston

Born 1921-03-19 · Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

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.

Acting credits

The Godfather Part III poster
7.4

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.

The Godfather Part III

1990

The Sicilian poster
5.2

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

The Sicilian

1987

The Night Porter poster
6.7

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 Night Porter

1974

Salon Kitty poster
5.6

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.

Salon Kitty

1976

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals poster
5.0

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

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

1977

War Italian Style poster
5.0

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.

War Italian Style

1965

Robot Jox poster
5.5

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.

Robot Jox

1990

Beyond Good and Evil poster
5.7

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.

Beyond Good and Evil

1977

A Matter of Time poster
5.1

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.

A Matter of Time

1976

The Biggest Battle poster
4.7

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.

The Biggest Battle

1978

The Belly of an Architect poster
6.8

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.

The Belly of an Architect

1987

The Warning poster
5.4

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 Warning

1980

Pumaman poster
2.9

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.

Pumaman

1980

Lovers and Liars poster
4.3

An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.

Lovers and Liars

1979

One on Top of the Other poster
6.4

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

One on Top of the Other

1969

The Hills Run Red poster
5.9

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.

The Hills Run Red

1966

Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot poster
5.0

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

Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot

1979

My Wife is a Witch poster
5.9

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

My Wife is a Witch

1980

The Prophet poster
5.4

In this comedy, a guru’s groupie plans to seduce him so she can number him among her many conquests.

The Prophet

1968

Detective Belli poster
5.5

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

Detective Belli

1969

Bread and Chocolate poster
7.2

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?

Bread and Chocolate

1974

A Policewoman in New York poster
4.5

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

A Policewoman in New York

1981

The Assisi Underground poster
4.8

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 Assisi Underground

1985

The Black Cat poster
6.1

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.

The Black Cat

1981