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British actor Paul Geoffrey, best known for his roles in the films ‘Excalibur’ and ‘Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes’, has died at the age of 68 from cancer in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The news of his disappearance, which took place on June 3, was spread by “Variety”, which relaunched an obituary that appeared in the local newspaper “Santa Fe New Mexican”.
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Throughout his acting career, Geoffrey played the role of Perceval in John Boorman’s ‘Excalibur’ (1981), a medieval fantasy film that tells the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. Geoffrey also played the role of Lord John ‘Jack’ Clayton in Hugh Hudson’s Tarzan film “Greystoke” (1984). His other notable roles include Mr. Lockwood in the 1992 adaptation of writer Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights,” starring Juliette Binoche. He has appeared in other films such as ‘A Game of Two’, Zina’, ‘Anna Karenina’ and ‘Stairway to Heaven’. For television he has starred appearing in such telefilms as ‘The Jewel in the Crown’, ‘Robin Hood’, ‘Napoleon and Josephine’, ‘Inspector Morse’, ‘Poirot’, ‘The Man from Moscow’, ‘The Manageress’, ‘ Spyship” and in the “Get Shorty” series.
Geoffrey was born February 12, 1955 in Surrey, England. He moved to Santa Fe in the early 1990s and became a real estate agent, although he continued to make appearances on television shows.
Source-tg24.sky.it