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Geoffrey Cantor
Dept: Acting
Geoffrey graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College with a degree in theater. During his junior year, he attended the National Theater Institute (Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Conn), and continued his training at what is now the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, in London, England.
As an actor, he has been seen on Screens large and small. Film credits include the Coen Brothers' Hail, Ceasar!, MIB3, Bird People, Beach Pillows, Syrup, Bart and Arnie's Guide to Friendship, Thanks for Sharing, The Longest Week, SAVVA, Man on a Ledge, Fair Game, Michael Mann's Public Enemies, When in Rome, The Notorious Betty Page, One Last Thing, Suburban Girl, and Heavy Petting. On TV he has been seen on Blacklist, Believe, The Americans, The Following, House of Cards, Deception, Zero Hour, Person of Interest, Pan Am, Damages, Smash, The Big C, Sopranos, Bored to Death, all of the Law & Order's, Mercy, Brotherhood, Life on Mars, Ed, Third Watch, The Bedford Diaries, The $treet, Queens' Supreme, All My Children, Guiding Light, and Spike TV's The Kill Point. He has also been involved with a number of Web-series, including The ONION, Candice Bushnell's The Broadroom, Karl Manhair-Postal Inspector, Good Medicine, and The Stay-at-Home Dad.
His Stage work Includes Side Man (Broadway), Warren Leight's Sec 310, Row D, Seats 5&6, Dinner With Friends, Julie Taymor's Titus Andronicus, Saturday Sunday Monday, Denial (Long Wharf), Talley's Folly, Romeo and Juliet (Acting Company), and Lone Star (London and Edinburgh). Geoffrey has been featured in over 200 television and radio commercials, including two award-winning campaigns: Let It Out (Kleenex--the Good Listener), and Fair Enough (part of the Truth campaign).
Geoffrey began directing in college, and in London, he developed the play-reading series Readings at One at the Duke of York's Theater in the West End. There he directed the London premier reading of Allan Knee's The Man Who was Peter Pan, upon which the film Finding Neverland was based. Other directing credits include Stripped (an original piece) in New York, For Our Daughters (Illuminart) in Staten Island, James Mclure's 1959 Pink Thunderbird (Lone Star and Laundry and Bourbon) in Brooklyn, Prey (NYfringe 2010), My Secret Public Seder (an Original Piece, written for and with members of the Bergen County JCCY), Winterglass (an original piece), and Cowboys II, by Sam Shepard.
As a coach and teacher, he has worked all over the country with actors whose credits include all the major TV shows in New York, as well as film and theater. His students have also been accepted to some of the best theater programs in the country, including Ithaca, Fordham, Emerson, Michigan, Mason Gross, and UCSD. He has also developed flexible acting curriculum and programs for actors of all ages, skill levels, and experience.
In his spare time, Geoffrey founded the The Chaucerbury Group, a Media company in New York whose clients include The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, The Children Heritage Foundation, and Columbia University.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Geoffrey Cantor
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 63
Film: 30 (48%)
Television: 33 (52%)
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Filmography
2025
When he’s pressured into attending a dinner party hosted by his boss, a man who suffers from a rare food allergy must navigate the most stressful ni ... view
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Wally
Mar 2025 (first aired)
Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk pursu ... view
Character:
Mitchell Ellison (1 ep.)
Feb 2025 (first aired)
A former U.S. President is called out of retirement to find the source of a deadly cyberattack, only to discover a vast web of lies and conspiracies. ... view
Character:
Hector Franklin (1 ep.)
Aug 2023 (first aired)
Follow Mickey Bolitar after the death of his father leads him to start a new life in suburban New Jersey. When another new student disappears, Mickey ... view
Character:
Barry 'Mr. V' Vollmer (2 ep.)
2023
A scientist tries to speak with dead people with a machine he invented. ... view
Character:
Caul
2022
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to ... view
Character:
Dr. Falk
Sep 2021 (first aired)
Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire. ... view
Character:
Ambassador Thanwall (1 ep.)
2021
A female serial killer who killed four young girls is sent away to prison, but a fifth victim escaped with her life. Twenty years later, the killer es ... view
Character:
Terry Caldwell
Apr 2021 (first aired)
The detectives of the Organized Crime Control Bureau work to dismantle New York City's most vicious and violent illegal enterprises. ... view
Character:
Dr. Stutz (1 ep.)
2020
The Brooklyn-native street basketball legend Jackie Ryan. ... view
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Peter Vecsey
2020
After 40-years of codependent marriage, a husband makes a life changing decision to ensure that he will never have to endure another waking moment wit ... view
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Judge
2020
An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving rela ... view
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David Greenbaum
Sep 2018 (first aired)
The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the ... view
Character:
Agent Fancelli (1 ep.)
Sep 2018 (first aired)
Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all o ... view
Character:
Frank (4 ep.)
2018
A right-wing talk show host's life takes a sudden turn when his 16-year-old niece comes crashing into his life. ... view
Character:
Stanley
Jan 2018 (first aired)
A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good ... view
Character:
Zip Betournay (3 ep.)
Nov 2017 (first aired)
A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy. ... view
Character:
Mitchell Ellison (2 ep.)
Sep 2017 (first aired)
The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, expl ... view
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Health Commissioner (1 ep.)
2017
Two aspiring academics and best friends take a road trip through Wisconsin to compete for the same university teaching job. ... view
Character:
Professor Gerry Williams
2017
A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wak ... view
Character:
Ostrow
Aug 2016 (first aired)
In a world where superheroes have been real for decades, an accountant with zero powers comes to realize his city is owned by a super villain. As he s ... view
Character:
Agent Adams (1 ep.)
Jun 2016 (first aired)
For two friends on the brink of losing everything, a dusty pipe dream of opening up an upscale restaurant in their hometown of the Bronx is all they h ... view
Character:
Christian (5 ep.)
2016
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back. ... view
Character:
Sid Siegelstein
Apr 2015 (first aired)
Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as ... view
Character:
Mitchell Ellison (16 ep.)
2015
After a car accident, a skeptical New Yorker must call for help on a mysterious pay phone that responds only to '411'. He gets Information, and in a t ... view
Character:
Arthur
2014
Quinn, a neurotic man, is diagnosed with a harmless eye condition and soon after his life spirals out of control. He second-guesses his plans to propo ... view
Character:
Neighbor
Sep 2014 (first aired)
Doctor Henry Morgan, New York City’s star medical examiner, has a secret. He doesn't just study the dead to solve criminal cases, he does it to solv ... view
Character:
Alienist (1 ep.)
Sep 2014 (first aired)
After years away from the CIA, Elizabeth McCord is pulled back into the political arena. The newly appointed Secretary of State is tough, fair, and sm ... view
Character:
Tom Murphy (1 ep.)
2014
Left broke and homeless by his wealthy parents' divorce, a young man moves in with an old friend and finally meets the woman of his dreams -- only to ... view
Character:
Intellectual 1 Subway
2014
An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris. ... view
Character:
Allan
2014
An animated short about four flavors of ice cream in an ice cream cart in a park. Where being popular can lead to your early demise. As can Global War ... view
Character:
Mr. Popivanoff
Sep 2013 (first aired)
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and t ... view
Character:
Phil Ryerson (2 ep.)
2013
A romantic comedy that brings together three disparate characters who are learning to face a challenging and often confusing world as they struggle to ... view
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Addict
2013
The romantic misadventures of Bert Sheering, a sophisticated, yet sexually repressed author and Arnie Hubert, an executive and unabashed ladies man. W ... view
Character:
Gerry the Editor
Feb 2013 (first aired)
Betrayed by the White House, Congressman Frank Underwood embarks on a ruthless rise to power. Blackmail, seduction and ambition are his weapons. ... view
Character:
Ben Goldstein (2 ep.)
Jan 2013 (first aired)
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an America ... view
Character:
Thane Rosenbloom (1 ep.)
Jan 2013 (first aired)
Notorious serial killer Joe Carroll, after being found guilty of murdering 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literatur ... view
Character:
Detective (1 ep.)
Sep 2012 (first aired)
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in reha ... view
Character:
Maurice Antonov (1 ep.)
Feb 2012 (first aired)
Celebrating the beauty and heartbreak of the Broadway theater, following a cross section of dreamers and schemers who all have one common desire - to ... view
Character:
Barry Schwartzman (1 ep.)
2012
An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. H ... view
Character:
Gordon Evans
Sep 2011 (first aired)
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York Ci ... view
Character:
Sebastian Alta (1 ep.)
Dec 2010 (first aired)
An intimate, authentic portrait of Hitler's Germany as recorded by the people who lived it. Never-before-seen home movies, Nazi propaganda films and p ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice) (2 ep.)
Sep 2010 (first aired)
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and hea ... view
Character:
Frank Willis (1 ep.)
2010
Night Springs is a collection of short stories that pays homage to shows like The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. It can only be found within the ... view
Character:
Alvyn Derleth / Mr. Jones
2010
A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at r ... view
Character:
Ari Fleischer
2010
Disillusioned with romance, Beth, an ambitious New Yorker, travels to Rome for her sister's wedding, where she plucks magic coins from a special fount ... view
Character:
Dr. Moscowitz (Dentist)
2009
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side o ... view
Character:
Harry Suydam
Oct 2008 (first aired)
After a car crash, police detective Sam Tyler mysteriously finds himself transported back to 1973 and still working as a detective. ... view
Character:
Ed Redlich (1 ep.)
Jul 2007 (first aired)
Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kes ... view
Character:
Clark Reinsdorf (2 ep.)
Jul 2007 (first aired)
A small group of military veterans sets out to rob a major bank in Pittsburgh. When things go awry, they're forced to take more than a dozen hostages ... view
Character:
Abe Shelton (8 ep.)
2006
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up ph ... view
Character:
Director at Audition
Mar 2006 (first aired)
At Bedford University, six students are brought together in seminar called Sex and the Human Condition. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
2005
Sixteen-year-old Dylan is dying of cancer. When a charitable organization offers to grant Dylan his final wish, the teen has a surprising request: to ... view
Character:
Raul
Mar 2005 (first aired)
The inner workings of the judicial system, beginning with the arraignment, and continuing through the prosecutors' complicated process of building a c ... view
Character:
Ronald Hardin (1 ep.)
2002
An idealistic, want-to-be fashionista lands the dream job with her favorite designer in New York City. Swept away by the glamorous facade of the fashi ... view
Character:
Fred
2002
A waiter/writer living with his dad and a neat freak who's just landed a job as a reporter in New York, meet by colliding on the Brooklyn Bridge, and ... view
Character:
Todd
2001
Ray Pluto has many problems. He is satirized in the tabloids as the "loser cop." His partner is starting to seem suspiciously attracted to him. A pair ... view
Character:
Maitre D'
Sep 2001 (first aired)
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological ... view
Character:
Ethan Lowe (1 ep.)
Ronald Hardin (1 ep.)
Will Timmons (1 ep.)
Dukay's Attorney (1 ep.)
Sep 1999 (first aired)
The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55 ... view
Character:
Lewis (1 ep.)
Sep 1999 (first aired)
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate ... view
Character:
Ed Mangini (1 ep.)
Gene Fierstein (1 ep.)
Victor (1 ep.)
1999
Drew must care for his father, a former professor who can now barely communicate due to Alzheimer. Depressed and struggling to make ends meet, an old ... view
Character:
Carter
1998
A reporter doing a story on taxidermy discovers an odd older couple that he becomes convinced are ex-Nazi's. The chief item leading to this belief is ... view
Character:
Cam
Sep 1990 (first aired)
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someo ... view
Character:
Jim Dooley (1 ep.)
Mirvis (1 ep.)
Dr. Luther Wilding (1 ep.)
Adam Stein (1 ep.)