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name: "Geoffrey Nauffts"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/geoffrey-nauffts"
fi1m_id: "geoffrey-nauffts"
imdb_id: "nm0622535"
tmdb_id: 212797
wikidata_id: "Q2655883"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "3 February 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T02:46:06.179924+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Geoffrey Nauffts

## Identity

Geoffrey Nauffts

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/geoffrey-nauffts
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** geoffrey-nauffts
- **IMDb ID:** nm0622535
- **TMDB ID:** 212797
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2655883
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2655883, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0622535/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/212797

Writer. Born 3 February 1961 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 3 February 1961, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Active:** 1988–2012
- **Also known as:** 杰佛瑞·瑙福斯
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 3 acting, 1 writing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 78 (2), 1990s 79 (1), 2010s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2655883, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0622535/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/212797

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*Nashville*](https://film.one/tv/nashville-2012.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Geoffrey Nauffts is an American actor, writer and producer. Born on 3 February 1961 in Boston, Massachusetts, he trained at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a founding member of the Naked Angels theatre company.

As an actor he appeared in films including *Mississippi Burning* (1988), *Field of Dreams* (1989), *A Few Good Men* (1992) and *Unfaithful* (2002), and in television series such as *Oz* (1997), *Six Feet Under* (2001) and multiple *Law & Order* programmes. His theatre credits include Broadway roles in *A Few Good Men* and *The Full Monty*.

Nauffts has written for television on *Brothers & Sisters* (2006), *Political Animals* (2012), *Nashville* (2012) and *A Million Little Things* (2018). His play *Next Fall* premiered Off-Broadway in 2009, transferred to Broadway in 2010 and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Play.

*Sources: imdb.com, ibdb.com, metacritic.com, tvmaze.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Performed in (3)

- *A Few Good Men* (1992), Fi1m 79, as Lt. Sherby — [page](https://film.one/film/a-few-good-men.md)
- *Field of Dreams* (1989), Fi1m 83, as Boston Pump Jockey — [page](https://film.one/film/field-of-dreams.md)
- *Mississippi Burning* (1988), Fi1m 72, as Goatee — [page](https://film.one/film/mississippi-burning.md)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *Nashville* (2012), Fi1m 74, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/nashville-2012.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Grand Hotel* (2019), series, Writer
- *A Million Little Things* (2018), series, Writer
- *Somewhere Between* (2017), series, Teleplay
- *Match* (2014), as Daryl
- *Nashville* (2012), series, Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/nashville-2012.md)
- *Political Animals* (2012), series, Writer
- *Lipstick Jungle* (2008), series, as Advertisting guy
- *Flannel Pajamas* (2006), as Peter
- *Melinda and Melinda* (2004), as Bud
- *Fargo* (2003), as Sonny Anderson
- *Unfaithful* (2002), as Jeff
- *Jenifer* (2001), Writer, Story
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Dale Van Acker, Brendan Keele
- *Six Feet Under* (2001), series, as Dr. DiPaolo — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md)
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Steve Abruzzo, Frank Martin
- *Baby Steps* (1999), as Robert Conn · Writer, Director
- *Advice From a Caterpillar* (1999), as Cater Waiter
- *From the Earth to the Moon* (1998), series, as Ed Gibson
- *Oz* (1997), series, as Clifford Sprague — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/oz.md)
- *If These Walls Could Talk* (1996), as Angry Man
- *Nash Bridges* (1996), series, as John Scott
- *The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.* (1994), as Josh
- *Touched by an Angel* (1994), series, as Isaac 'Zach' Brown
- *Homicide: Life on the Street* (1993), series, as Gerry Uba — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/tv/homicide-life-on-the-street.md)
- *A Few Good Men* (1992), as Lt. Sherby — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/a-few-good-men.md)
- *A House of Secrets and Lies* (1992), as Brian
- *The Commish* (1991), series, as Stan Kelly
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Peterson, Jamie Cullen — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *Field of Dreams* (1989), as Boston Pump Jockey — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/field-of-dreams.md)
- *Mississippi Burning* (1988), as Goatee — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/mississippi-burning.md)
- *Murphy Brown* (1988), series, as Jeff — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/murphy-brown.md)
- *The Pick-up Artist* (1987), as Stewart
- *The Manhattan Project* (1986), as Craig

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play 2010: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Play 2010: Tony Award for Best Play (nominated), for *Next Fall*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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