Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Born 07/04/1939 (85 years old)
Detroit, Michigan, USA

Biography (3)

F.F. Coppola emerged as a young ambitious director and screenwriter in the second half of the sixties. During the seventies he became a successful author of expensive and artistically ambitious films. He gained renown for the first two parts of The Godfather saga. He won two Golden Palms (The Conversation, Apocalypse Now). His latest films (Tetro, Twixt) were not so well received.

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Director

Screenwriter

Producer

Composer

Movies
1979

Apocalypse Now

Actor

Movies
2013

Palo Alto

1994

The World of Jim Henson (TV movie)

1979

Apocalypse Now

1963

The Young Racers

1962

War Hunt

Documentaries
2023

Dorothy Arzner, Pioneer, Queer, Feminist (TV movie)

2022

Light & Magic (series) - a.f.

 

On the Bucking Bronco - a.f. (E02)

2021

Morceaux de Cannes (TV movie) - a.f.

2020

Stewart Copeland's Adventures in Music (series)

 

The Directors (series) - a.f.

 

Francis Ford Coppola - a.f. (S05E01)

 

Wim Wenders, Desperado

2019

Hardball: The Girls of Summer

2018

American Dream: Detroit

 

Friedkin Uncut

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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

2017

André

 

Behind the Scenes - a.f.

 

Five Came Back (series)

 

The Price of Victory (E03)

 

Combat Zones (E02)

 

The Mission Begins (E01)

 

Spielberg (TV movie)

2015

Artistry/Technology

 

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

 

Listen to Me Marlon - a.f.

 

Once in a Lew Moon - a.f.

2013

Milius

 

Seduced And Abandoned

 

Trespassing Bergman

2012

The Godfather Legacy (TV movie)

2011

The Story of Film: An Odyssey (series) - a.f.

2010

Sodankylä ikuisesti (series)

 

The People vs. George Lucas

2009

Hollywood's Best Film Directors (series)

 

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

2008

Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'

 

Godfather World

 

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

 

When the Shooting Stopped

2007

Coda: Thirty Years Later (TV movie)

 

In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

 

Lights! Action! Music! (TV movie)

 

Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'

 

The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

 

The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka

2006

Celebrating Schlesinger

 

The Godfather and the Mob (TV movie)

2005

Inside Deep Throat

 

Movies That Shook the World (series)

 

There Is No Direction

2004

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

 

Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate - a.f.

2003

A Decade Under the Influence

 

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

 

Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig

2002

The Kid Stays in the Picture

2001

Breaking the Silence: The Making of 'Hannibal'

 

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome (TV movie)

1999

Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (TV movie)

 

The Unauthorized Star Wars Story

1998

The Making of 'American Graffiti' (TV movie)

1996

Marlon Brando: The Wild One (TV movie)

1995

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (TV movie)

1994

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein (TV movie)

1993

George Lucas: Heroes, Myths and Magic (TV movie)

1992

Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies. (TV movie)

 

Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro

1991

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

1990

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (TV movie)

1987

Frontline (series) - a.f.

 

Death of a Porn Queen - a.f. (S05E13)

1986

The Making of 'Captain Eo' (TV movie)

1982

Reverse Angle (TV movie)

1981

American Mythologies (TV movie)

1979

Cultural Celebrities

1975

The Lion Roars Again

1971

Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'

1968

Filmmaker

 

The New Cinema (TV movie)

Theatrical recording
2016

Sofia Coppola's La Traviata

Short
1975

The Godfather Comes to Sixth St.

Editor

Movies
2000

Supernova

Performer