Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer whose career spans more than sixty years. Coppola has directed twenty-three feature films to date.
His films The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now are often cited among the greatest films ever made.[1]
Coppola has, since 2000, issued new versions of several of his films, including Apocalypse Now: Redux (2001), The Outsiders: The Complete Novel (2005), The Cotton Club: Encore (2017), Apocalypse Now Final Cut (2019), and The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (2020), among others.[2]
Film
edit| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Dementia 13 | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1966 | You're a Big Boy Now | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1968 | Finian's Rainbow | Yes | No | No | |
| 1969 | The Rain People | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1972 | The Godfather | Yes | Yes | No | Co-writer with Mario Puzo |
| 1974 | The Conversation | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| The Godfather Part II | Yes | Yes | Yes | Co-writer with Mario Puzo | |
| 1979 | Apocalypse Now | Yes | Yes | Yes | Co-writer with John Milius and Michael Herr; also composer with Carmine Coppola; Cameo: TV News Director |
| 1982 | One from the Heart | Yes | Yes | No | Co-writer with Armyan Bernstein |
| 1983 | The Outsiders | Yes | No | No | |
| Rumble Fish | Yes | Yes | Executive | Co-writer with S. E. Hinton | |
| 1984 | The Cotton Club | Yes | Yes | No | Co-writer with William Kennedy |
| 1986 | Captain EO | Yes | Yes | No | Short film; co-written with George Lucas and Rusty Lemorande |
| Peggy Sue Got Married | Yes | No | No | ||
| 1987 | Gardens of Stone | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 1988 | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | Yes | No | No | |
| 1989 | New York Stories | Yes | Yes | No | Segment: "Life Without Zoë"; co-writer with Sofia Coppola |
| 1990 | The Godfather Part III | Yes | Yes | Yes | Co-writer with Mario Puzo |
| 1992 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 1996 | Jack | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 1997 | The Rainmaker | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2007 | Youth Without Youth | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2009 | Tetro | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2011 | Twixt | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2024 | Megalopolis | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Writer only
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Is Paris Burning? | René Clément | Co-writer with Gore Vidal, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost and Claude Brulé |
| This Property Is Condemned | Sydney Pollack | Co-writer with Fred Coe and Edith Sommer | |
| 1970 | Patton | Frank McCarthy | Co-writer with Edmund H. North |
| 1974 | The Great Gatsby | Jack Clayton |
Producer only
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | American Graffiti | George Lucas | |
| 1994 | Don Juan DeMarco | Jeremy Leven | Co-produced with Fred Fuchs and Patrick Palmer |
| The Junky's Christmas | Nick Donkin | Short film[3] | |
| Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Kenneth Branagh | Co-produced with James V. Hart and John Veitch | |
| 1999 | The Florentine | Nick Stagliano | Co-produced with Nick Stagliano and Steven Weisman |
| The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola | Co-produced with Julie Costanzo, Chris Hanley and Dan Halsted |
Executive producer only
Other roles
edit| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 | The Magic Voyage of Sinbad | Screen adaptation and English-language re-editing of Sadko |
| 1959 | Battle Beyond the Sun | Shot new footage and re-edited for American release 1962 of Mikhail Karyukov and Aleksandr Kozyr Nebo Zovyot, credited as Thomas Colchart, associate producer |
| 1962 | The Bellboy and the Playgirls | Shot and wrote new footage for American release of Fritz Umgelter's film |
| The Premature Burial | 2nd unit director | |
| Tonight for Sure | Re-edit with new footage of Wide Open Spaces | |
| Tower of London | Assistant director | |
| 1963 | The Haunted Palace | |
| The Young Racers | 2nd unit director | |
| The Terror | Associate producer, replaced Roger Corman as director for 11 days[4] | |
| 1968 | The Wild Racers | 2nd unit director |
| 1982 | Hammett |
Recurring collaborators
editAt the beginning of his career, Coppola assisted on a number of Roger Corman-directed films.[5] Throughout his career, Coppola has repeatedly cast certain actors for his film projects. Singer-songwriter Tom Waits has appeared in six of his films, Robert Duvall and Laurence Fishburne have both appeared in five, and James Caan, Diane Lane, Frederic Forrest and Glenn Withrow have all appeared in four. Coppola worked with production designer Dean Tavoularis on several films beginning with The Godfather through Jack.[6]
Television
edit| Year | Title | Director | Executive Producer |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Jerry Brown: The Shape of Things to Come | Yes | Yes | Live broadcast |
| 1986 | Saturday Night Live | Yes | No | Episode: "George Wendt and Francis Ford Coppola/Philip Glass" |
| 1987 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Yes | Yes | Episode: "Rip Van Winkle" |
Producer only
edit| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | The Outsiders | 13 episodes Adaptation of 1983 film |
| 1995 | Tecumseh: The Last Warrior | TV movie |
| 1996 | Dark Angel | |
| 1997 | Survival on the Mountain | |
| The Odyssey | Miniseries | |
| 1998 | Outrage | TV movie |
| Moby Dick | Miniseries | |
| 1998–2001 | First Wave | 65 episodes |
| 2000 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | TV movie |
| 2003 | Platinum | 6 episodes |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | The Junky's Christmas | TV movie |
| 1995 | White Dwarf | |
| Kidnapped |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "AFI's 100 Greatest American Films of All Time" - 2.The Godfather (1972) 30.Apocalypse Now (1979) 32.The Godfather II (1974)." American Film Institute. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
- ^ Adamson, Dylan (2024-05-10). "Continuity Errors: On the New Old Films of Francis Ford Coppola". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
- ^ LoBrutto, Vincent; Morrison, Harriet R. (2012). The Coppolas: A Family Business. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780313391613.
- ^ Goldman, C. (1971). "An interview with ROGER CORMAN". Film Comment.
- ^ "Roger Corman", Wikipedia, 2024-10-23, retrieved 2024-10-29
- ^ "Dean Tavoularis | Production Designer, Art Director, Art Department". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
