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Name
Francis Ford Coppola

Known For
Directing

Birthday
1939-04-07 (87 years old)

Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA

Biography

Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American filmmaker. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most celebrated and influential film directors. He epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, which included George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Woody Allen and William Friedkin, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary filmmaking.

He co-authored the script for Patton, winning the Academy Award in 1970. His directorial fame escalated with the release of The Godfather in 1972. The film revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, garnering universal laurels from critics and public alike. It went on to win three Academy Awards, including his second, which he won for Best Adapted Screenplay, and it was instrumental in cementing his position as one of the prominent American film directors. Coppola followed it with an equally successful sequel The Godfather Part II, which became the first ever sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film received yet higher praises than its predecessor, and gave him three Academy Awards—for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture. In the same year was released The Conversation, which he directed, produced and wrote. The film went on to win the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. His next directorial venture was Apocalypse Now in 1979, and it was as notorious for its lengthy and troubled production as it was critically acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War. It won his second Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.

Although some of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and early 1990s were critically lauded, Coppola's later work has not met the same level of critical and commercial success as his '70s films.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1994 It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
1991 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as Self
2010 A Conversation with Martin Sheen as Self
1997 A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola as Self
2009 I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
2014 Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance as Self (archive footage)
2015 Practical Magicians: A Collaboration Between Father and Son as Self
2015 Reflections in Blood: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker’s Dracula as Self
2007 Coda: Thirty Years Later as Self
2007 Fog City Mavericks as Self
2023 The Family as Self
1968 The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow' as Self
1990 The Godfather Family: A Look Inside as Self
1986 The Making of Captain EO as Self
2005 Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa as Self
2008 Cannoli as Self
1999 Kurosawa: The Last Emperor as Self
2013 Seduced and Abandoned as Self
1992 Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro as Self
2004 A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope as Self
2013 Milius as Self
2021 Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
2005 George Lucas: Creating an Empire as Self
2004 Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138' as Self
1976 The Godfather Comes to Sixth St. as Self
2004 The Dream Studio as self
2022 Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called as Self (archive footage)
1971 Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138' as Self
1991 Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper as Self
2012 The Godfather Legacy as Self
1996 Vem Var Dracula as Self
2010 The People vs. George Lucas as Self (archive footage)
1962 War Hunt as Army Truck Driver (uncredited)
1968 Filmmaker as Self
2019 Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound as Self (archive footage)
2019 What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael as Self
1971 The Godfather: Behind the Scenes as Self
2017 Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story as Self
1999 Coppola, un hombre y sus sueños as Self
2007 Brando as Self (archive footage)
1992 Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies as Self
1963 The Young Racers as (uncredited)
2025 Megadoc as Self
1998 The Making of 'American Graffiti' as Self
1968 The New Cinema as Self
1981 Inside the Coppola Personality as Self
2006 The Godfather and the Mob as Self (archive footage)
1979 Apocalypse Now as Director of TV Crew (uncredited)
2016 Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos as Self
2003 A Decade Under the Influence as Self
2015 Listen to Me Marlon as Self (archive footage)
2017 Five Came Back as Self
1981 Rendez-Vous Video Magazine as Self (segment "Coppola")
2017 Spielberg as Self
1982 Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982 as Self
1990 Martin Scorsese Directs as Self
2013 Trespassing Bergman as Self
2018 American Dream: Detroit as Self - Interviewee
2016 The Family Whistle as Self
1990 Central Park as Self
2018 Friedkin Uncut as Self
2014 Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto as Self
2018 Godfather I as Self
1990 Hollywood Mavericks as Self
Soon Art Never Sleeps as Self
2003 Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig as Self
2008 Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather' as Self
2000 The Making of The Virgin Suicides as Self
2014 Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
1994 Marlon Brando: The Wild One as Self
2018 Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema as Self
1982 The Making of 'One from the Heart' as Self
1994 The World of Jim Henson as Self
2014 Henri Langlois vu par... as Self
2013 Twixt: A Documentary as Self
2014 Palo Alto as The Judge (voice) (uncredited)
2007 Lights, Action, Music as Self
2007 The Making of Marie Antoinette as Self
2020 Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self
2019 Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back as Self
2001 R2-D2: Beneath the Dome as Self
2007 The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka as Self
2007 The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' as Self (archive footage)
2007 In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' as Self
2007 Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula' as Self
2008 The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped as Self
2008 The Last Days of Marlon Brando as Self (archive Footage)
1975 The Lion Roars Again as Self
2004 Tying the Knot as Self
2001 Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal as Self
2021 Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2008 The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't as Self
2021 Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola as Self
2005 Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders' as Self
1985 Inside Mishima as Self
2005 Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa as Self
2024 Lumière, Le Cinéma! as Self
2015 Artistry/Technology as Self
2025 Films to Die For as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2005 Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found as Self
2003 Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
1987 Death of a Porn Queen as Self (archive footage)
2005 On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' as Self (archive footage)
2023 Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025 Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us as Himself
2025 The Making of Hearts of Darkness as Himself
2007 Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' as Self
2002 On the Set of CQ as Self
2021 Morceaux de Cannes
2024 Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master as Self (archive) - director
2025 Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2026 Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life as Self
2026 Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean as Self

1953 The Oscars ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2014 The Director's Chair ( 1 episode ) as Self
2017 Five Came Back ( 3 episodes ) as Self
2004 Leçon de Cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self
1974 Spécial cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
1974 Dinah! ( 1 episode ) as Self
1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche ( 1 episode ) as Self
2015 Jay Leno's Garage ( 1 episode ) as Self
1994 Inside the Actors Studio ( 1 episode ) as Self
1977 Please Turn the Page ( 1 episode ) as Self
2017 Marcians ( 1 episode ) as Self
1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode ) as Self
2023 Beau geste ( 1 episode ) as Self
2023 Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2009 C à vous ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2020 Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen ( 4 episodes ) as Self
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self
1996 The Daily Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2021 Directors on Directors ( 1 episode ) as Self
1961 The Mike Douglas Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
1987 Sacrée soirée ( 1 episode ) as Self
2022 LIGHT & MAGIC ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
1978 The Kennedy Center Honors ( 1 episode ) as Self - Honoree
2010 Sodankylä Forever ( 4 episodes ) as Self
1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Director
1971 Film '72 ( 1 episode ) as Self
1982 Late Night with David Letterman ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2022 Dans les secrets des films Star Wars ( 6 episodes ) as Self ( Archives)
1975 Arena ( 1 episode ) as Self

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