American director: Francis Ford Coppola’s wife Eleanor has died

American director
Francis Ford Coppola’s wife, Eleanor has died

Eleanor Coppola sits at her home in Los Angeles in January 1992. photo

They were married for 61 years – now the wife of Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola has died at the age of 87. Eleanor Coppola also worked as a writer and director.

American director Eleanor Coppola, who was married to Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola (85) for more than 60 years, died on Friday in Rutherford, northern California, the family announced. The California native was 87. Family was close to him, they said. She was the mother of director Sofia Coppola (52, “Lost in Translation”) and filmmaker Roman Coppola (58). The couple’s first son, Gian Carlo, died in a boating accident in 1986 at the age of 22.

As a young arts and crafts student, he met Coppola in 1962 while filming his first film, “Dementia 13,” and they married a year later. Director of international hits like “Apocalypse Now” and the trilogy “The Godfather” often accompanied him to the filming locations, for example in the jungle of the Philippines for the war epic “Apocalypse Now” (1979). Eleanor Coppola held an exciting production with the main actors Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen and his documentary “Journey into the Heart of Darkness”.

At the age of 80, the matriarch of the film dynasty made her first film, for which she also wrote the script. In the romantic road movie “Paris Can Wait” (2016) with Alec Baldwin and Diane Lane, Coppola drew on his own experiences. Baldwin plays a busy Hollywood producer, his wife Lane, who accompanies him on a business trip to Cannes. He has to leave in a hurry to the set in Budapest, he has an earache and doesn’t want to fly. In an emergency, a French business partner (Arnaud Viard) steps in and takes him to Paris as a driver.

When she accompanied her husband to Cannes in 2009, that’s exactly what happened, Eleanor Coppola told the “San Francisco Chronicle” about her road trip before the film’s release. “We ended up traveling for 48 hours, there were a lot of stops, a lot of food and wine, and Francis kept calling because he was wondering where I was.”

In 2020, he directed the drama “Love Is Love Is Love” and three stories about love and loyalty between couples and friends. In interviews and in her 2008 memoir “Notes on Life,” Coppola spoke openly about depression, the death of her eldest son and the struggle to put her creativity behind her husband’s work.

Francis Ford Coppola, who celebrated his 85th birthday at the beginning of April, has completed his long-term project “Megalopolis” with a budget of millions from his own pocket. Futuristic Utopia starring Adam Driver and Laurence Fishburne, set in futuristic New York, will be screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

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American director Francis Ford Coppola’s wife, Eleanor has died

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