The original 22-member Board of Trustees included Chair Gregory Peck and Vice Chair Sidney Poitier as well as Francis Ford Coppola, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Jack Valenti and other representatives from the arts and academia.

* 1881 – Francis Ford, American actor ( d. 1953 )

* 1939 – Francis Ford Coppola, American director

Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation plots were used for the basis of Blow Out.

His contemporaries include Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, John Milius, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, John Carpenter, and Ridley Scott.

He is known for his roles as Westley in the cult classic The Princess Bride, Arthur Holmwood in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and for his role as Dr. Lawrence Gordon in Saw.

Francis Ford Coppola directed The Godfather ( 1972 ).

Another example is Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux, which, like the original film, polarized the audience, with some fans considering the original version to be the definitive cut.

Francis Ford Coppola (, ; born April 7, 1939 )

Francis Ford Coppola at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

Francis Ford Coppola at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Coppola also owns Francis Ford Coppola Winery near Geyserville, California where he has opened a family-friendly facility with swimming pools, bocce courts and a restaurant.

Coppola is also the owner of Francis Ford Coppola Presents, a lifestyle brand under which he markets goods from companies he owns or controls.

Coppola serves as the " Honorary Consul H. E. Francis Ford Coppola " for the Central American nation of Belize in San Francisco.

He became the fourth two-time recipient, joining Alf Sjöberg, Francis Ford Coppola and Bille August.

Their daughter, Catherine, married Francis Hueffer ; through Catherine, Brown was the grandfather of novelist Ford Madox Ford and great-grandfather of Labour Home Secretary Frank Soskice.

He appeared at the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in 2007 with Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola to present the Best Director award to their friend Martin Scorsese.

" In the same year, he was invited by Francis Ford Coppola to recruit a production staff for American Zoetrope's One from the Heart ( 1982 ).

He followed this with leading roles in the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation ( 1974 ), which was nominated for several Oscars.

The most famous adaptation is Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 motion picture Apocalypse Now, which moves the story from the Congo to Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

Voight took a supporting role in The Rainmaker, adopted from the John Grisham novel and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

The 1960s proved to be a fallow decade for Brando, and after 10 years in which he did not appear in a commercially successful movie, he won his second Academy Award for playing Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather ( 1972 ), a role critics consider among his greatest.

Director Francis Ford Coppola convinced Brando to submit to a " make-up " test, in which Brando did his own makeup ( he used cotton balls to simulate the puffed-cheek look ).

Brando starred as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now.

Elwes also appeared in such films as Francis Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Crush, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Twister, Liar Liar, Cradle Will Rock, The Cat's Meow and Kiss the Girls.

Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote a particularly scathing review, stating that " It's impossible to know what Francis Coppola's Life Without Zoe is.

* After its initial release, Paramount bought the worldwide distribution rights to Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now ( on behalf of Coppola's company American Zoetrope ).

1992 also saw Waits featuring in Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula, as the possessed lunatic Renfield.

The feature film was produced in a joint venture between Warner Brothers and Francis Ford Coppola's production company, American Zoetrope.

Her film debut was a small part in Francis Ford Coppola's 1982 film One from the Heart.

Eastwood was then offered the role of Benjamin L. Willard in Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now, but declined as he did not want to spend weeks on location in the Philippines.

After director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, he hired Ford to expand his office and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation ( 1974 ) and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ); in the latter film he played a smarmy officer named " G.

Kilmer turned down a role in Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film, The Outsiders, as he had prior theatre commitments.

In 1983, Stewart Copeland composed the musical score for Francis Ford Coppola's film Rumble Fish.

The Godfather DVD Collection was released on October 9, 2001 in a package that contained all three films — each with a commentary track by Coppola — and a bonus disc that featured a 73-minute documentary from 1991 entitled The Godfather Family: A Look Inside and other miscellany about the film: the additional scenes originally contained in The Godfather Saga ; Francis Coppola's Notebook ( a look inside a notebook the director kept with him at all times during the production of the film ); rehearsal footage ; a promotional featurette from 1971 ; and video segments on Gordon Willis's cinematography, Nino Rota's and Carmine Coppola's music, the director, the locations and Mario Puzo's screenplays.

The scene is perhaps the best example of Eisenstein's theory on montage, and many films pay homage to the scene, including Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, Tibor Takacs ' Deathline, Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box, George Lucas's Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Chandrashekhar Narvekar's Hindi film Tezaab, Shukō Murase's anime Ergo Proxy and Peter Sellers ' The Magic Christian.

Cast as Captain Willard in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Keitel was involved with the first week of principal photography in the Philippines.

( Cimino had expressed his wish to surpass Francis Ford Coppola's mark of shooting one million feet of footage for Apocalypse Now.

He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ).

Fishburne later earned a supporting role in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, in which he played a 17-year-old sailor nicknamed ' Mr. Clean '.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

In 1979, they advanced to the final of the European Cup defeating AS Monaco, Dynamo Kiew, Wisla Krakow and Austria Vienna but lost in the final at the Munich Olympic Stadium against Nottingham Forest by a single goal just before half time scored by Trevor Francis.

* 1979 – Francis Lessard, Canadian ice hockey player

* Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) — winner of two Academy Awards, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Aguirre ’ s visual style and narrative elements had a strong influence on Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

* Barry Francis – guitar ( 1979 )

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Harris received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, in 1979, and then studied under Christian theologian Francis Schaeffer at the L ' Abri community in Huemoz, Switzerland, not far from Lausanne.

* Paris: Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Louis le Brocquy, Images de W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Federico García Lorca, Auguste Strindberg, Francis Bacon, November 27-December 27, 1979.

Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now centers on the protagonist's mission to find and kill the renegade Colonel Kurtz, based on Conrad's character, who has gone rogue far up a river, deep in the Southeast Asian jungle.

Sam Francis in his Santa Monica Studio, 1979: Photo by Meibao D. Nee

* Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) – Francis Coppola

They had twelve children, six boys and six girls: Oliver William Foster ( 1878 – 1955 ), Francis Brodie ( 1880 – 1967 ), Alec ( 1881 – 1938 ), Lionel ( 1883 – 1948 ), Noel ( 1885 – 1962 ), Violet ( 1888 – 1924 ), Raymond ( 1889 – 1915 ), Honor ( 1891 – 1979 ), Lorna ( 1892 – 1987 ), Norah ( 1894 – 1990 ), Barbara ( 1896 – 1983 ), and Rosalynde ( 1896 – 1983 ).

Her first appearance in a U. S. movie would have been in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), but her scenes — a long sequence where Captain Willard ( Martin Sheen ) meets French former colonists — were eventually cut from the film and only restored in 2001 in the Redux version.

It was subsequently widened between 1886 – 93 by Francis Brady and extensively renovated between 1979 – 82, which resulted in many of its ornamental features being removed and the structure taking on an even more utilitarian appearance than before.

* Francis Ford Coppola in 1979

Francis was educated at the Johns Hopkins University ( Bachelor of Arts, 1969 ) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC ), from which he received a Ph. D. in modern history in 1979.

Forest won the League Cup again in 1979 – this time Shilton played as they defeated Southampton 3 – 2 at Wembley – before reaching the European Cup final where a Trevor Francis goal was enough to beat Swedish side Malmö in Munich.

* 1979: Francis Pym MP

Francis Ford Coppola ’ s Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) went so far as to not feature the title at all, except briefly as graffiti in Colonel Kurtz ’ ( Brando ) compound.

* Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) ( directed by Francis Ford Coppola )