Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and artist Eleanor Coppola has died at the age of 87.
Coppola died Friday at his home in Rutherford, California, his family said in a statement. Associated Press.
The cause of death has not been disclosed.
Coppola is best known for directing the Emmy Award-winning 1991 documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, which followed her husband Francis, who produced the 1979 war drama Apocalypse Now. It is being
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Coppola, who raised a family of filmmakers by documenting the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured Apocalypse Now, has died. (Chad Caig/Courtesy of the Coppola family, via AP)
Coppola met Francis while working as an art assistant on Roger Corman’s 1963 horror film Dementia 13, his directorial debut.
The two married in February 1963 and had three sons.
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Their son, Gian Carlo, tragically died at the age of 22 in a boating accident in 1986.
The other two children are Roman, 58; and his daughter Sophia (55) are still alive.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
