Eleanor Coppola, matriarch of the filmmaking Coppola family, has died at 87. She won an Emmy for ‘Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,’ which documented the making of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now.’
Eleanor Coppola, a writer and director who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola's iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of Apocalypse Now, and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87.