Eleanor Coppola

Biography

Eleanor Jessie Coppola (née Neil; May 4, 1936 – April 12, 2024) was an American documentary film director, screenwriter, and artist. She was married to director Francis Ford Coppola from 1963 until her death. She was best-known for her 1991 documentary film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as well as other documentaries chronicling the films of her husband and children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eleanor Coppola, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Directed

1. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) — Director
2. Paris Can Wait (2016) — Director
3. Love Is Love Is Love (2021) — Director
4. Coda: Thirty Years Later (2007) — Director
5. The Making of The Virgin Suicides (2000) — Director
6. The Making of Marie Antoinette (2007) — Director
7. A Visit to China’s Miao Country (1996) — Director
8. Peeling a Potato Is a Work of Art (1976) — Director
9. Victorian House (1976) — Director
10. Joyce Goldstein (1976) — Director
11. Refrigerator (1976) — Director
12. Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' (2007) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) — Self
2. The Rain People (1969) — Gordon's Wife (uncredited)
3. Megadoc (2025) — Self
4. A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope (2004) — Self
5. Coda: Thirty Years Later (2007) — Self
6. The Making of The Virgin Suicides (2000) — Self
7. Ryska Alaska (1992) — Self
8. Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto (2014) — Self
9. On the Set of CQ (2002) — Self
10. A Visit to China’s Miao Country (1996) — Narrator
11. Tell Them We Were Here (2021) — Self
12. Eleanor Coppola: Art is All Around Us (2025) — Herself