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Coppola—THE GODFATHER —3since The Godfather. Some of his other films are Angel Eyes / Ojos deángel 2001, The Ninth Gate 1999, The Parent Trap 1998, Bulworth1998, Jack 1996, Rising Sun 1993, Final Analysis 1992, TheGodfather: Part III 1990, New York Stories 1989, Tucker: The Manand His Dream 1988, Gardens of Stone 1987, Peggy Sue Got Married1986, Rumble Fish 1983, The Outsiders 1983, Hammett 1982, TheEscape Artist 1982, One from the Heart 1982, Apocalypse Now 1979,The Brink's Job 1978, Farewell, My Lovely 1975, The Godfather: PartII 1974, The Conversation 1974, The Godfather 1972, Little Big Man1970, Zabriskie Point 1970, and Candy 1968. He was nominated forfive Oscars and won one: The Godfather: Part II.WALTER MURCH (12 July 1943, New York City, New York)invented the idea of films having a sound designer. He has donesound for 24 films, among them Tetro 2009, Youth Without Youth2007, Cold Mountain 2003, K-19: The Widowmaker 2002, TheTalented Mr. Ripley 1999, Touch of Evil 1958 (sound re-recordist,1998 restoration), The English Patient 1996, Crumb 1994, Romeo IsBleeding 1993, The Godfather: Part III 1990, Ghost 1990, ApocalypseNow 1979, The Godfather: Part II 1974, The Conversation 1974,American Graffiti 1973, THX 1138 1971, Gimme Shelter 1970, andThe Rain People 1969. He has also edited 22 films, some of which areThe Wolfman 2010, Tetro 2009, Youth Without Youth 2007, Jarhead2005, Cold Mountain2003, K-19: TheWidowmaker 2002,The Talented Mr.Ripley 1999, Touch ofEvil 1958 (1998 reedit), The EnglishPatient 1996, Romeo IsBleeding 1993, House ofCards 1993, TheGodfather: Part III1990, The UnbearableLightness of Being 1988,Apocalypse Now 1979,and Julia 1977. He hasbeen nominated fornine Oscars and wonthree: Apocalypse Now(sound), The EnglishPatient (sound andfilm editing). He is theauthor of two excellentbooks on film editing,In the Blink of An Eye2nd ed., 2001, and The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art ofEditing Film (with Michael Ondaatje) 2004.MARLON BRANDO (3 April 1924, Omaha, Nebraska—1 July 2004,Los Angeles, California) appeared in 42 films, some of which wereThe Score 2001, The Island of Dr. Moreau 1996, Don Juan DeMarco1994, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery 1992, The Freshman1990, A Dry White Season 1989, The Formula 1980, Apocalypse Now1979, "Roots: The Next Generations" 1979, Superman 1978, TheMissouri Breaks 1976, Ultimo tango a Parigi / Last Tango in Paris1972, The Godfather 1972, The Nightcomers 1971, Burn! 1969, TheNight of the Following Day 1968, Candy 1968, Reflections in a GoldenEye 1967, A Countess from Hong Kong 1967, The Appaloosa 1966, TheChase 1966, The Ugly American 1963, Mutiny on the Bounty 1962,One-Eyed Jacks 1961, The Fugitive Kind 1960, The Young Lions 1958,Sayonara 1957, The Teahouse of the August Moon 1956, Guys andDolls 1955/I, Desirée 1954, On the Waterfront 1954, The Wild One1953, Julius Caesar 1953, Viva Zapata! 1952, A Streetcar NamedDesire 1951, and The Men 1950.AL PACINO (25 April 1940, New York City, New York) hasappeared in 46 theatrical and made-for-tv films, among them TheSon of No One 2011, “You Don't Know Jack” 2010, Ocean's Thirteen2007, The Merchant of Venice 2004, "Angels in America" 2003,Insomnia 2002/I, Any Given Sunday 1999, The Devil's Advocate 1997,Donnie Brasco 1997, City Hall 1996, Heat 1995, Carlito's Way 1993,Scent of a Woman 1992, Glengarry Glen Ross 1992, The Godfather:Part III 1990, Dick Tracy 1990, Scarface 1983, Cruising 1980, .AndJustice for All. 1979, Bobby Deerfield 1977, Dog Day Afternoon 1975,The Godfather: Part II 1974, Serpico 1973, Scarecrow 1973, TheGodfather 1972, The Panic in Needle Park 1971, and Me, Natalie1969.JAMES CAAN (26 March 1940, The Bronx, New York) has been in102 films and tv series, among them Minkow 2010, Henry's Crime2010, Cloudy with aChance of Meatballs2009, New York, I LoveYou 2009, Get Smart2008, “Wisegal” 2008,"Las Vegas" 2003-7, ThisThing of Ours 2003,Dogville 2003, The Way ofthe Gun 2000, MickeyBlue Eyes 1999,Bulletproof 1996, Eraser1996, Bottle Rocket 1996,Misery 1990, Dick Tracy1990, Alien Nation 1988,Gardens of Stone 1987,Kiss Me Goodbye 1982,Thief 1981, Hide in PlainSight 1980, Chapter Two1979, 1941 1979, Comes aHorseman 1978, A BridgeToo Far 1977, Harry andWalter Go to New York1976, The Killer Elite1975, Rollerball 1975,Funny Lady 1975, The Godfather: Part II 1974, Freebie and the Bean1974, The Gambler 1974, Cinderella Liberty 1973, Slither 1973, TheGodfather 1972, “Brian's Song” 1971, Rabbit, Run 1970, The RainPeople 1969, "Get Smart" 1969, Submarine X-1 1968, "Wagon Train"1965, "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" 1964, Lady in a Cage 1964, Irmala Douce 1963, and "Naked City" 1961.RICHARD S. CASTELLANO (4 September 1933, The Bronx, NewYork—10 December 1988, North Bergen, New Jersey) appeared in18 films and tv series, some of which were Dear Mr. Wonderful 1982,"The Gangster Chronicles" 1981, Gangster Wars 1981, Night of theJuggler 1980, "Joe and Sons" 1975-1976, “Honor Thy Father” 1973,

Coppola—THE GODFATHER —4“Incident on a Dark Street” 1973, "The Super" 1972, The Godfather1972, "N.Y.P.D." 1968-1969, and "Naked City" 1962-1963.ROBERT DUVALL (5 January 1931, San Diego, California) has beenin 134 films and TV series or programs, the most recent of which isCrazy Heart 2009. Some of the others are Get Low 2009, The Road2009, Thank You for Smoking 2005, Assassination Tango 2002, A CivilAction 1998, The Apostle 1997, “The Man Who Captured Eichmann”1996, Sling Blade 1996, The Scarlet Letter 1995, Geronimo: AnAmerican Legend 1993, Falling Down 1993, “Stalin” 1992, Convicts1991, The Handmaid's Tale 1990, "Lonesome Dove" 1989, Colors1988, Let's Get Harry 1986, Belizaire the Cajun 1986, The Natural1984, Tender Mercies 1983, The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper 1981, TrueConfessions 1981, The Great Santini 1979, Apocalypse Now 1979,Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978, The Betsy 1978, The Eagle HasLanded 1976, Network 1976, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution 1976, TheKiller Elite 1975, The Godfather: Part II 1974, The Conversation1974, The Outfit 1973, Badge 373 1973, Lady Ice 1973, Joe Kidd 1972,The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid 1972, The Godfather 1972,THX 1138 1971, MASH 1970, "The F.B.I." 1965-1969, The RainPeople 1969, True Grit 1969, The Detective 1968, "The Wild WildWest" 1967, "The Defenders" 1961-1965, "The Fugitive" 1963-1965,"The Outer Limits" 1964, CaptainNewman, M.D. 1963, To Kill aMockingbird 1962, "Naked City"1962, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"1962, "Armstrong Circle Theatre"1959-1960, and "Playhouse 90"1960.STERLING HAYDEN (26 March1916, Upper Montclair, NewJersey—23 May 1986, Sausalito,California) appeared in 70 filmsand TV series, among them, "TheBlue and the Gray" 1982, Venom1981, Gas 1981, Nine to Five 1980,Winter Kills 1979, King of theGypsies 1978, 1900 1976, The Long Goodbye 1973, The Godfather1972, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Lovethe Bomb 1964, "The DuPont Show of the Month" 1960, "GoodyearTheatre" 1958, "Playhouse 90" 1957-1958, Five Steps to Danger 1957,The Killing 1956, Top Gun 1955, The Last Command 1955, NakedAlibi 1954, Johnny Guitar 1954, Prince Valiant 1954, Flat Top 1952,Flaming Feather 1952, The Asphalt Jungle 1950, Blaze of Noon 1947,and Virginia 1947.JOHN MARLEY (17 October 1907, New York City, New York—22May 1984, Los Angeles, California) appeared 155 films and TVseries, among them On the Edge 1986, “The Glitter Dome” 1984, TheAmateur 1981, "The Incredible Hulk" 1979, "Hawaii Five-O" 19691978, The Greatest 1977, "Baretta" 1975, "Cannon" 1972-1973, TheGodfather 1972, "The Bill Cosby Show" 1971, Love Story 1970, Faces1968/I, "Bonanza" 1968, "Gunsmoke" 1965, Cat Ballou 1965, "TheAlfred Hitchcock Hour" 1963-1964, America, America 1963,"Twilight Zone" 1962-1963, "The Untouchables" 1960-1961, I Wantto Live! 1958, My Six Convicts 1952, The Mob 1951, and Native Land1942.RICHARD CONTE (24 March 1910, Jersey City, New Jersey—15April 1975, Los Angeles, California) acted in 91 films and shows,among them The Return of the Exorcist / Un urlo nelle tenebre 1975,Violent City / Roma violenta 1975, Shoot First, Die Later / Il poliziottoè marcio 1974, No Way Out / Tony Arzenta 1973, The Godfather1972, Lady in Cement 1968, Tony Rome 1967, Hotel 1967, Synanon1965, The Greatest Story Ever Told 1965, "77 Sunset Strip" 1963, "TheUntouchables" 1961-1962, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" 1961, Ocean'sEleven 1960, They Came to Cordura 1959, The Brothers Rico 1957, I'llCry Tomorrow 1955, New York Confidential 1955, Whirlpool 1949,Thieves' Highway 1949, House of Strangers 1949, Call Northside 7771948, 13 Rue Madeleine 1947, A Walk in the Sun 1945, A Bell forAdano 1945, The Purple Heart 1944, Guadalcanal Diary 1943, andHeaven with a Barbed Wire Fence 1939.DIANE KEATON (5 January 1946, Los Angeles, California) appearedin 56 films and shows, some of which are Morning Glory 2010,Smother 2008/II, The Family Stone 2005, Something's Gotta Give2003, Town & Country 2001, Marvin's Room 1996, The First WivesClub 1996, Manhattan Murder Mystery 1993, Father of the Bride1991, The Godfather: Part III 1990, The Lemon Sisters 1989, RadioDays 1987, Crimes of the Heart 1986, Mrs. Soffel 1984, The LittleDrummer Girl 1984, Shoot theMoon 1982, Reds 1981, The Wizardof Malta 1981, Manhattan 1979,Interiors 1978, Looking for Mr.Goodbar 1977, Annie Hall 1977,Harry and Walter Go to New York1976, I Will, I Will. for Now 1976,Love and Death 1975, TheGodfather: Part II 1974, Sleeper1973, Play It Again, Sam 1972, TheGodfather 1972, "Mannix" 1971,"The F.B.I." 1971, "Love, AmericanStyle" 1970, and Lovers and OtherStrangers 1970.ABE VIGODA (24 February 1921,New York City, New York) appeared in 93 films and shows, some ofwhich are Frankie the Squirrel 2007, Tea Cakes or Cannoli 2000,Farticus 1997, "Law & Order" 1996, "Murder, She Wrote" 1991, JoeVersus the Volcano 1990, Look Who's Talking 1989, Cannonball RunII 1984, "Fantasy Island" 1979, "The Love Boat" 1979, "The RockfordFiles" 1974-1978, The Cheap Detective 1978, "Fish" 1977-1978, TheGodfather: Part II 1974, "Hawaii Five-O" 1974, The Don Is Dead1973, The Godfather 1972, and "Suspense" 1949.TALIA SHIRE (25 April 1946, Lake Success, Long Island, New York)is Francis Ford Coppola’s sister. She has appeared in 63 films andshows, some of which are Pizza with Bullets 2010, Minkow 2010, TheReturn of Joe Rich 2010, The Deported 2009, Dim Sum Funeral 2008,Homo Erectus 2007, I Heart Huckabees 2004, The Landlady 1998, Bed& Breakfast 1991, The Godfather: Part III 1990, Rocky V 1990, NewYork Stories 1989, "Faerie Tale Theatre" 1987, Rocky IV 1985, RockyIII 1982, Prophecy 1979, Rocky II 1979, Rocky 1976, "Rich Man, PoorMan" 1976, "Doctors' Hospital" 1976, The Godfather: Part II 1974,The Godfather 1972, Maxie 1970, and The Wild Racers 1968.

Coppola—THE GODFATHER —5JOHN CAZALE (12 August 1935, Boston, Massachusetts—12 March1978, New York City) appeared in only six films and one TV series:The Deer Hunter 1978, Dog Day Afternoon 1975, The Godfather: PartII 1974, The Conversation 1974, The Godfather 1972, "N.Y.P.D."1968, and The American Way 1962.ALEX ROCCO (29 February 1936, Boston, Massachusetts) acted in149 films and shows, some of which are And They're Off 2011, NowHere 2010, "One Life to Live" 2004, "Walker, Texas Ranger" 2000,"The Simpsons" 1990-1997, Get Shorty 1995, Wired 1989, "Murder,She Wrote" 1985-1986, "The Love Boat" 1983-1984, The Stunt Man1980, "Starsky and Hutch" 1977, "The Rockford Files" 1977, "PoliceStory" 1975-1977, The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973, Slither 1973, TheGodfather 1972, Blood Mania 1970, The Boston Strangler 1968, TheSt. Valentine's Day Massacre 1967, and Motor Psycho 1965SOFIA COPPOLA (14 May 1971, New York City, New York), whoplays the infant Michael being baptized in the church scene, hasacted in 16 films, many of them directed by her father, Francis. Someof those films are: CQ 2001, Star Wars: Episode I - The PhantomMenace 1999, The Godfather: Part III 1990, Peggy Sue Got Married1986, Frankenweenie 1984, The Cotton Club 1984, Rumble Fish 1983,The Outsiders 1983, The Godfather: Part II 1974, and The Godfather1972. She is better known as a director. She has directed seven films,the most recent of which is Somewhere 2010. The others are MarieAntoinette 2006, VOID: Video Overview in Deceleration 2005, Lost inTranslation 2003, The Virgin Suicides 1999, Lick the Star 1998, andBed, Bath and Beyond 1996. Like her father, she is also ascreenwriter. She has done sevenfilms thus far: Somewhere 2010,Marie Antoinette 2006, Lost inTranslation 2003, "Platinum" 2003,The Virgin Suicides 1999, Lick theStar 1998, and New York Stories1989. She was nominated for threeOscars, all for Lost in Translation:screenplay, director and picture.She won the first.Francis Ford Coppola, fromWorld Film Directors V. II. Ed.John Wakeman. H.H. WilsonCo. NY 1988American director,scenarist and producer, born inDetroit, Michigan, second of the three children of Italian-Americanparents. His father, Carmine, is a flutist who in the course of hiscareer has played in several orchestras including Toscanini’s NBCSymphone Orchestra, which Coppola often conducted on tour. Hehas also worked as a musical arranger and for years struggledunsuccessfully to establish himself as a composer. Francis Coppolagrew up in Queens, New York. He remembers his childhood as“very warm, very tempestuous, full of controversy and a lot ofpassion and shouting. My father, who is an enormously talentedman, was the focus of all our lives. . . Our lives centered on what weall felt was the tragedy of his career.” (That tragedy has now beenresolved by Francis Coppola himself, who used his father’s music inThe Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, and the restored Napoleon.)Talent in the family was not confined to the father.Coppola’s mother, the former Italia Penino, at one time acted infilms. His older brother August is a writer and a professor ofliterature. His younger sister Talia Shire, who appears in bothGodfather films, has become well known for her performances inRocky and Old Boyfriends, and his nephew, Nicholas Cage, hasstarred in several recent films, Coppola’s Rumblefish and Peggy SueGot Married among them. As a small boy Francis Ford Coppola (hedropped his middle name in 1977) seemed the least promisingmember of this ambitious family, “funny-looking, not good atschool, nearsighted.” A polio attack when he was nine kept him inbed for a year—a miserable period in which he played with puppets,devoured television, and “got immersed in a fantasy world.” Coppolaattributes to this testing childhood the fact that he is a worrier whonevertheless courts trouble: “My wife tells me I put myself in thesetight spots to justify my anxiety.”Coppola made his first movies at the age of ten with hisfather’s 8mm camera and tape recorder. In high school his interestsbroadened to include writing, music, cinema, and the theatre. Aboutthe time he graduated from Great Neck High School, Long Island,he discovered the films of Eisenstein. Coppola became so ardent adisciple that, though he was “really dying to make a film,” he choseto seek a rounded theatrical education first “because Eisenstein hadstarted like that.” In 1956 he entered Hofstra College (nowUniversity) on a drama scholarship and almost immediately made astir with an anti-administration story in a student magazine. In thisand later student pieces his biographer Robert K. Johnson finds earlyevidence of Coppola’s predilection for “fast-paced, episodicstructure,”his interest in technology,his fascination with determinedwomen, and his naturalrebelliousness.”At Hofstra, eager to masterevery aspect of the theatre, Coppolaacted in student productions,worked on lighting and stage crews,wrote dialogue and lyrics. He wonthe Dan H. Lawrence Award for hisdirection for O’Neill’s The Rope andsealed his reputation by conceiving,producing, and directing Inertia, thefirst play ever written and stagedentirely by Hofstra students. He alsofounded a cinema workshop at thecollege, sold his car to buy a 16mmcamera, and worked on a movie thathe never finished.In 1960 Coppola went on to the UCLA film school. He wasa graduate student but younger than most of the others, and he waslonely and disappointed. No one at UCLA seemed to share hisinterest in the dramatic bases of the cinema except the veterandirector Dorothy Arzner, one of his teachers. Desperate to “foolaround with a camera and cut a film,” he shocked the other studentsby hiring himself out as a director of porno films, then appalled themby going to work for Roger Corman.Corman was in those days despised as a cheapskatemanufacturer of exploitation movies, though even then it was clearhe was prepared to take chances on talented young filmmakers.Coppola’s first job for him was to dub and reedit a rather

Coppola—THE GODFATHER —6sentimental Russian science-fiction film, turning it into a sex-andviolence monster movie called Battle Beyond the Sun (1962). Cormanpaid him 200 for six months’ work but gave him his first screencredit (as “Thomas Colchart”). Often working all night (and makingsure that Corman noticed), Coppola created a place for himself asdialogue director, sound man, and “all-purpose guy.”He got his first directorial assignment by exploitingCorman’s notorious stinginess, Filming in Ireland in 1962, hepointed out that it was a pity to bring a crew so far for a single movie,and sold Corman on an idea of his own on the strength of a singleghoulish scene. Shooting began soon afterwards on a script thatCoppola had written in three days, and he invited some of hisAmerican friends over to Ireland to join in. One of them was his setdirector Eleanor Neil, whom he married the same year. Dementia 13was made for forty thousand dollars. It is a grisly confection of nogreat distinction about inheritances and ax murders, but it seem toCoppola now “the only film I ever enjoyed working on.”Before 1962 was over Coppola, still enrolled at UCLA, wonthe Samuel Goldwyn award for a scenario and on that account washired as a scriptwriter by Seven Arts (later Warner Brothers-SevenArts). He made adaptations —later much rewritten by others—ofCarson McCullers’ Reflectionsin a Golden Eye and TennesseeWilliams’ This Property isCondemned, and incollaboration with Gore Vidalwrote Is Paris Burning?Frustrated by his inability toget a film made in his own way,he personally bought the rightsto David Benedictus’ novelYou’re a Big Boy Now, fusing itin his adaptation with a storyidea of his own. He made thepicture “on hope and credit,”with some backing from SevenArts plus the fifty thousanddollars he had earned as coauthor of Patton (a script that brought him an Oscar when it waseventually released in 1970.)Coppola mustered a notable cast for You’re a Big Boy Now.Peter Krastner plays Bernard, a naive young man working in theNew York Public Library. He is dominated by his parents (GeraldinePage and Rip Torn), jealously guarded by his landlady (Julie Harris),and pursued into impotence by a deviant actress (ElizabethHartman), who preserves as a trophy the artificial leg of her firstseducer. In the end. after fearful travails, Bernard becomes a man inthe arms of a sexy librarian (Karen Black). It was Coppola’s first“personal” film, and he only had twenty-nine shooting days. It wasCoppola’s first “personal” film, and he had only twenty-nineshooting days. He rehearsed his actors as if for a play and actuallystaged a public performance, videotaping it to check which movesand lines worked best. The uncertainty revealed by this “marketresearch” is characteristic of Coppola and is revealed in the movieitself, which rather uneasily combines several different modes ofhumor. There is grotesque social satire, parody (of certain plays andfilms), and manic visual humor in the manner of Richard Lester—fast motion, jump cuts, captions, and charming absurdities like a girlglimpsed reading in a fountain. Structurally weak as it is, You’re a BigBoy Now is perhaps the most likable of Coppola’s films—funny, fastpaced, and often perceptive and original in its characterization. Itwas much discussed and warmly praised by many critics as the debutof a new director of great talent and promise—the first suchproduced by a university film school—but it was overwhelmed at thebox office by a slicker movie on a similar theme, Mike Nichols’ TheGraduate.Offering You’re a Big Boy Now as his thesis, Coppola leftUCLA with a master’s degree in 1967. It was at about this time thathe made his much-quoted statement about patterning his life onHitler’s, later explaining that “the way to come to power is notalways to merely challenge the Establishment, but first make a placein it and then challenge, and double-cross, the Establishment.”Guided by this philosophy, Coppola agreed to direct a screen versionfor Warner Brothers-Seven Arts of the 1940s Broadway musicalFinian’s Rainbow, a dated and improbably whimsy aboutleprechauns and racial integration. He was out of his depth and“faking it” much of the time but—until the picture bombed onrelease—Warners were delighted and blew the film up from 35mmto 70mm (thus chopping off its principal asset, Fred Astaire’s feet).Finian’s Rainbow introduced Coppola to George Lucas, ayoung film school graduate whoserved as production assistanton Coppola

Godfather films, and Superman I and II. He was nominated for 14 Oscars and won 5: best director, best picture and best screenplay for Godfather II, best screenplay for The Godfather, best screenplay for Patton. GORDON WILLIS (28 May 1931, Queens, New York) was cinematographer on 37 films, some of which are: The Devil's Own 1997,