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Coppola

American  
[kop-uh-luh] / ˈkɒp ə lə /

noun

  1. Francis Ford, born 1939, U.S. film director and screenwriter.


Coppola British  
/ ˈkɒpələ /

noun

  1. Francis Ford. born 1939, US film director. His films include The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), Tucker (1988), and The Rainmaker (1997)

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Paul Fischer’s lively history of the new wave of California directors, “The Last Kings of Hollywood,” concentrates on Lucas, Coppola and Steven Spielberg.

From Los Angeles Times

That is part of the impetus behind his new book, “The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema.”

From Los Angeles Times

The Rain People, released in 1969, marked his first collaboration with director Francis Ford Coppola, with whom he would go on to work in the first two Godfather films.

From BBC

He only had a few minutes of screen time but his famous line in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 classic, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning", became legendary.

From BBC

Film-studio executives were sour on the early films of Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

From The Wall Street Journal