Eleanor Coppola died on Friday at her home in Northern California's Napa Valley, according to a statement from her family shared with NPR via her press agent. She was 87 years old. The cause of her death has not yet been shared publicly.
The documentarian was best known for chronicling the moviemaking process of family members Francis Ford Coppola, to whom she was married for more than 60 years and her daughter Sofia Coppola.
Eleanor Coppola was the mother of three kids when Francis Ford Coppola asked her to come to the Philippines to record the making of his 1979 magnum opus on the Vietnam War, Apocalypse Now, starring Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen.
