Among the legendary director’s greatest films are all three chapters of The Godfather saga, Patton and Apocalypse Now. As for the 1984 film The Cotton Club, starring Richard Gere, Gregory Hines and Diane Lane, the New York Times said it “is not a complete disaster, but it’s not a whole lot of fun.”

Based on the Harlem nightclub in the 1920s, the movie’s budget more than doubled to nearly $60 million and Coppola fought producers Lorenzo Doumani and Robert Evans in court for control, according to a 1999 article in the New York Daily News.

Artist Bill Robles noted that features from the distinctive to the mundane–a hat, for example–provide the visual hook needed for a sketch.

In Coppola’s case, it’s easy to pick out.

“When I see a witness, defendant or a person like Coppola with a wonderful beard, a huge presence, a high-spirited individual,” he said, “I think, ‘Wow! I get paid to do this!’”