Dean TavoularisFilmography

Born:: Lowell, MA
Occupation:: Art Director, Production Designer
Biography:: Production designer Dean Tavoularis is best known for his work on such Francis Ford Coppola features as The Godfather (1972) and Apocalypse Now (1979). His brother, Alex, also works as an art director. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide...Read More

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CQ

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Jeremy Davies, Élodie Bouchez, Gérard Depardieu, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: The feature debut of Roman Coppola (son of Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola) centers around an international film crew making a low-budget, Barbarella-like feature in Paris in 1969. The film is called Dragonfly and is being directed by Andrzej (Gérard Depardieu), who wishes to make a Read More

5/24/02
Apocalypse Now Redux

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall

Synopsis: Francis Coppola had more than his share of production difficulties while shooting his epic-scale Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now, including disastrous weather conditions, problems with his leading men (Harvey Keitel was fired after less than two weeks on the project and was replaced by Martin Read More

8/3/01
Angel Eyes

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Jennifer Lopez, James Caviezel, Sonia Braga, Terrence Howard, Jeremy Sisto

Synopsis: Jennifer Lopez stars in this gritty, emotional drama as police officer Sharon Pogue, who covers up a painful past with an anger that fuels her job performance in one of Chicago's toughest precincts. Although her partner Robby (Terrence Howard) is concerned about Sharon, she won't confide even in Read More

5/18/01
The Ninth Gate

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford

Synopsis: An authority on rare books is drawn into a confrontation with the forces of darkness in this thriller directed by Roman Polanski. Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) is a rare book broker who makes his living tracking down valuable items for rich bibliophiles. Corso is hired by Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) Read More

8/25/99
Bulworth

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: Warren Beatty directed, co-produced (with Pieter Jan Brugge), co-scripted (with Jeremy Pikser), and stars in this political satire, a comedy-drama about a U.S. senator who decides to start speaking the truth. Despondent California Sen. Jay Bulworth (Beatty), up for re-election, is disillusioned by Read More

1/1/98
The Parent Trap

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson, Elaine Hendrix, Lisa Ann Walter

Synopsis: The husband-and-wife team of Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer, who scored with their 1991 remake of the 1950 Father of the Bride, returned for this updating of the 1961 comedy about twins who hope to bring their divorced parents back together. Sheyer and Meyers stayed close to the original Read More

1998
Jack

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez, Brian Kerwin, Fran Drescher

Synopsis: In this film by director Francis Ford Coppola, Robin Williams stars as Jack, a boy who is growing normally, but at many times the normal rate. In a bizarre flashback, we see that he was born when his mother was only ten weeks pregnant. Kept out of school for years, the neighborhood children Read More

1996
I Love Trouble

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Julia Roberts, Nick Nolte, Saul Rubinek, James Rebhorn, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: In the style of the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, I Love Trouble depicts the developing romance of two rival reporters who reluctantly fall for each other while competing for a major scoop. Old hand Peter Brackett (Nick Nolte) and aspiring newcomer Sabrina Peterson (Julia Roberts) Read More

1994
Rising Sun

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson

Synopsis: When Michael Crichton wrote his best-selling thriller Rising Sun, he wrote the character of hero John Connor with Sean Connery in mind. For Philip Kaufman's film version of the novel, Sean Connery, needless to say, fits seamlessly into the role of a legendary police detective who is an expert in Read More

1993
Final Analysis

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Eric Roberts, Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis: In Final Analysis, Richard Gere stars as Isaac Barr, a San Francisco psychiatrist whose alluring patient Diana Baylor (Uma Thurman) is being treated for traumatic memories. In order to find out more about her trauma, Diana suggests that Isaac speak to her sister and question her about what went on Read More

2/7/92
The Godfather Part III

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Sofia Coppola, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: After a break of more than 15 years, director Francis Ford Coppola and writer Mario Puzo returned to the well for this third and final story of the fictional Corleone crime family. Two decades have passed, and crime kingpin Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), now divorced from his wife Kay (Diane Read More

12/25/90
New York Stories

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Patrick O'Neal, Heather McComb, Talia Shire, Jesse Borrego, Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Mae Questel, Julie Kavner, Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: The omnibus film New York Stories is the product of three powerhouse filmmakers. The film is divided into three stories, each exploring a different aspect of life in the Big Apple. Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorcese, is a Dostoevsky-like tale of the rarefied Art World, with Nick Nolte as a Read More

3/1/89
Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: History tells us that would-be automobile mogul Preston Tucker was a silver-tongued con man, who misappropriated his investors' money and played fast and loose with ethics and legalities in the pursuit of his dream. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola isn't buying this: to hear Coppola tell it, Tucker Read More

8/12/88
A Man in Love

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Peter Coyote, Greta Scacchi, Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Riegert, Claudia Cardinale, John Berry

Synopsis: A married American actor (Peter Coyote) falls in love with his on-screen flame (Greta Scacchi) while filming an Italian biography of author Cesare Pavese. France's 1987 entry to the Cannes Film Festival, this was the first English-language film for director Diane Kurys. ~ John Bush, All Movie Read More

7/31/87
Gardens of Stone

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D.B. Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stuart Masterson, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Set in Washington D.C. during the Vietnam War era, Gardens of Stone concentrates on the trials and tribulations of the Arlington National Cemetery home guard. James Caan plays career soldier Sgt. Clell Hazard, who has come to the sad conclusion that Vietnam is unwinnable and that America should Read More

5/8/87
Peggy Sue Got Married

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Maureen O'Sullivan, Helen Hunt, Jim Carrey, John Carradine

Synopsis: During her 25th high school class reunion, middle-aged Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) tries to forget her marital problems with husband Charlie (Nicolas Cage) by renewing old friendships. Wondering if she made the right decisions in her life, Peggy Sue gets a chance to try again when, zapped into a Read More

10/8/86
The Outsiders

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe

Synopsis: Teen rivalry in a small Southern town sets the stage for this dramatic interpretation of the novel by S.E. Hinton. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, The Outsiders tells the story of the ongoing conflict between the Greasers and the Socs in rural Oklahoma. C. Thomas Howell stars as Ponyboy, the Read More

1983
Rumble Fish

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Herb Rice, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper, Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: One of two S.E. Hinton novels Francis Ford Coppola directed in 1983, Rumble Fish is a stylized black-and-white film about the death of gang culture in a rough-and-tumble town full of stunted youths. The central character is the strutting Rusty James (Matt Dillon), a foul-mouthed lunkhead clad in Read More

1983
Hammett

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear, Elisha Cook, Jr.

Synopsis: Director Wim Wenders made his American film bow with the ultra-stylish Hammett. Based on the speculative novel by Joe Gores, the story concerns real-life detective novelist Dashiell Hammett (Frederic Forest), who early in his career is involved in a complex mystery that will profoundly influence Read More

1982
The Escape Artist

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Griffin O'Neal, Raul Julia, Teri Garr, Joan Hackett, Gabriel Dell

Synopsis: The Escape Artist represents the laudable directorial debut of cinematographer Caleb Deschanel. Griffin O'Neal, the real-life son of Ryan O'Neal, plays Danny Masters, the offspring of a famed magician. Determined to match his dad's accomplishment, Danny runs into nothing but trouble. His biggest Read More

1982
One From the Heart

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Nastassja Kinski, Raul Julia

Synopsis: After completing Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola initially planned for his next picture to be an intimate romantic musical shot on a low budget in Las Vegas. Three years later, One from the Heart had mushroomed into a big-budget spectacular, shot on strikingly stylized sets at his newly Read More

1982
Apocalypse Now

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness to depict the war as a descent into primal madness. Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen), already on the edge, is assigned to find and deal with AWOL Col. Read More

8/15/79
The Brink's Job

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Warren Oates, Gena Rowlands

Synopsis: In 1950, a Brink's armored truck in Boston was robbed by a highly organized gang decked out in Halloween masks. The Brink's Job is an occasionally humorous account of that "perfect crime." Peter Falk stars as the mastermind behind the robbery, who assembles a bunch of two-bit hoods who in any Read More

1978
Farewell, My Lovely

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Jack O'Halloran

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1942 as The Falcon Takes Over and in 1944 as Murder, My Sweet, Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely was given its third cinematic go-round under its original title in 1975. Spouting the Chandlerish prose as if it were second nature, Robert Mitchum stars as 1940s private eye Read More

1975
The Godfather Part II

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Lee Strasberg

Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito Corleone's rise with his son Michael's spiritual fall, deepening The Godfather's depiction of the dark side of the American dream. In the early 1900s, the child Vito flees Read More

12/11/74
The Conversation

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams

Synopsis: Made between The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), and in part an homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's art-movie classic Blow-Up (1966), The Conversation was a return to small-scale art films for Francis Ford Coppola. Sound surveillance expert Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired to Read More

1974
The Godfather

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, John Cazale, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

Synopsis: Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael Read More

3/15/72
Little Big Man

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan, Chief Dan George

Synopsis: Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation of Thomas Berger's satirical novel was a comic yet stinging allegory about the bloody results of American imperialism. As a misguided 20th-century historian listens Read More

1970
Zabriskie Point

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor

Synopsis: Zabriskie Point, director Michelangelo Antonioni's only American film, is an unusual, visually stunning examination of youthful rebellion against the Establishment. The film, initially presented in quasi-documentary style, presents a group of college activists discussing key issues of their Read More

1970
Candy

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, John Huston

Synopsis: In this big-budget adaptation of Terry Southern's satiric sex farce (the sort of project that could get an immediate green light in the late 1960's and at practically no other time before or since), Ewa Aulin is Candy, a sweet young woman who doesn't seem entirely aware of the powerful sexual Read More

1968
Petulia

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain, Arthur Hill, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: Petulia is Richard Lester's ode to the Swinging Sixties: a time of psychedelic instability when neither those who were square, nor those who were hip, really had it right. George C. Scott is Archie Bollen, a divorced San Francisco doctor in the midst of "discovering himself." Julie Christie is Read More

1968
Bonnie and Clyde

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder

Synopsis: Producer/star Warren Beatty had to convince Warner Bros. to finance this film, which went on to become the studio's second-highest grosser. It also caused major controversy by redefining violence in cinema and casting its criminal protagonists as sympathetic anti-heroes. Based loosely on the true Read More

1967
Inside Daisy Clover

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Roddy McDowall, Ruth Gordon

Synopsis: Daisy Clover (Natalie Wood) goes from teenage girl to movie star practically overnight when her demented mother enters her voice in a talent-search contest. From a broken-down carnival on the Santa Monica Pier, in no time at all she is attending glamorous Hollywood parties. But Daisy soon learns Read More

1965