{"id":249190,"date":"2026-04-28T15:38:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=249190"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:42:23","slug":"au-revoir-dean-tavoularis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/au-revoir-dean-tavoularis\/","title":{"rendered":"Au revoir Dean Tavoularis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>by Christos Zabounis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Dean Tavoularis met Aurore Cl\u00e9ment, he was working as a production designer on the film Apocalypse Now, and she was an actress with a small role that was eventually cut during editing. The whirlwind romance they experienced during the filming of Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s movie led to marriage and the couple\u2019s move to Paris. It was there that our Oscar-winning compatriot passed away last week. We, of course, honored him as well, with the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Although he was born in Connecticut in 1932 to Greek parents, Tavoularis maintained and cultivated strong ties with the land of his ancestors. In interviews, he often emphasized how his Greek identity influenced his aesthetic, especially his love of light. Until the end of his life, he visited Greece regularly, with his most recent trip in March of this year, when he was named Honorary Doctor at the University of West Attica, in the Department of Interior Architecture. Most tributes in both the international and Greek press focused on his professional collaboration with Coppola, with a highlight being The Godfather trilogy (note: he won the Oscar for Art Direction for The Godfather Part II). Together, they made 13 films, and the nature of their relationship is reflected in the following incident: When Coppola saw the made-up prop of a severed horse\u2019s head that was supposed to be placed in the bed of the arrogant Hollywood producer Jack Woltz, he was not satisfied with the result. Tavoularis went to a dog food factory, found a real horse\u2019s head, filled it with ice, and placed it in the bed during the take, later replacing it with the fake one. The screams of terror from actor John Marley, who played the role, could still be heard when he felt the horse\u2019s blood on his sheets.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Photo by Mary Ellen Mark<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christos Zabounis When Dean Tavoularis met Aurore Cl\u00e9ment, he was working as a production designer on the film Apocalypse Now, and she was an actress with a small role that was eventually cut during editing. The whirlwind romance they experienced during the filming of Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s movie led to marriage and the couple\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":249186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18496],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249195,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249190\/revisions\/249195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}