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Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez ( born August 3 , 1940 ), better known by his stage name Martin Sheen , is an American ___MASK68___ who first became known for his roles in the films " The Subject Was Roses " ( 1968 ) and " Badlands " ( 1973 ), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role in " Apocalypse Now " ( 1979 ). Michael David Herr ( April 13 , 1940  June 23 , 2016 ) was an American ___MASK69___ and ___MASK64___ , known as the author of " Dispatches " ( 1977 ), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for " Esquire magazine " ( 1967  1969 ) during the Vietnam War . The book was called the best " to have been written about the Vietnam War " by " The New York Times Book Review "; novelist John le Carré called it " the best book I have ever read on men and war in our time ." Herr later was credited with pioneering the literary genre of the nonfiction novel , along with authors such as Truman Capote , Norman Mailer , and Tom Wolfe . Robert Selden Duvall ( born January 5 , 1931 ) is an American ___MASK68___ and filmmaker . He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards ( winning for his performance in " Tender Mercies "), seven Golden Globes ( winning four ), and has multiple nominations and one win each of the BAFTA , Screen Actors Guild Award , and Emmy Award . He received the National Medal of Arts in 2005 . Duvall has starred in some of the most acclaimed and popular films and television series of all time , including " To Kill a Mockingbird " ( 1962 ), " The Twilight Zone " ( 1963 ), " The Outer Limits " ( 1964 ), " Bullitt " ( 1968 ), " True Grit " ( 1969 ), " MASH " ( 1970 ), " THX 1138 " ( 1971 ), " Joe Kidd " ( 1972 ), " The Godfather " ( 1972 ), " The Godfather Part II " ( 1974 ), " The Conversation " ( 1974 ), " Network " ( 1976 ), " Apocalypse Now " ( 1979 ), " Lonesome Dove " ( 1989 ), " The Handmaid ' s Tale " ( 1990 ), " Rambling Rose " ( 1991 ), and " Falling Down " ( 1993 ). Heart of Darkness ( 1899 ) is a novella by Polish - British ___MASK51___ Joseph Conrad , about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State , in the heart of Africa , by the story ' s ___MASK57___ Marlow . Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames , London , England . This setting provides the frame for Marlow ' s story of his obsession with the ivory ___MASK42___ Kurtz , which enables Conrad to create a parallel between London and Africa as places of darkness . Jerry Ziesmer ( born May 31 , 1939 ) is a career assistant ___MASK91___ for major Hollywood films , best recognized for the line `` terminate with extreme prejudice '' in his acting role as ' Jerry ' , a CIA operative in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now . Samuel John Bottoms ( October 17 , 1955  December 16 , 2008 ) was an American ___MASK68___ and ___MASK30___ . The role of an assistant ___MASK91___ on a film includes tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule , arranging logistics , preparing daily call sheets , checking cast and crew , and maintaining order on the set . They also have to take care of the health and safety of the crew . The role of an assistant to the ___MASK91___ is often confused with assistant ___MASK91___ but the responsibilities are entirely different . The assistant to the ___MASK91___ manages all of the ___MASK91___ ' s in development , pre - production , while on set , through post - production and is often involved in both personal management as well as creative aspects of the production process . Historically , assistant to ___MASK91___ was a stepping stone to directing work ; Alfred Hitchcock was an AD , as was James McTeigue . This transition into film directing is no longer common in feature films . It is more common now for an assistant to the ___MASK91___ to transition to a production management or ___MASK30___ role than to directing . John Frederick Milius ( born April 11 , 1944 ) is an American ___MASK25___ , ___MASK91___ , and ___MASK30___ of motion pictures . He was one of the writers for the first two " Dirty Harry " films , received an Academy Award nomination as ___MASK25___ of " Apocalypse Now ," and wrote and directed " The Wind and the Lion ", " Conan the Barbarian " and " Red Dawn ." The Vietnam War , also known as the Second Indochina War , and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War , was a war that occurred in Vietnam , Laos , and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 . It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam . The North Vietnamese ___MASK82___ was supported by the ___MASK100___ , China and other communist allies and the South Vietnamese ___MASK82___ was supported by the United States , South Korea , Australia , Thailand and other anti - communist allies and the war is therefore considered a Cold War - era proxy war . In ___MASK47___ and other covert operations , terminate with extreme prejudice is a euphemism for aggressive execution ( playing on the expression " termination with prejudice " of an employment contract ). Dennis Lee Hopper ( May 17 , 1936  May 29 , 2010 ) was an American ___MASK68___ , filmmaker , photographer and artist . He attended the Actors Studio , made his first television appearance in 1954 , and soon after appeared alongside James ___MASK63___ in " Rebel Without a Cause " ( 1955 ) and " Giant " ( 1956 ). In the next ten years he made a name in television , and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in several films . Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s . Marlon Brando , Jr . ( April 3 , 1924  July 1 , 2004 ) was an American ___MASK68___ , ___MASK35___ and activist . He is credited with bringing realism to film acting , and is considered one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time . He helped to popularize the Stanislavski system of acting , studying with Stella Adler in the 1940s . Brando is most famous for his Academy Award - winning performances as Terry Malloy in " On the Waterfront " ( 1954 ) and Vito Corleone in " The Godfather " ( 1972 ), as well as performances in " A Streetcar Named Desire " ( 1951 ), " Viva Zapata !" ( 1952 ), " Julius Caesar " ( 1953 ), " The Wild One " ( 1953 ), " Reflections in a Golden Eye " ( 1967 ), " Last Tango in Paris " ( 1972 ), and " Apocalypse Now " ( 1979 ). Brando was also an activist for many causes , notably the African - American Civil Rights Movement and various Native American movements . Werner Herzog ( born 5 September 1942 ) is a German ___MASK25___ , ___MASK35___ , author , actor , and opera director . Aguirre , the Wrath of God , known in the UK as Aguirre , Wrath of God , is a 1972 West German epic film written and directed by Werner Herzog . Klaus Kinski stars in the title role . The soundtrack was composed and performed by West German progressive / Krautrock ___MASK95___ Popol Vuh . The story follows the travels of Spanish ___MASK21___ Lope de Aguirre , who leads a group of conquistadores down the Orinoco and Amazon River in South America in search of the legendary city of gold , El Dorado . Using a minimalist story and dialogue , the film creates a vision of madness and folly , counterpointed by the lush but unforgiving Amazonian jungle . Although based loosely on what is known of the historical figure of Aguirre , the film ' s storyline is , as Herzog acknowledged years after the film ' s release , a work of imagination . Some of the people and situations may have been inspired by Gaspar de Carvajal ' s account of an earlier Amazonian expedition , although Carvajal was not on the historical voyage represented in the film . Other accounts state that the expedition went into the jungles but never returned to civilization . ___MASK18___ Walter E . Kurtz , portrayed by Marlon Brando , is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Francis Ford Coppola ' s film " Apocalypse Now " ( 1979 ). ___MASK18___ Kurtz is based on the character of a nineteenth - century ivory ___MASK42___ , also called Kurtz , from the novella " Heart of Darkness " ( 1899 ) by Joseph Conrad . Joseph Conrad ( born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski ; 3 December 1857  3 August 1924 ) was a Polish - British ___MASK69___ regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language . He joined the British merchant marine in 1878 , and was granted British nationality in 1886 . Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties , he was a ___MASK83___ prose stylist who brought a non - English sensibility into English literature . He wrote stories and novels , many with a nautical setting , that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive , inscrutable universe . Conrad is considered an early modernist , though his works still contain elements of 19th - century realism . His narrative style and anti - heroic characters have influenced many authors , including F . Scott Fitzgerald , William Faulkner , Ernest Hemingway , André Malraux , George Orwell , Graham Greene , Gabriel García Márquez , John le Carré , V . S . Naipaul , Philip Roth , J . M . Coetzee , and Salman Rushdie . Many films have been adapted from , or inspired by , Conrad ' s works . Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock ( 13 August 1899  29 April 1980 ) was an English ___MASK35___ and producer , at times referred to as " The Master of Suspense ". He pioneered many elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres . He had a successful career in British cinema with both silent films and early talkies and became renowned as England ' s best director . Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1939 , and became a US citizen in 1955 . Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed , produced and co - written by Francis Ford Coppola and co - written by John Milius with narration by Michael Herr . It stars Marlon Brando , Robert Duvall , Martin Sheen , Frederic Forrest , Albert Hall , Sam Bottoms , Larry Fishburne , and Dennis Hopper . The screenplay written by Milius updates the setting of Joseph Conrad ' s novella " Heart of Darkness " to that of the Vietnam War . It draws from Herr ' s " Dispatches ", and Werner Herzog ' s " Aguirre , the Wrath of God " ( 1972 ). The film revolves around ___MASK16___ Benjamin L . Willard ( Sheen ) on a secret mission to assassinate ___MASK18___ Kurtz , a renegade who ' s presumed insane . Frederic Fenimore Forrest , Jr . ( born December 23 , 1936 ) is a retired American ___MASK68___ . He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting ___MASK68___ for his portrayal of Huston Dyer in the 1979 musical drama " The Rose ". He also portrayed Chef in the epic war film " Apocalypse Now " released the same year . James McTeigue ( born 29 December 1967 ) is an Australian ___MASK35___ . He has been an assistant director on many films , including " Dark City " ( 1998 ), the " Matrix trilogy " ( 1999  2003 ) and "" ( 2002 ), and made his directorial debut with the 2006 film " V for Vendetta " to critical acclaim . Since " Vendetta " he has collaborated with the Wachowskis an additional three times as director on " The Invasion " ( albeit uncredited ), " Ninja Assassin " and " Sense8 ". Francis Ford Coppola ( born April 7 , 1939 ) is a semi - retired American ___MASK35___ , producer , and screenwriter . He is considered to have been a central figure of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking . The daily call sheet is a filmmaking term for the schedule crafted by the assistant ___MASK91___ , using the ___MASK91___ ' s shot list . It is issued to the cast and crew of a film production to inform them of where and when they should report for a particular day of filming .