Peter Bogdanovich died on Thursday. He was 82. 

His daughter, Antonia said that the director of classics like ‘The Last Picture Show’ and ‘Paper Moon’ died of natural causes. 

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“Oh dear, a shock. I am devastated. He was a wonderful and great artist,” said Francis Ford Coppola in an email. “I’ll never forgot attending a premiere for ‘The Last Picture Show.’ I remember at its end, the audience leaped up all around me bursting into applause lasting easily 15 minutes. I’ll never forget although I felt I had never myself experienced a reaction like that, that Peter and his film deserved it. May he sleep in bliss for eternity, enjoying the thrill of our applause forever.”

Bogdanovich was considered a part of a generation of young “New Hollywood” directors. He was born in Kingston, New York and started out as a film journalist and critic, working as a film programmer at the Museum of Modern Art. 

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“I’ve gotten some very important one-sentence clues like when Howard Hawks turned to me and said ‘Always cut on the movement and no one will notice the cut,’” he said in an interview with The Associated Press. “It was a very simple sentence but it profoundly effected everything I’ve done.”

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But his Hollywood education started earlier than that: His father took him at age 5 to see Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton movies at the Museum of Modern Art. He’d later make his own Keaton documentary, “The Great Buster,” which was released in 2018.

Bogdanovich’s net worth, as per celebritynetworth.com, is $10 million. 

With inputs from the Associated Press