Biography
Friends and Family
Talia Shire
[Sister]
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Carmine Coppola
[Father]
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Italia Coppola
[Mother]
Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
Art depends on luck and talent.
The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.
We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn`t speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.
When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.
When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That`s what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was You`re a Big Boy Now.
You ought to love what you`re doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.
You`re in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That`s one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.
Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.
My film is not a movie; it`s not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.
Trivia
As a child his bedroom was covered with pictures of his favourite film star, Jane Powell. When he discovered she`d married Geary Anthony Steffen, Jr. he tore them all down. His wife arranged for him to meet Jane Powell as a 40th birthday present.
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Briefly attended the New York Military Academy where Troy Donahue was his classmate. They later worked together on The Godfather: Part II (1974).
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Co-owns the Rubicon restaurant in San Francisco with Robert DeNiro and fellow Bay area resident Robin Williams
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Directed 12 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Geraldine Page, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Michael V. Gazzo, Lee Strasberg, Talia Shire, Kathleen Turner, Andy Garcia and Martin Landau. Brando and De Niro won their Oscar for their performances as Vito Corleone.
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Favorite movies from his own personal filmography: The Rain People (1969), The Conversation (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), Rumble Fish (1983) and Youth Without Youth (2007).
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George Lucas said that he based the Han Solo character from the Star Wars trilogy on Coppola.
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His middle name was given to him to honor Henry Ford. Francis was born at the "Henry Ford" Hospital in Detroit; Francis`s father participated in a music show that Henry Ford really liked and they, in fact, met. So the middle name Ford was to honor Henry Ford himself. (Source: Francis F. Coppola, "Inside the Actor`s Studio").
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In 1971 and 1973, George C. Scott and Marlon Brando refused their respective Best Actor awards for Patton (1970) and The Godfather (1972) - both written by Coppola.
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In 1986 his 22-year-old son, Gian-Carlo, died in a boating accident.
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Uncle of Nicolas Cage, Christopher Coppola Marc Coppola, Robert Schwartzman, Jason Schwartzman, `John Schwartzman (I)`, and Stephanie Schwartzman.
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As of May 2002, the number of Coppola-family members appearing in or contributing to filmmaking stands at thirteen, spread over three generations.
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Brother of Talia Shire.
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Caught polio when he was a child. During his quarantine, he practiced puppetry.
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Father of Sofia, Roman and Gian Carlo Coppola.
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Has released his own line of specialty foods.
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Like Martin Scorsese, Coppola was a sickly youth, a case of polio which allowed him time to indulge in puppet theater and home movies.
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Received an M.F.A. in Film Production from the University of California in Los Angeles (1967.
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Since 1978, owner and operator of a Rutherford, California vineyard making Rubicon wine.
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Some sources say he is the uncle of Alan Coppola, but Alan`s name does not appear on any family tree authorized by the Coppola family.
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Son of composer Carmine Coppola and Italia Coppola.
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