Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola was born April 7, 1939; an five-time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Francis is also a vintner, magazine publisher, and hotelier. This director earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School. Coppola is most renowned for directing the highly regarded Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, and the Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now.

Francis Ford Coppola was son of Carmine Coppola, at the time first flautist for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and his wife Italia in Detroit, Michigan on April 7, 1939, the 2nd of three children (his sister is actress Talia Shire). Two years later Carmine became first flautist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra and the family moved back to suburban Long Island, New York where Francis spent the remainder of his childhood. This director had polio as a boy, leaving him bedridden for large periods of Coppola's childhood, and allowing him to indulge his imagination with homemade puppet theater productions. Using his father's 8mm movie camera, Coppola began making movies when he was 10. He studied theatre at Hofstra University prior to earning an M.F.A. in film directing from UCLA Film School where Coppola made numerous short films. While in UCLA's Film Department Francis met Jim Morrison, whose music was used later in Apocalypse Now. See also films by Francis Ford Coppola.

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