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August Coppola, Nicolas Cage’s father, dead at 75

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August Coppola, the father of actor Nicolas Cage and brother of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, and a former literature professor, died Oct. 27 of a heart attack, Cage’s publicist Annett Wolf said today. He was 75.

A graduate of UCLA who had a doctorate from Occidental College, Coppola taught literature and had been the dean of creative arts at San Francisco State.

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He moved to Savannah, Ga., in the 1990s because he said he needed to find a quiet place to write.

Update: The full obituary is now here.

-- Claire Noland

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