Nicolas Cage’s dad, August Coppola, dead at 75
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August Coppola -- father of Nicolas Cage and brother of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire-- died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a heart attack, Cage’s publicist reports.
Among other things, Nicolas’ dad was a professor of literature at Cal State Long Beach and later a cinema professor and dean of the School of Creative Arts at San Francisco State.
Read more about the life of August Coppola here.
-- Christie D’Zurilla
