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Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has vivid memories of his experience surviving polio. In interview with Deadline regarding his new film “Megalopolis,” Coppola, who was diagnosed with polio as a child around the age of 9, recalled the quick onset of the disease.

Francis Ford Coppola is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and his staggering net worth proves it. Some of the blockbuster films Coppola has directed throughout the course of his career include The Godfather franchise,

Francis Ford Coppola was warned that he might never walk again after he contracted polio as a child. The 85-year-old director recalled feeling ‘frightened’ for the other kids on the hospital ward, only to realise his own situation was worse than he initially thought.

Coppola was saved by his father’s unwillingness to accept the diagnosis. Carmine Coppola was a composer who won Oscar scoring several of his son’s films, but perhaps his greatest achievement in his son’s work was going against the grain to ensure Francis Coppola would get a proper shot at life.

Francis Ford Coppola is urging new Trump administration public health picks be cautious about vaccine skepticism.

Oscar-winning director-producer-screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola is considered one of the greatest living directors. Since his passion project, Megalopolis, arrived in theaters earlier this fall, the time is ripe to explore the movies that made Coppola a legend.