Francis Ford Coppola has three children with his late wife Eleanor Neil, a documentary filmmaker who died in 2024 at age 87.

Filmmaking is simply the family business for Francis Ford Coppola, daughter Sofia Coppola, nephews Nicolas Cage, Jason Schwartzman and more. You get the picture, so find out how they're all connected.

Coppola went on to take his own film, “Rumble Fish,” starring a young Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke and adapted from the novel by S.E. Hinton.