People don’t understand that polio is a fever that just hits you for one night,” Coppola told the publication. “You only are ...

Francis Ford Coppola, the Oscar-winning director behind The Godfather trilogy, has shared vivid recollections of his battle with polio, a disease that nearly left him permanently paralyzed as a child.

Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola recalls the "horror" of surviving childhood polio amid questions about the future of ...

Coppola was saved by his father’s unwillingness to accept the diagnosis. Carmine Coppola was a composer who won Oscar scoring ...

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

Francis Ford Coppola, the Oscar-winning Bay Area filmmaker and polio survivor, is sounding the alarm over the growing wave of vaccine skepticism in the United States, particularly regarding polio. In ...

Francis Ford Coppola was warned that he might never walk again after he contracted polio as a child. The 85-year-old director ...

The "Megalopolis" filmmaker responds to vaccine skeptics among the president-elect's cabinet picks, including Robert F.

Francis Ford Coppola, the Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt and Arturo Sandoval are among the recipients of the 47th annual Kennedy ...

Francis Ford Coppola was warned he'd never walk again after contracting polio. The 85-year-old director was stricken by the ...

EXCLUSIVE: The 85-year old five-time Oscar winning director Francis Ford Coppola is spending the days before ... in 2022 to reconsider approval of a widely used polio vaccine. I recalled Coppola’s ...