August Floyd Coppola (February 16, 1934 – October 27, 2009) was an American academic, author, film executive and advocate for the arts. He is also known as the father of actor Nicolas Cage.
August Coppola was the son of Carmine (a flutist and composer) and Italia Coppola, a lyricist. His siblings are film director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire; his uncle is composer Anton Coppola. August Coppola married dancer Joy Vogelsang in 1960; they had three sons: Marc, Christopher, and Nicolas. Among his notable nieces and nephews are director Sofia Coppola and actor Jason Schwartzman.
Coppola and Vogelsang divorced in 1976. He married Marie Thenevin on April 16, 1981. That marriage ended in 1986. He married twice again. His last marriage was to Martine Chevallier, an actress with the Comédie-Française in Paris.
Coppola received his undergraduate degree at UCLA and his graduate degree at Hofstra University, where his thesis Ernest Hemingway: The Problem of In Our Time was published in 1956. Coppola earned his doctorate at Occidental College in 1960.