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.

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

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 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 is issuing a dire warning on polio amid concerns about the future of vaccines. The Kennedy Center honoree recalled his experience with the disease after recent reports ...

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 ...