Francis Ford Coppola is a director who had many trips in filmmaking, but continued to work hard. His success was earned through hard work and perseverance. Coppola's successes made him a very rich and popular director, while his failures left him bankrupt and mortgaging everything he owned. Through it all, Coppola put his directing before everything, which helped him to produce what some people see to be the best films ever made. Francis Coppola is a controversial and skilled director who has experienced a roller coaster of ups and downs throughout his career as a director.

Francis was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up in Queens, New York. He turned out 8mm features as a young boy that he edited from home movies. Coppola contracted Polio at nine years of age, which left him paralyzed for almost a year. He then became interested in comics, puppetry, and...