Carmine Coppola Carmine Coppola Carmine Valentino Coppola (June 11, 1910 – April 26, 1991) was an American composer, flautist, editor, musical director, and songwriter who contributed original music to "The Godfather", "The Godfather Part II", "Apocalypse Now", "The Outsiders", and "The Godfather Part III", all directed by his son Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola was born in New York City, the son of Marie (née Zasa) and Agostino Coppola. His brother is opera conductor and composer Anton Coppola. He was the father of August Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, and Talia Shire, and grandfather of Nicolas Cage, Sofia Coppola, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and
Sofia Coppola films. The best known of these is her appearance in "The Godfather" as the infant Michael Francis Rizzi, in the baptism scene. Coppola returned to her father's trilogy in both the second and third "Godfather" films, playing an immigrant child in "The Godfather Part II" and Michael Corleone's daughter in "The Godfather Part III", after the originally cast actress, Winona Ryder, discontinued her involvement with the film. Coppola responded to a question about her role in "The Godfather Part III" in a 2013 interview:Let's see. Did I not wanna do it? Um. I was game. I was trying different things.