August Coppola August Coppola August Floyd Coppola (February 16, 1934 – October 27, 2009) was an American academic, author, film executive and advocate for the arts. He was the father of actor Nicolas Cage. August Coppola was the son of composer and flutist Carmine Coppola (1910–1991) and Italia Pennino (1912–2004), a lyricist and matriarch of the Coppola family. His siblings are film director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire; his uncle is composer Anton Coppola. August Coppola married German-American dancer Joy Vogelsang in 1960; they had three sons: Marc, Christopher, and Nicolas. Among his nieces and nephews are director Sofia Coppola
Bob Sweeney (actor and director) Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" (1964). Sweeney is best known for his successes as a television director and producer, most notably as the director of the first three seasons of "The Andy Griffith Show" and as producer and/or director of episodes of several other highly successful TV series including "Hawaii Five-O", "That Girl", "The Love Boat", "Matlock", "Hogan's Heroes", and "Dynasty". He also directed Gene Evans's unsuccessful 1976 CBS adventure series, "Spencer's Pilots". Although Bob Sweeney never won an Emmy Award he was nominated on three occasions, twice for "Hawaii Five-O" (1971 and 1973) and once for "The Love Boat" (1983). He