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August Coppola, Nicolas Cage’s father, dead at 75

By Claire Noland
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August Coppola, the father of actor Nicolas Cage and brother of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, and a former literature professor, died Oct. 27 of a heart attack, Cage’s publicist Annett Wolf said today. He was 75.

A graduate of UCLA who had a doctorate from Occidental College, Coppola taught literature and had been the dean of creative arts at San Francisco State.

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He moved to Savannah, Ga., in the 1990s because he said he needed to find a quiet place to write.

Update: The full obituary is now here.

-- Claire Noland

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Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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