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

Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola recalls the "horror" of surviving childhood polio amid questions about the future of its vaccine.

Francis Ford Coppola, the Oscar-winning Bay Area filmmaker and polio survivor, is sounding the alarm over the growing wave of vaccine skepticism in the United States, particularly regarding polio. In a new interview,

Coppola was saved by his father’s unwillingness to accept the diagnosis. Carmine Coppola was a composer who won Oscar scoring several of his son’s films, but perhaps his greatest achievement in his son’s work was going against the grain to ensure Francis Coppola would get a proper shot at life.

The "Megalopolis" filmmaker responds to vaccine skeptics among the president-elect's cabinet picks, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The post Francis Ford Coppola Slams ‘Absurd’ Idea Trump Would ‘Reverse Course’ on Vaccines,

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 recalled feeling ‘frightened’ for the other kids on the hospital ward, only to realise his own situation was worse than he initially thought.

Francis Ford Coppola was warned he'd never walk again after contracting polio. The 85-year-old director was stricken by the virus as a child and recalled feeling "frightened" for the other kids on the hospital ward,