American director, producer, actor, and writer born on 25 January 1962 in Los Angeles County, California, US. He is a member of the renowned Coppola family; he is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and brother of actor Nicholas Cage. He earned a BS in film/cinema/video studies from San Francisco Art Institute in 1985. He is the president of PlasterCITY Productions, Inc. His most notable works include Dracula's Widow (1988), Deadfall (1993), Palmer's Pick-Up (1999), and Sacred Blood (2015).