August Floyd Coppola (February 16, 1934 – October 27, 2009) was an American academic, author, film executive, and advocate for the arts.

He is credited as being the creator of the Tactile Dome, a feature at the San Francisco Exploratorium museum.

Coppola married German-American dancer Joy Vogelsang (1935–2021) in 1960;[6] they had three sons: Marc, Christopher, and Nicolas.

Coppola's final home was in Los Angeles, where he died of a heart attack on October 27, 2009, at age 75.

The 150-seat August Coppola Theater on the San Francisco State University campus is named in his honor.

[9] Nicolas Cage partially based his idea for the film The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) and his character Balthazar on his father August Coppola.