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Francis Ford Coppola, born in Detroit, Michigan, in (1939), is an Oscar-winning director. He went behind the camera to helm such genre projects as the baroque Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), the time-tripping Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), and his early black-and-white axe-murder mystery, Dementia 13 (1963). He also directed the "Rip Van Winkle" installment of Faerie Tale Theatre. As a producer, he has lent his clout to such genre fare as Sleepy Hollow (1999), Haunted (1995), Kenneth Branagh's version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), George Lucas' early THX 1138, and two memorable made-for-television titles, The Odyssey (1997), and The People (1972).