The presence of Mr. Ruddy on the information convention so indignant Charles Bluhdorn, the flamable chairman of Gulf & Western, Paramount’s mum or dad, that he fired him. But if Mr. Bluhdorn advised Francis Ford Coppola, the director, and Robert Evans, the studio’s vp of manufacturing, to search out any other manufacturer, Mr. Coppola intervened.
“Al Ruddy’s the only guy who can keep this movie going!” he advised Mr. Bluhdorn.
“The Godfather” received 3 Oscars, together with Mr. Ruddy’s for easiest image; for easiest actor, for Marlon Brando’s portrayal of Don Vito Corleone; and for easiest tailored screenplay, by means of Mr. Coppola and Mr. Puzo. The movie has been broadly praised as one of the vital easiest motion pictures ever made.
It spawned “The Godfather Part II” (1974), which additionally received the Oscar for easiest image, and “The Godfather Part III” (1990), which was once broadly skewered. Mr. Ruddy had not anything to do with the sequels. Fred Roos (who died on Might 18) was once a manufacturer of each, as he was once of alternative movies by means of Mr. Coppola, his daughter, Sofia Coppola, and his spouse, Eleanor Coppola (who died closing date).
Mr. Ruddy was once born Albert Stotland on March 28, 1930, in Montreal. His father, Hyman, manufactured uniforms. His mom, Ruth (Rudnikoff) Stotland, was once a clothes and comfort fur fashion designer. Then his oldsters divorced when Albert was once 6, his mom took him, his sister, Selma, and his brother, Gerald, to Unutilized York Town and adjusted their nation surname to Ruddy.
Then learning on the Town Faculty of Unutilized York, Albert attended the College of Southern California and graduated with an structure stage in 1956. He was once in brief the architect for a development corporate in Unutilized Jersey however selected to exit again to the West Coast. There he was once a programmer for the RAND Company, a shoe salesman and the manufacturer of a play games, “The Connection” (1959), about drug dependancy, and the film “Wild Seed” (1965), a couple of junior runaway in search of her organic father.
