The Godfather
1972
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Albert Stotland Ruddy (born March 28, 1930) is a Canadian-American film and television producer. He is known for producing The Godfather (1972) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), both of which won him the Academy Award for Best Picture , as well as co-creating the CBS sitcom Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971).
Albert S. Ruddy is a Canadian-American film and television producer who won two Oscars for Best Picture. He also co-created Hogan's Heroes and wrote and produced other movies and shows.
- January 1, 1
- 4 min
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Did the mob protest against the making of The Godfather? In The Offer, the mafia is insulted by the portrayal of Italian Americans in Mario Puzo’s novel.
- Did Frank Sinatra almost beat up Mario Puzo over The Godfather? There’s a moment in the first episode of The Offer in which Mario Puzo (Patrick Gallo) spots Frank Sinatra (Frank John Hughes) at a Hollywood restaurant and decides to tell him how much he means to him.
- Did Robert Evans not want to hire Al Pacino for The Godfather because of his height? Throughout The Offer, Paramount Studio head Robert Evans argues that Francis Ford Coppola can’t cast Al Pacino (Anthony Ippolito) as the lead in The Godfather because he’s too short.
- Did Mario Puzo send Marlon Brando a letter asking him to star in The Godfather? In The Offer, Mario Puzo sends Marlon Brando (played by Grey’s Anatomy’s Justin Chambers) a letter asking him if he’d be interested in playing Don Corleone.
Albert S. Ruddy is a Canadian-American producer who won two Oscars for The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby. He also co-created Hogan's Heroes and worked with Ayn Rand on Atlas Shrugged.
- March 28, 1930
- The Battle with the Real-Life Mafia. Right from the start, the actual mafia–personified by the Five Families of New York City, but stretching across the country and around the world–was against the making of this movie.
- The Battle Over Casting. One of the interesting things about The Godfather is how many members of the cast either had or claimed to have connections to the Mafia or “the boys downtown.”
- The Battle Over Francis Ford Coppola. Like Brando, Coppola was hesitant to direct The Godfather at first. After directing two flops in a row (Finian’s Rainbow and The Rain People), he retreated to San Francisco with his friend George Lucas and started American Zoetrope, a studio aimed at creating artistic, experimental films with iconoclastic filmmakers that avoided the Hollywood formula and mindset.
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Jan 28, 2022 · The Godfather’s myriad dangers and obstacles might have led a producer with more experience than Ruddy to steer clear of the project. But due to a mix of bravado and naivete, Ruddy was the ideal ...
Apr 28, 2022 · A rote Hollywood tale of meetings, doubts overcome, scripts finished, genius unveiled and so forth follows. Goode does have himself quite a time playing Evans as '70s Hollywood made flesh, a ...
