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Godfather producer Al Ruddy dead at 94: Hollywood icon, who co-created Hogan's Heroes and worked on Million Dollar Baby, was featured in The Offer... as Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino, Miles Teller and Hilary Swank pay tribute


The Oscar-winning The Godfather producer Al Ruddy has died after a brief illness at the age of 94, it was shared on Tuesday. Ruddy worked on the Clint Eastwood Million Dollar Baby.

His work had recently come to light in the smash hit series The Offer, where Miles Teller played Ruddy as he put together the epic Francis Ford Coppola gangster movie from 1972. Ruddy (left) and actor Marlon Brando on the set of The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in Little Italy, New York City, 1972 'Fred Roos possessed a casting instinct that was near infallible: so beautifully demonstrated in AMERICAN GRAFFITTI and THE OUTSIDERS,' Coppola, 85, wrote in his tribute, alongside a picture of the pair together.

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