Albert Ruddy, The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby producer, dies at 94

Ruddy, born in Canada, produced more than 30 movies, and was on hand for the very top and very bottom

Albert S Ruddy, a colorful, Canadian-born producer and writer who won Oscars for The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby, developed the raucous prison-sports comedy The Longest Yard and helped create the hit sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, has died at age 94.

Ruddy died “peacefully” Saturday at the UCLA medical center, according to a spokesperson, who added that among his final words were: “The game is over, but we won the game.”