He died at the age of 94 albert randi, Canadian-born producer and screenwriter who has won an Academy Award for his films “The Godfather” And “Million Dollar Baby”created the comedy “The Longest Yard” and helped create the hit sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes.”
Randy died “peacefully” on Saturday at UCLA Medical Center, according to his spokesman, who added that among his last words were: “The game is over, but we won it.”
Albert Stotland Randy was born in Montreal in 1930, moved to the United States as a child and grew up in New York. After graduating from the University of Southern California, he was working as an architect when he met TV actor Bernard Fine in the early 1960s and changed his life forever.
Randy has produced over 30 films, top to bottom, from The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby to Cannonball Run II and Megaforce, and was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture of the Year.
Born in Montreal, he grew up in New York and Miami Beach, Florida. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School before winning a scholarship that allowed him to study chemical engineering at the City College of New York. In 1956, he graduated from the University of Southern California with a bachelor’s degree in architectural design. While at USC, accompanied by his then-girlfriend, who was working on one of Roger Corman’s early films, he went to Palm Springs and ended up becoming the art director of The Monster with a Million Eyes (1955).
Randy worked designing homes for a construction company in Hackensack, New Jersey. This eventually led him to meet Warner Brothers studio head Jack Warner, who offered him a job in Los Angeles after being impressed by his knowledge and enthusiasm for the entertainment industry.
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