Trivia

At The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973), Clint Eastwood presented the 1972 Best Picture Oscar to Ruddy, the producer of "The Godfather (1972)".Thirty-two years later, they would jointly accept the 2004 Best Picture Oscar at The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005), along with fellow "Million Dollar Baby (2004)" co-producer Tom Rosenberg.

Ruddy worked for the Rand Corporation before he worked in films, and then later worked for Ayn Rand attempting to produce Atlas Shrugged as a movie in the seventies.

After his modest success with Little Fauss and Big Halsy (a film about itinerant motorcycle bums), Ruddy next planned to do a film about female Roller Derby skaters. Then, however, The Godfather came into the world, and the Roller Derby film never got off the ground.

Father of actress Alexandra Ruddy.