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Bluhdorn married Yvette M. LeMarrec, formerly of Paris, in the 1950s. [4] He was a tireless executive who was once dubbed "The Mad Austrian of Wall Street." He maintained his position as chairman of Gulf and Western Industries until his death. [6]
- Miles Teller as Albert S. Ruddy
- Matthew Goode as Robert Evans
- Juno Temple as Bettye Mccartt
- Giovanni Ribisi as Joe Colombo
- Patrick Gallo as Mario Puzo
- Dan Fogler as Francis Ford Coppola
- Burn Gorman as Charles Bluhdorn
- Colin Hanks as Barry Lapidus
- Other Real-Life Characters in The Offer
Albert S. Ruddy is the Academy Award-winning producer of The Godfather. Teller’s depiction of Ruddy is as a man on a mission. Not only does he walk up to a Paramount executive in the lot after only having met the other man at a party, but he pitches himself as a producer and gets the job. He also does everything in his power to make The Godfather a...
Robert Evans was Paramount Pictures' head of production from the late-1960s to the early 1970s. Evans is the go-between for Ruddy and Paramount owner Charles Bluhdorn. He is portrayed as a bit of a hustler in the series, always ready to give a speech on his love for movies, but also playing things a bit underhanded in his negotiations. Along with u...
In The Offer, Bettye McCartt is Albert S. Ruddy's secretary and resourceful Girl Friday who shows the fledgling producer the ropes and keeps him on track. Temple's McCartt is just as front-and-center as the male producers in The Offer cast, a rarity in Hollywood's historic pictures. McCartt has Ruddy’s same tenacity, inserting herself onto his team...
Joe Colombo spearheads Italian-American resistance againstThe Godfather novel because of their belief it defames Italian-Americans. Colombo eventually got the producers to make certain concessions, becoming an ally to the production of the movie as long as things went his way. Colombo was a notorious gangster and the head of the Colombo crime famil...
Mario Puzo is the best-selling author of The Godfather. The series makes the point that Puzo struggled when writing about the mafia, falling into stereotypes that audiences might have seen before, but he continued to put in the work, and he even co-wrote the movie. In 1965, Puzo was struggling and deep in debt when he decided to 'cash in' and write...
Francis Ford Coppola is the acclaimed director and co-writer of The Godfather. Among The Offer cast, Fogler has earned the most praise from critics for his portrayal. Fogler plays him as someone extremely focused on the vision for the project. He was a central figure in the New Hollywood movement of the 1960s and 1970s and won the Academy Award for...
Charles Bluhdorn was the CEO of Gulf + Western, the corporation that owned Paramount Pictures in the 1970s. The eccentric, Austrian-born Bluhdorn hired Robert Evans, a former failed actor, to run Paramount Pictures. In The Offer, Bluhdorn is the boss of Evans and Albert S. Ruddy who struggles to support their vision for the picture while keeping an...
Colin Hanks is one of the only The Offer cast members who doesn't have the burden of a real-life person on his shoulder. Barry Lapidus is one of the few fictional characters in The Offer. Lapidus is a high-ranking executive at Gulf + Western who is cast in an antagonistic role and lords over Robert Evans and Albert S. Ruddy to make The Godfather as...
Josh Zuckerman as Peter Bart - Peter Bart was an executive at Paramount hired by Robert Evans, and it was Bart who had the idea to option The Godfather's manuscript while it was being written by Mario Puzo with an eye toward adapting it into a film. Today, Bart is the vice president and editorial director of Variety. Zuckerman starred in Kyle XY, D...
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Apr 28, 2022 · Charles Bluhdorn (Burn Gorham) made the decision to keep Paramount in the Gulf & Western bulging portfolio, and Evans kept his job (that day). The big picture under discussion was. “The...
Jan 28, 2022 · Along with Gulf+Western industrialist Charles Bluhdorn (Burn Gorman) and the fictionalized studio executive Barry Lapidus (Colin Hanks), Evans often balked at the filmmaker’s demands and ...
Jul 8, 2021 · Burn Gorman (The Expanse) has been tapped to play the series regular role of Charles Bluhdorn opposite Miles Teller and Matthew Goode in Paramount+’s upcoming limited series The Offer, about...
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Apr 10, 2023 · Something of a corporate urban legend has it that company executives traveling with Bluhdorn scurried to tell their brokers to sell their shares before his death became known, figuring to get ahead...
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Apr 27, 2022 · Tremendous forces came together during the production of “The Godfather,” helmed by producer Albert S. Ruddy for Paramount, back when Robert Evans was head honcho under owner Charles Bluhdorn.
