Thomas P. Kelly Jr.
He worked on award-winning documentaries before spending nearly three decades at the university.
Thomas P. Kelly Jr., an Oscar-nominated producer who served as a professor and dean of Loyola Marymount University s College of Communication and Fine Arts for nearly three decades, has died. He was 91.
A resident of Glendale, Kelly died April 7 of natural causes, his daughter Liz Kelly Barone announced.
Kelly wrote and produced the Oscar-nominated
A Space to Grow (1968), a 32-minute documentary narrated by Henry Fonda about the federally funded Upward Bound program that aims to engage students in learning to inspire them to attend college.