Tom Luddy, a quietly influential film archivist and movie producer who was also a founder of the idiosyncratic Telluride Film Festival, died Feb. 13 at his home in Berkeley, California. He was 79.
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Bill Luddy died peacefully and without pain, surrounded by his wife and family, on February 12, 2021.
Bill was born on January 14, 1947 in New Britain Connecticut to Mildred and William Luddy, Sr. He attended St. Joseph School in New Britain, St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield, CT and St. Thomas Aquinas School in New Britain. He received his BS from Fairfield University, his Masters at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his Law Degree from the University of Connecticut. He was a Professor in the MBA and executive programs of the Hartford branch of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he also served as Dean. He taught most of the courses in the programs, focusing on Business Policy and Strategy, Ethics, Law, and Corporate Governance. In this capacity, Bill instructed and mentored thousands of students and other professors in preparing for their professional lives, and in teaching them values that would assure that they made a contr