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.
He was an LMU professor from 1974-94, teaching classes on documentary writing, television and film production, fundamentals of directing and other subjects, then served as dean of LMU's College of.
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