Burton 'Bud' Stone, 80 - Film industry exec, Deluxe Lab president
Bob Feigel
PASSINGS
April 25, 2008
Burton 'Bud' Stone
Film industry exec, Deluxe Lab president
Burton "Bud" Stone, 80, a film industry executive who was president of
Deluxe Laboratories from 1978 to 1994, died April 18 at his home in
Los Angeles, Deluxe announced.
Stone was born in Englewood, N.J., in 1927.
His father, James, was an engineer at a motion picture lab during the
silent-film era.
After serving in the Navy during World War II, Stone attended Florida
Southern College, graduating in 1951.
He went to work as an assistant film editor in New York, then took a
series of management jobs at several film labs before opening his own
company, Allservice Film Laboratories. He joined Deluxe in 1976 and
became president two years later.
Stone received the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation from the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors in 1996
for his "outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high
standards of the Academy."
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"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen
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