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Tony Thompson, 87
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Tony (Carlton Woodruff) Thompson died, surrounded by family, Monday night, September 20. After outrunning the condition for years, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis finally, and quite suddenly, caught up with him.
Tony was born in 1933 in Flushing, NY and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Phillips Academy Andover, finished high school at the Harvard School (LA) and graduated from Stanford University. He was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, flying helicopters from Japan at the end of the Korean Conflict. Tony’s sister, Nancy, introduced him to her UC Boulder roommate, Nancy McDonald and he married the love of his life in 1960.
In the first phase of his career, he had myriad roles in half a dozen cities at Time-Life, Inc., including Associate Publisher of LIFE Magazine en Español in Mexico City, running Time-Life Books South Pacific in Sydney Australia and, finally, helping to start (and, legend has it, coin the name for) Home Box Office (HBO) in New York.