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Carlo Ponti

Producer
Born December 11, 1912Died January 10, 2007 (94 years)
Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and financially-successful films of the 1950s and 1960s.

Ponti worked with many of the most important directors of Italian cinema of the era, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Vittorio De Sica, as well as many international directors. He helped launch the career of his wife, international film star Sophia Loren. He won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film for La Strada (1954) and was nominated for Best Picture for producing Doctor Zhivago (1965). In 1996, he was ascended as a Knight Grand Cross to the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Two Women
  • Le Doulos
  • Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
  • The Cassandra Crossing
  • Flesh for Frankenstein
  • Blood for Dracula
  • The 10th Victim
  • What?
  • Killer Fish
  • The Railroad Man
  • Brief Encounter

Known For

  • Blow-Up
  • Doctor Zhivago
  • La Strada
  • Cléo from 5 to 7
  • The Passenger
  • Zabriskie Point
  • A Special Day
  • The Firemen's Ball
  • Torso
  • Closely Watched Trains
  • A Woman Is a Woman
  • Le Doulos
  • Léon Morin, Priest
  • Operation Crossbow
  • The Cassandra Crossing
  • What?
  • Lola
  • Blood for Dracula
  • Lady L
  • The 10th Victim
  • The Black Orchid

Filmography

1990
Saturday, Sunday and Monday · as Executive Producer
1989
1984
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Killer Fish · as Executive Producer
1978
The Squeeze · as Executive Producer
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The Stranger and the Gunfighter · as Executive Producer
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Closely Watched Trains · as Executive Producer
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War and Peace · as Executive Producer
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