Carlo Ponti
- Production
- December 11, 1912 · Magenta, Lombardy, Italy
- January 10, 2007
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carlo Ponti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Sophia Loren, a special destiny · Self
- Saturday, Sunday and Monday · Executive producer
- Killer Fish · Executive producer
- The Squeeze · Executive producer
- A Special Day · Producer
- Twilight of Love · Producer
- The Cassandra Crossing · Producer
- Ugly, Dirty and Bad · Producer
- Colpita da improvviso benessere · Producer
- Brief Encounter · Producer
- The Boss and the Worker · Producer
- The Sensuous Nurse · Producer
- The Flower in His Mouth · Producer
- The Babysitter · Producer
- Cry, Onion! · Producer
- The Passenger · Producer
- Gun Moll · Producer
- Policewoman · Producer
- Jury of One · Producer
- Blood for Dracula · Producer
- The Beast · Producer
- Whisky and Ghosts · Producer
- Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia? · Producer
- Run, Run, Joe! · Producer
- The Voyage · Producer
- High School Girl · Producer
- Flesh for Frankenstein · Producer
- Giordano Bruno · Producer
- Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment · Producer
- Massacre in Rome · Producer
- The Violent Professionals · Producer
- Gawain and the Green Knight · Producer
- Dirty Weekend · Producer
- Dear Parents · Producer
- Torso · Producer
- What? · Producer
- The Pisciotta Case · Producer
- Dear Louise · Producer
- White Sister · Producer
- Lady Liberty · Producer
- Oasis of Fear · Producer
- The Priest's Wife · Producer
- Zabriskie Point · Producer
- Sunflower · Producer
- A Place for Lovers · Producer
- Diamonds for Breakfast · Producer
- Ghosts, Italian Style · Producer
- Smashing Time · Producer
- The Firemen's Ball · Producer
- More Than a Miracle · Producer
- The Girl and the General · Producer
- The Man with the Balloons · Producer
- The 25th Hour · Producer
- Blow-Up · Producer
- Kiss the Other Sheik · Producer
- Doctor Zhivago · Producer
- Lady L · Producer
- The 10th Victim · Producer
- Casanova '70 · Producer
- Operation Crossbow · Producer
- Tokyo Olympiad · Thanks
- A Look Back at Crossbow · Producer
- Marriage Italian Style · Producer
- Controsesso · Producer
- The Ape Woman · Producer
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow · Producer
- The Empty Canvas · Producer
- Contempt · Producer
- Adultero lui, adultera lei · Producer
- The Carabineers · Producer
- Bluebeard · Producer
- Le Doulos · Producer
- The Condemned of Altona · Producer
- Arturo's Island · Producer
- Redhead · Producer
- The Third Lover · Producer
- Cléo from 5 to 7 · Producer
- Boccaccio '70 · Producer
- Léon Morin, Priest · Producer
- A Woman Is a Woman · Producer