Carlo Ponti

Personal Info

Know For

Production

Gender

Male

Birthday

1912-12-11 (95 years old)

Deathday

2007-01-10

Place of Birth

Magenta, Lombardy, Italy

Carlo Ponti

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...

Acting

2019

Sophia Loren, a special destiny

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1963

Contempt

as Producer

1954

La Strada

as Producer

1966

Blow-Up

as Producer

1970

Sunflower

as Producer

1965

Doctor Zhivago

as Producer

1963

Bluebeard

as Producer

1970

Zabriskie Point

as Producer

1948

Les Misérables

as Producer

1974

Jury of One

as Producer

1975

1965

Casanova '70

as Producer

1962

Le Doulos

as Producer

1952

I tre corsari

as Producer

1956

War and Peace

as Executive Producer

1974

High School Girl

as Producer

1975

The Passenger

as Producer

1977

Twilight of Love

as Producer

1977

A Special Day

as Producer

1979

Killer Fish

as Executive Producer

1967

1964

1960

1973

Dear Parents

as Producer

1954

Human Torpedoes

as Producer

1954

Woman of Rome

as Producer

1954

Attila

as Producer

1975

The Baby Sitter

as Producer

1990

Saturday, Sunday and Monday

as Executive Producer

1978

The Squeeze

as Executive Producer

1967

The 25th Hour

as Producer

1967

1968

1954

1974

1952

1957

1948

Escape to France

as Producer

1951

Damn the Taxes!!

as Producer

1950

The White Line

as Producer

1957

Marisa

as Producer

1965

1946

1970

1971

Lady Liberty

as Producer

1950

1948

Lost Youth

as Producer

1974

Run, Run, Joe!

as Producer

1954

1972

1952

1972

White Sister

as Producer

1962

Arturo's Island

as Producer

1953

The She-Wolf

as Producer

1951

Last Meeting

as Producer

1974

Policewoman

as Producer

1957

Guendalina

as Producer

1942

Signorinette

as Producer

1953

Easy Years

as Producer

1956

1943

1959

1962

1960

Il corazziere

as Producer

1973

Torso

as Producer

1948

1974

The Beast

as Producer

1974

The Voyage

as Producer

1952

1955

L'ultimo amante

as Producer

1945

1951

Anna

as Producer

1976

1951

1952

Totó in color

as Producer

1952

Europe '51

as Producer

1945

1955

Girls of Today

as Producer

1948

Guaglio

as Producer

1965

The 10th Victim

as Producer

1949

1973

Giordano Bruno

as Producer

1952

Sensualità

as Producer

1972

What?

as Producer

1967

1965

1960

Two Women

as Producer

1947

1958

Camping

as Producer

1958

March's Child

as Producer

1950

A Dog’s Life

as Producer

1950

1965

Lady L

as Producer

1954

1947

To Live in Peace

as Producer

1975

Gun Moll

as Producer

1971

Oasis of Fear

as Producer

1961

Lola

as Producer

1961

1953

The Unfaithfuls

as Producer

1961

1963

The Carabineers

as Producer

1954

Mambo

as Producer

1964

The Ape Woman

as Producer

1948

Without Pity

as Producer

1949

1949

Romanticismo

as Producer

1950

Outlaw Girl

as Producer

1955

1960

1962

Redhead

as Producer

1962

The Third Lover

as Producer

1962

Boccaccio '70

as Producer

1952

1964

Controsesso

as Producer

1968

1954

Ulysses

as Producer

1973

Dirty Weekend

as Producer

1957

1956

Rice Girl

as Producer

1974

Brief Encounter

as Producer

1974

1973

1959

The Black Orchid

as Producer

1976

1941

1963

The Empty Canvas

as Producer

1949

1973

Massacre in Rome

as Producer

1967

Smashing Time

as Producer

1954

1951

Cops and Robbers

as Producer

1951

1956

The Railroad Man

as Producer

1954

1965

1960

1975

Cry, Onion!

as Producer

1948

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