Carlo Ponti

Personal Info

Known For Producer

Gender Male

Birthday 1912-12-11

Deathday 2007-01-10 (94 years old)

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 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

Producer

1990
Saturday, Sunday and Monday

as Executive Producer

1979
Killer Fish

as Executive Producer

1978
The Squeeze

as Executive Producer

1977
Twilight of Love

as Producer

1977
A Special Day

as Producer

1976
1976
1975
The Sensuous Nurse

as Producer

1975
The Passenger

as Producer

1975
The Baby Sitter

as Producer

1975
1975
Gun Moll

as Producer

1975
1975
Cry, Onion!

as Producer

1974
Jury of One

as Producer

1974
High School Girl

as Producer

1974
Blood for Dracula

as Producer

1974
Run, Run, Joe!

as Producer

1974
Policewoman

as Producer

1974
The Beast

as Producer

1974
The Voyage

as Producer

1974
Brief Encounter

as Producer

1974
Whisky and Ghosts

as Producer

1973
Dear Parents

as Producer

1973
Torso

as Producer

1973
Giordano Bruno

as Producer

1973
Dirty Weekend

as Producer

1973
1973
Massacre in Rome

as Producer

1972
The Pisciotta Case

as Producer

1972
White Sister

as Producer

1972
What?

as Producer

1971
Lady Liberty

as Producer

1971
Oasis of Fear

as Producer

1970
Sunflower

as Producer

1970
Zabriskie Point

as Producer

1970
The Priest's Wife

as Producer

1970
Pan Tau

as Producer

1968
A Place for Lovers

as Producer

1968
1967
1967
The Firemen's Ball

as Producer

1967
The 25th Hour

as Producer

1967
1967
1967
Smashing Time

as Producer

1966
Blow-Up

as Producer

1965
Doctor Zhivago

as Producer

1965
Casanova '70

as Producer

1965
The 10th Victim

as Producer

1965
Operation Crossbow

as Producer

1965
Lady L

as Producer

1965
1965
1964
1964
The Ape Woman

as Producer

1964
Controsesso

as Producer

1963
Contempt

as Producer

1963
Bluebeard

as Producer

1963
The Carabineers

as Producer

1963
The Empty Canvas

as Producer

1962
Le Doulos

as Producer

1962
1962
Arturo's Island

as Producer

1962
Cléo from 5 to 7

as Producer

1962
Redhead

as Producer

1962
The Third Lover

as Producer

1962
Boccaccio '70

as Producer

1961
Lola

as Producer

1961
1961
A Woman Is a Woman

as Producer

1960
1960
Il corazziere

as Producer

1960
Two Women

as Producer

1960
1960
1959
That Kind of Woman

as Producer

1959
The Black Orchid

as Producer

1958
Camping

as Producer

1958
March's Child

as Producer

1957
1957
Marisa

as Producer

1957
Guendalina

as Producer

1957
Female Three Times

as Producer

1956
War and Peace

as Executive Producer

1956
1956
Rice Girl

as Producer

1956
The Railroad Man

as Producer

1955
L'ultimo amante

as Producer

1955
Girls of Today

as Producer

1955
Totò all'inferno

as Producer

1954
La Strada

as Producer

1954
Human Torpedoes

as Producer

1954
Woman of Rome

as Producer

1954
Attila

as Producer

1954
1954
Woman of the River

as Producer

1954
Where Is Freedom?

as Producer

1954
Mambo

as Producer

1954
Ulysses

as Producer

1954
The Gold of Naples

as Producer

1954
1953
The She-Wolf

as Producer

1953
Easy Years

as Producer

1953
The Unfaithfuls

as Producer

1952
I tre corsari

as Producer

1952
1952
Brothers of Italy

as Producer

1952
Toto and the Women

as Producer

1952
Totó in color

as Producer

1952
Europe '51

as Producer

1952
Sensualità

as Producer

1952
Lieutenant Giorgio

as Producer

1951
Damn the Taxes!!

as Producer

1951
Last Meeting

as Producer

1951
Anna

as Producer

1951
Toto the Third Man

as Producer

1951
Cops and Robbers

as Producer

1951
1950
The White Line

as Producer

1950
1950
1950
A Dog’s Life

as Producer

1950
Outlaw Girl

as Producer

1949
Totò cerca casa

as Producer

1949
1949
The Mill on the Po

as Producer

1949
Romanticismo

as Producer

1949
Campane a martello

as Producer

1948
Les Misérables

as Producer

1948
Escape to France

as Producer

1948
Lost Youth

as Producer

1948
1948
Guaglio

as Producer

1948
Without Pity

as Producer

1947
La primula bianca

as Producer

1947
To Live in Peace

as Producer

1946
1946
Professor, My Son

as Producer

1946
1945
1945
1943
1942
Signorinette

as Producer

1941

Actor

2019
Sophia Loren, a special destiny

as Self (archive footage)

1954

Crew

1965
Tokyo Olympiad

as Thanks