Actor

Carlo Ponti

Production

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Acting credits

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

0.9

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Movies: 156Series: 1Crew credits: 155

TMDB ID: 3778

IMDb ID: nm0690638

Known for: Production

Born: December 11, 1912

Died: January 10, 2007

Age: 94

Place of birth: Magenta, Lombardy, Italy

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1941 - 2019

Years active: 79

Average TMDB rating: 6.61

Wikidata: Q299419

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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.