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Carlo Ponti

1912 - 2007

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Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. (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 such as Agnès Varda and David Lean. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carlo Ponti is the 3rd most popular producer, the 561st most popular biography from Italy (up from 596th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Producer.

Carlo Ponti is most famous for being the husband of Sophia Loren.

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Among PRODUCERS

Among producers, Carlo Ponti ranks 3 out of 140. Before him are Walt Disney, and Harvey Weinstein. After him are Kathleen Kennedy, Robert Evans, Rick Rubin, Dino De Laurentiis, René Angélil, Simon Cowell, Jerry Bruckheimer, Phil Spector, and David O. Selznick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Carlo Ponti ranks 19. Before him are Raoul Wallenberg, Clara Petacci, Alfredo Stroessner, Khalid of Saudi Arabia, János Kádár, and Millvina Dean. After him are Jorge Amado, Gene Kelly, Konrad Emil Bloch, Alois Brunner, Chuck Jones, and Ghazi of Iraq. Among people deceased in 2007, Carlo Ponti ranks 12. Before him are Mohammed Zahir Shah, Kurt Waldheim, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ève Curie, Jean Baudrillard, and Mstislav Rostropovich. After him are Ernst Otto Fischer, Kai Siegbahn, Maurice Béjart, Marcel Marceau, Alan Ball Jr., and Benazir Bhutto.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carlo Ponti ranks 561 out of 5,161. Before him are Cornelius Nepos (-100), Pope Agapetus I (490), Lavinia Fontana (1552), Elena Ferrante (1943), Antonello da Messina (1430), and Giosuè Carducci (1835). After him are Giuseppe Peano (1858), Ornella Muti (1955), Alberto Ascari (1918), Petronius Maximus (396), Marcello Lippi (1948), and Carlo Gesualdo (1566).

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Among PRODUCERS In Italy

Among producers born in Italy, Carlo Ponti ranks 1. After him are Dino De Laurentiis (1919), Aurelio De Laurentiis (1949), Franco Cristaldi (1924), Alberto Grimaldi (1925), and Mario Cecchi Gori (1920).

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