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Carlo Ponti is a Producer and Thanks Italien born on 11 december 1912 at Magenta (Italie)

Carlo Ponti

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Birth name Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti
Nationality Italie
Birth 11 december 1912 at Magenta (Italie)
Death 10 january 2007 (at 94 years) at Geneva (Suisse)

Carlo Ponti (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with over 140 production credits, and the husband of Italian movie star Sophia Loren.

Biography

Enfance et formation
Carlo Ponti voit le jour à Magenta en Lombardie, la ville dont son grand-père est maire. Il suit des études de droit à l'université de Milan. Il se joint au cabinet de son père à Milan et se trouve mêlé dans le milieu du cinéma pour la négociation des contrats.


Carrière
En 1940, il tente de créer une industrie cinématographique à Milan et produit son premier long métrage Piccolo mondo antico (Le Mariage de minuit) de Mario Soldati, dans lequel Alida Valli tient son premier rôle important. Ce film est examiné par le la loi italienne luttant contre la Restauration autrichienne dans le royaume d’Italie pendant le Risorgimento et a connu le succès, car il a pris l’exemple des Autrichiens avec les Allemands durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Pour cette cause, il est brièvement emprisonné pour nuisance de relations avec le Troisième Reich.

En 1941, il accepte une offre de Lux Film, société de production appartenant à Riccardo Gualino à Rome, où il produit des films à succès commerciaux mettant en scène l’acteur Totò. En 1954, il a beaucoup de succès avec la production du film La Strada de Federico Fellini. Cependant, ce dernier nie le succès du producteur : « La Strada est produit par Carlo Ponti et Dino De Laurentiis ». Il produit ensuite Boccaccio '70 (1962), Hier, aujourd'hui et demain (Ieri, oggi, domani, 1963) et Mariage à l'italienne (Matrimonio all'italiana, 1964) de Vittorio De Sica, ainsi que les films populaires Le Docteur Jivago de David Lean (Doctor Zhivago, 1965) et Blow-Up de Michelangelo Antonioni (1966).

Le 26 juin 1996, il est décoré de chevalier grand-croix de l'ordre du Mérite de la République italienne à Rome.


Vie privée
Mariages
En 1946, Carlo Ponti se marie à Giuliana Fiastri, avec qui il a une fille, née en 1951, et un garçon, né en 1953. Cependant, en 1951, en tant que jury du concours de beauté, il rencontre une actrice de dix-sept ans Sofia Lazzaro. Il lui propose des rôles dans des films comme Anna d'Alberto Lattuada dans la même année. En 1952, son ami Goffredo Lombardo, chef de production à Titanus, change le nom de cette actrice en Sophia Loren.

Le divorce étant interdit en Italie, il obtient le contrat de divorce au Mexique et, en 1957, épouse Sophia Loren par procuration : la justice italienne le condamne pour bigamie.

Il coproduit plusieurs films mettant en vedette Sophia Loren à Hollywood. En 1960, tous deux retournent en Italie, lorsqu'ils sont convoqués à la cour, ils sont à nouveau refusé à se marier. En 1962, après avoir arrangé avec sa première femme, ils contiennent leur mariage annulé et, tous les trois, partent en France où ils demandent la naturalisation française. En 1965, Giuliana et Carlo Ponti sont officiellement divorcés, ce qui permet, en 1966, d’épouser Sophia Loren à Sèvres. Ils deviennent citoyens français suite à une demande approuvée par le président de la République française Georges Pompidou.

Ensemble, ils ont deux enfants, dont Carlo Ponti Jr., né le 29 décembre 1968, et Edoardo Ponti, né le 6 janvier 1973.


Polémique
En 1979, sa condamnation à une lourde amende par le fisc italien et le transfert de ses affaires au Canada marquent la fin de son formidable parcours de producteur.


Mort
Au milieu de la nuit du mardi 9 au mercredi 10 janvier 2007, il meurt des suites d'une complication pulmonaire dans un hôpital à Genève.

Best films

Doctor Zhivago (1965)
(Producer)
War and Peace (1956)
(Executive Producer)
Ulysses (1954)
(Producer)
A Special Day (1977)
(Producer)
Jury of One (1974)
(Producer)
Madame (1961)
(Producer)

Usually with

Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren
(38 films)
Steno
Steno
(18 films)
Mario Monicelli
Mario Monicelli
(17 films)
Piero Gherardi
Piero Gherardi
(15 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Carlo Ponti (161 films)

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Producer

Aurora
Aurora (1984)
, 1h35
Directed by Maurizio Ponzi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Sophia Loren, Daniel J. Travanti, Edoardo Ponti, Angela Goodwin, Ricky Tognazzi, Marisa Merlini
Roles Producer
Rating59% 2.9614552.9614552.9614552.9614552.961455
A desperate woman (Loren), in crisis and poverty, is in search of the cruel husband (Noiret) who abandoned after giving her a son. The boy has now become almost an adult has a serious eye problem and is likely to become completely blind. The mother then choose to leave to go in search of his father, who in the meantime is starting a new life. When the mother finds out where he is, also learns that the cruel man has remade a family by marrying a young girl, who became the mother of a twenty-year-old son who has had the cruel man from another relationship.
Killer Fish, 1h41
Directed by Antonio Margheriti
Origin Italie
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Heist films
Actors Lee Majors, Karen Black, Margaux Hemingway, Marisa Berenson, James Franciscus, Anthony Steffen
Roles Executive Producer
Rating42% 2.1108252.1108252.1108252.1108252.110825
The mastermind behind a precision theft of priceless emeralds decides to hide the jewels at the bottom of a reservoir he's secretly stocked with savage deadly piranha. Retrieving the gems turns to be a caper in itself since the group is now torn by suspicion and jealousy. Several gang members try to recover the loot on their own, only to become screaming victims of the insatiable horde of killer fish. The treasure is down there just waiting to be brought up. To get them, everyone must face the inescapable terror of thousands of man-eating creatures.
The Squeeze, 1h40
Directed by Antonio Margheriti
Genres Action
Themes Heist films, Gangster films
Actors Lee Van Cleef, Karen Black, Robert Alda, Edward Albert, Lionel Stander, Angelo Infanti
Roles Executive Producer
Rating53% 2.661412.661412.661412.661412.66141
Retired safe-cracker Chris Gretchko is coaxed out of comfortable retirement by Jeff Olafson, the impulsive son of a former accomplice, who begs him to help steal an undocumented shipment of diamonds to satiate Van Stratten, a New York City crime boss whose mistress, Jessica, has been seeing Jeff on the side. Chris subsequently recruits his old friend, pawn shop owner Sam, who agrees to fence the diamonds afterward. When they learn Van Stratten intends to cut them out of the deal, Chris and Jeff plot a countermeasure, resulting in Jeff getting thrown in jail to give him plausible deniability, and Chris convalescing in a safe house after getting shot during the heist. Clarisse, an eccentric neighbor in the building, discovers Chris, and agrees to help tend his injuries and lie to police who come looking for him. However, Captain Donati begins to piece together the events, and all the involved parties find their lives in danger.
A Special Day, 1h45
Directed by Ettore Scola
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée, Politique, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Alessandra Mussolini, Vittorio Guerrieri
Roles Producer
Rating80% 4.04694.04694.04694.04694.0469
On May 8, 1938, the day Hitler visited Mussolini in Rome, Antonietta, a native and sentimental homemaker (Loren) stays home doing her usual domestic tasks, while her fascist husband and her six spoilt children take to the streets to follow the parade. The building is empty except for a neighbor across the complex (Mastroianni), a charming man named Gabriele. He is a radio broadcaster who has been dismissed from his job and is about to be deported to Sardinia because of his anti-fascist stance and his homosexuality. They meet by chance and began to talk. Antonietta is surprised by his opinions and, unaware of his sexual orientation, flirts with him.
Twilight of Love
Directed by Luigi Scattini
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Anthony Steel, Pam Grier, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Alain Montpetit, Gerardo Amato, Annie Belle
Roles Producer
Rating52% 2.6030852.6030852.6030852.6030852.603085
Richard, an elderly director of a Montreal advertising agency, met Dyanne, a young girl who appears to be a perfect model for the launch of a new perfume.
Ugly, Dirty and Bad, 1h55
Directed by Ettore Scola
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about families
Actors Nino Manfredi, Zoe Incrocci, Marcella Michelangeli, Adriana Russo, Beryl Cunningham
Roles Producer
Rating76% 3.8468153.8468153.8468153.8468153.846815
The film tells the grotesque story of a large Apulian family living in an extremely poor shantytown of the periphery of Rome. The protagonist is one-eyed patriarch Giacinto (Manfredi). Four generations of his sons and relatives are cramped together in his shack, managing to get by mainly on thieving and whoring, among other things more or less respectable.
The Cassandra Crossing, 2h9
Directed by George Cosmatos
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Medical-themed films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Disaster films, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen, Lee Strasberg, Ava Gardner
Roles Producer
Rating62% 3.1488553.1488553.1488553.1488553.148855
When the existence of a strain of plague (vaguely identified as pneumonic) is revealed at the U.S. mission at the International Health Organization, three terrorists seek to blow up the U.S. mission. Two of them are shot, one mortally, by security personnel but one escapes. The surviving terrorist is hospitalized and quarantined and identified as Swedish. Dr. Elena Stradner (Ingrid Thulin) and U.S. Colonel Stephen Mackenzie (Burt Lancaster) (Military Intelligence assigned to the IHO) argue over the nature of the strain, which Stradner suspects is a biological weapon but which Colonel Mackenzie claims was in the process of being destroyed.
Colpita da improvviso benessere
Genres Comedy
Actors Giovanna Ralli, Stefano Satta Flores, Glauco Onorato, Renato Scarpa, Mario Carotenuto, Franco Citti
Roles Producer
Rating64% 3.247863.247863.247863.247863.24786
Elisabetta est une poissonniere aux aspirations petites-bourgeoises qui cohabite avec Luiso Malerba, anarchiste.
The Passenger, 2h6
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about writers, Films about journalists, Transport films, L'usurpation d'identité, Road movies, Escroquerie
Actors Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Steven Berkoff, Ian Hendry, Jenny Runacre, José María Caffarel
Roles Producer
Rating74% 3.747863.747863.747863.747863.74786
David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is a television journalist making a documentary film on post-colonial Africa. To finish the film, he is in the Sahara desert seeking to meet with and interview rebel fighters involved in Chad's civil war. Struggling to find rebels to interview, he is frustrated when his Land Rover gets hopelessly stuck on a sand dune. After a long walk through the desert back to his hotel, a thoroughly glum Locke learns that an Englishman, Robertson (Charles Mulvehill), who has also been staying there and with whom he had struck up a friendship, has died overnight at the hotel.
Cry, Onion!, 1h31
Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Sterling Hayden, Leo Anchóriz, Romano Puppo, Helmut Brasch
Roles Producer
Rating54% 2.702222.702222.702222.702222.70222
Onion, un gentil aventurier arrive dans la ville de Paradise City. Il a acheté un terrain à un certain Foster, mystérieusement mort dans un accident, afin d'y planter des oignons. Onion découvre que Foster a été tué par les sbires de Petrus Lamb, propriétaire de la Oil Company, une compagnie pétrolière prête à tout pour obtenir les terres nécessaires à l'extraction du pétrole brut.
The Flower in His Mouth, 1h53
Directed by Luigi Zampa
Genres Drama
Actors Jennifer O'Neill, Franco Nero, James Mason, Orazio Orlando, Aldo Giuffrè, Claudio Gora
Roles Producer
Rating63% 3.198053.198053.198053.198053.19805
Une institutrice est impliquée dans un meurtre dans une ville sicilienne quelques heures seulement après son arrivée. Le mort l'avait insultée dans le bus en allant en ville. Au fur et à mesure que le mystère se dévoile, il devient clair que la ville cache des secrets très sinistres.
The Sensuous Nurse, 1h45
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Ursula Andress, Duilio Del Prete, Jack Palance, Luciana Paluzzi, Mario Pisu, Carla Romanelli
Roles Producer
Rating48% 2.422922.422922.422922.422922.42292
As an aging widower begins suffering from heart trouble, his greedy heirs hope to speed him on his way by hiring a seductive nurse (Andress) to get his pulse racing. Their plan eventually backfires as the young beauty begins to fall in love with the old man.
The Baby Sitter, 1h50
Directed by René Clément
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Vic Morrow, Robert Vaughn, Renato Pozzetto, Nadja Tiller
Roles Producer
Rating54% 2.7060852.7060852.7060852.7060852.706085
A Rome, Michelle et Anne sont colocataires depuis deux mois. Michelle fait de la sculpture moderne et aussi du baby-sitting pour arrondir ses fins de mois. Anne fait du cinéma, des tout petits rôles. Elle entre en conflit avec l'équipe de tournage, ne désirant plus tourner nue depuis un récent accident de voiture. En même temps Henderson l'homme d'affaire du richissime Cyrus Franklin s'intéresse à elle.