Dino De Laurentiis
Dino De Laurentiis (born: Agostino de Laurentiis ; born August 8, 1919 in Torre Annunziata , † November 10, 2010 in Los Angeles , USA ) was an Italian film producer .
Life
Dino De Laurentiis was born the son of a pasta maker near Naples. Even in his youth, the cinema became an important fantasy world for him. “I've always been in love with the cinema,” he later recalled. At the age of 17 he left school in his hometown and went to Rome to study at a film school. During this relatively short time, however, he took any job that had something to do with the cinema. Even as an actor, he was engaged several times. He became a film producer as early as 1939, but the Second World War slowed him down in his urge to pursue a film career. As a soldier in the Italian Army, he had to go to the front. But when he returned from this confusion, he founded his own production company for films in 1946. The first film he made was " Bitter Rice " with the director Giuseppe De Santis (1917–1997) and with the actress Silvana Mangano (1930–1989) in the lead role. It hit theaters in 1949 and was fateful for its further development. Because the film turned out to be a classic of Italian neorealism and De Laurentiis married Silvana in July of the same year.
In total, Dino De Laurentiis was married twice. His first wife, until her death in December 1989, was the actress Silvana Mangano De Laurentiis'. The marriage had four children; three daughters and one son. The eldest daughter Veronica De Laurentiis (* 1950) is now an actress; Raffaella De Laurentiis (* 1954) became a film producer like her father; Francesca De Laurentiis (* 1961) also works as a filmmaker. Her son Federico De Laurentiis, who also worked as a film producer, died in a plane crash in 1981 at the age of 26.
In April 1990 Dino De Laurentiis married for the second time, the film producer Martha Schumacher . With her he had two daughters Carolyna De Laurentiis (* 1988) and Dina De Laurentiis (* 1990), who work as actresses.
His nephew, Aurelio De Laurentiis, is a film producer and now president of the SSC Napoli football club .
Career
After this first film success, Dino De Laurentiis worked very closely with Carlo Ponti , the most successful Italian film producer, in the 1950s . In 1952 they brought the film “Europa 1951” with Ingrid Bergman to the screen. Then they produced “La Strada” with Federico Fellini , which won an Oscar. Shortly afterwards in 1954 the epic “The Voyage of Odysseus”. And then in 1956 "War and Peace" came to the cinemas with a strong international cast. But when he then founded the film studio "Dinocitta" the thread of success broke. That didn't work and he himself realized that this step was a mistake.
Then Dino De Laurentiis went to the USA despite poor knowledge of English and almost started all over again. But he was not deterred by the difficulties of the first steps. The road to success began to reopen with the police film "Serpico" in 1973, music by Mikis Theodorakis and Al Pacino in the lead role. This was followed by Sydney Pollack's “The Three Days of the Condors” in 1975 with Robert Redford and in 1977 “The Snake Egg” with Ingmar Bergman as director and the Swede Liv Ullmann as actress. When "Conan the Barbarian" was released in 1982, this film was also the starting point for the long career of the Austrian Arnold Schwarzenegger . In total there have been more than 150 films that make up Dino de Laurentiis' life's work. For this he received the Irving Thalberg Award in 2001 for his life's work and in 2003 the Venice Film Festival honored him in a special way.
In 2004 he founded CLA Studios in Ouarzazate , Morocco , together with Cinecittà and Sanam Holding as a joint venture .
Dino De Laurentiis died at the age of 91 on November 10, 2010 in Beverly Hills.
Filmography (selection)
actor
- 1939: Alarm in the department store (I grandi magazzini) - directed by Mario Camerini
- 1940: Women's Darling (Boccaccio) - Director: Marcello Albani
Unit manager
- 1942: Malombra - directed by Mario Soldati
- 1944: Zazà - Director: Renato Castellani
- 1945: Le miserie del Signor Travet - Director: Mario Soldati
producer
- 1946: Black Eagle (Aquila Nera)
- 1946: The Bandit (Il bandito)
- 1947: Uprising in Siberia (La figlia del capitano)
- 1948: Street dreams (Molti sogni per le strade)
- 1946: The mysterious Chevalier (Il cavaliere misterioso)
- 1949: bitter rice (Riso amaro)
- 1949: The Wolf of the Sila Mountains (Il lupo della Sila)
- 1950: Fair game (Il brigante Musolino)
- 1951: Totò and the third man (Totò terzo uomo)
- 1951: Eroticism (L'ultimo incontro)
- 1951: robbers and gendarmes (Guardie e ladri)
- 1951: Anna
- 1952: Lucrezia the Red Corsair (Jolanda la figlia del corsaro nero)
- 1952: Trafficking in girls (La tratta delle bianche)
- 1952: Totò and the women (Totò e le donne)
- 1952: The Three Corsairs (I tre corsari)
- 1953: The Seven of the Big Bear (I sette dell'Orsa maggiore)
- 1953: Infidelity (Le infedeli)
- 1953: The she-wolf of Calabria (La lupa)
- 1954: where is the freedom? (Dov'è la libertà ...?)
- 1954: The sold innocence (Miseria e nobiltà)
- 1954: La Strada - The Song of the Street (La Strada)
- 1954: The joyless street (La romana)
- 1954: An American in Rome (Un americano a Roma)
- 1954: Attila, the Scourge of God (Attila)
- 1954: The Gold of Naples (L'oro di Napoli)
- 1954: Torpedo men attack (Siluri umani)
- 1955: Father, we want to get married (Ragazze d'oggi)
- 1956: War and Peace (War and Peace)
- 1957: The nights of Cabiria (Le notti di Cabiria)
- 1958: Storm in the East (La tempesta)
- 1959: It was called the great war (La grande guerra)
- 1960: Under ten flags (Sotto dieci bandiere)
- 1960: The way back (Tutti a casa)
- 1960: The Hunchback of Rome (Il gobbo)
- 1961: The Last Judgment does not take place (Il giudizio universale)
- 1961: The corpse is in the wrong suitcase (Crimen)
- 1961: Barabbas (Barabba)
- 1963: Amore in Stockholm (Il diavolo)
- 1964: A corpse for the lady (Cadavere per signora)
- 1965: The tiger perfumes himself with dynamite (Le tigre se parfume à la dynamite)
- 1966: Bounty: One Dollar (Navajo Joe)
- 1966: The Bible (The Bible: In the Beginning ...)
- 1966: Our man in Rio (Se tutte le donne del mondo)
- 1967: The Stranger (Lo straniero)
- 1968: The Bandits of Milan (Banditi a Milano)
- 1968: Barbarella
- 1968: Battle of Anzio (Lo sbarco di Anzio)
- 1969: Miss Doctor
- 1969: The blue-eyed bandit (Barbagia (La società del malessere))
- 1969: Telephone number Copenhagen Sex Sex Sex (Il primo premio si chiama Irene)
- 1970: The Lonely One from the West (Sledge)
- 1970: Waterloo
- 1970: The Hellhounds (La spina dorsale del diavolo)
- 1972: Violence - the fifth power in the state (La violenza: quinto potere)
- 1972: The most beautiful soirée of my life (La più bella serata della mia vita)
- 1973: Serpico
- 1973: Wild horses (Valdez il mezzosangue)
- 1974: A Man Sees Red (Death Wish)
- 1974: The unbelievable adventures of the Italians in Russia (Una matta, matta, matta corsa in Russia)
- 1974: Two missionaries (Porgi l'altra guancia)
- 1975: Three Days of the Condor (Three Days of the Condor)
- 1976: The slave hell of the Mandingos (Drum)
- 1976: A woman sees red (lipstick)
- 1976: King Kong
- 1977: The White Buffalo (The White Buffalo)
- 1977: Orca - The Killer Whale (Orca)
- 1977: The snake egg together with Horst Wendland
- 1978: The Brink's Job (The Brink's Job)
- 1978: King of the Gypsies (King of the Gypsies)
- 1979: The First Great Train Robbery (The First Great Train Robbery)
- 1980: Flash Gordon
- 1981: Ragtime
- 1982: Conan the Barbarian (Conan the Barbarian)
- 1983: Dead Zone - The Assassin
- 1984: The Bounty (The Bounty)
- 1984: The Desert Planet (Dune)
- 1984: The Firestarter
- 1985: Year of the Dragon (Year of the Dragon)
- 1985: Cat's Eye (cat's eye)
- 1985: The Werewolf of Tarker Mills (Silver Bullet)
- 1986: Rhea M - It started without warning (Maximum Overdrive)
- 1986: The City Hai (Raw Deal)
- 1986: Blue Velvet
- 1986: King Kong Lives (King Kong Lives)
- 1986: Blood Moon (Manhunter)
- 1990: Desperate Hours for 24 hours
- 1991: Sometimes They Come Back
- 1992: There was a murder (Once Upon a Crime)
- 1992: Army of Darkness (Army of Darkness)
- 1993: Body of Evidence
- 1995: Assassins - The Killer (Assassins)
- 1996: Unforgettable
- 1997: breakdown
- 2000: U-571
- 2001: Hannibal
- 2002: Red Dragon (Red Dragon)
- 2007: Hannibal Rising - How it all began (Hannibal Rising)
- 2007: The Last Legion (The Last Legion)
- 2007: Virgin Territory
Awards
De Laurentiis received the David di Donatello five times for his films. He received the award for his life's work at the International Film Festival in Venice and in 2000 the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award as part of the Oscar -Verleihung. He also won an Oscar as a producer for Federico Fellini's La Strada - The Song of the Street .
literature
- Tullio Kezich and Alessandra Levantesi: Dino. The Life and Films of Dino De Laurentiis . Miramax Books, New York 2004, ISBN 0-7868-6902-X
Web links
- Literature by and about Dino De Laurentiis in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dino De Laurentiis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dino De Laurentiis in the nndb (English)
- “Heart, brain and eggs” Interview with Martin Wolf on Spiegel Online , August 27, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filmmaker Dino De Laurentiis Dies at Age 91 . In: USA Today .
- ↑ S.Vahabzadeh, 150 films and an error, Süddeutsche Zeitung of 11 November 2010
- ↑ Magdi Aboul-Kheir, Also Flops for Eternity, Südwestpresse from November 12, 2010, in www.neckar-chronick.de
- ↑ sha (DPA) Oscar winner Dino De Laurentiis is dead, Spiegel from November 11, 2010
personal data | |
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SURNAME | De Laurentiis, Dino |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laurentiis, Agostino de |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film producer |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1919 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Torre Annunziata |
DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 2010 |
Place of death | Los Angeles , California |