Agostino De Laurentiis, usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis (born August 8, 1919), is an Italian Academy Award-winning movie producer.
He was born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples, and grew up selling spaghetti produced by his father. A study at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome was interrupted by the Second World War.
Since his first movie, L'ultimo Combattimento, (1940) he has produced nearly 150 movies. In 1946 ...
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Agostino De Laurentiis, usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis (born August 8, 1919), is an Italian Academy Award-winning movie producer.
He was born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples, and grew up selling spaghetti produced by his father. A study at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome was interrupted by the Second World War.
Since his first movie, L'ultimo Combattimento, (1940) he has produced nearly 150 movies. In 1946 his company, the Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica moved into production. In the early years De Laurentiis produced neoclassical art films as Bitter Rice (1946) and the Fellini classics La Strada (1954) Nights of Cabiria (1956), often in collaboration with producer Carlo Ponti. In the 1960s, Dino De Laurentiis built his own studio facilities, although these financially collapsed during the 1970s. During this period though, De Laurentiis produced such films as Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die, an imitation James Bond film, Navajo Joe (1966), a...
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