Dino De Laurentiis Biography (1919?-)

Original name, Agostino De Laurentiis; born August 8, 1919 (some sources cite1918), in Torre Annunziata, Italy; immigrated to the United States, c. 1970(some sources cite 1973); son of Rosario Aurelio (a pasta manufacturer) and Giuseppina (maiden name, Salvatore) De Laurentiis; brother of Luigi De Laurentiis (a producer); married Silvana Mangano (an actress), July 17, 1949 (marriage ended); married Martha Schumacher (a producer), April 7, 1990; children: (first marriage) Federico (died, 1981), Veronica, Raffaella (a producer), Francesca; (second marriage) Carolyna, Dina; uncle of Aurelio De Laurentiis (a producer); grandfather of Dino de Laurentiis (a filmmaker).

Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupation: Producer, studio executive
Birth Details: August 8, 1919?; Torre Annunziata, Italy

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Executive Producer
(With Carlo Ponti) La strada (also known as The Road), 1954released in the United States by Trans-Lux, 1956
(With Carlo Ponti) Un giorno in pretura, 1954 released in the United States as A Day in Court, Ultra, 1965
Maciste contre il vampiro (also known as Goliath and the Islandof Vampires, Maciste vs. the Vampire, and The Vampires), 1961 released in the United States as Goliath and the Vampires, American International Pictures, 1964
Death Wish, Paramount, 1974
Three Days of the Condor, Paramount, 1975
Lipstick, Paramount, 1976
Orca (also known as Orca--The Killer Whale and La orca), Paramount, 1977
The White Buffalo (also known as The Hunt to Kill), UnitedArtists, 1977
King of the Gypsies, Paramount, 1978
The Brink's Job, Universal, 1979
The Bounty, Paramount, 1983
The Dead Zone, Paramount, 1983
Conan the Destroyer, Universal, 1984
Dune, Universal, 1984
King Kong Lives, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1987
Executive producer, Kuffs, Universal, 1992
Army of Darkness (also known as Army of Darkness: Evil Dead 3, Army of Darkness, the Ultimate Experience in Medieval Horror, Bruce Campbell vs. Army of Darkness, Captain Supermarket, Evil Dead 3, and Medieval Dead), Universal, 1993
Assassins (also known as Day of Reckoning), Warner Bros., 1995
Producer
Troppo tardi t'ho conosciuta, [Italy], 1939
L'amore canta (also known as The Love Song), 1941
Il miserie del Signor Travet, 1942
Malombra, 1942
Margherita fra i tre, 1942
La donna della montagne, 1943
Il bandito (also known as The Bandit), 1946
Il cavaliere misterioso (also known as The Mysterious Cavalier and The Mysterious Rider), 1947
Il passatore, 1947
La figlia del capitano (also known as The Captain's Daughter), 1947
Molti sogni per le strade (also known as Woman Trouble), 1948
Riso amaro, 1948 released in the United States as Bitter Rice, Lux, 1950
Il lupo della Sila (also known as Lure of the Sila and The Wolf of the Sila), 1949
I pompieri di Viggiu, 1949
Adamo ed Eva (also known as Adam and Eve), 1950
Il brigante Musolini (also known as Outlaw Girl), 1950
Napoli milionaria (also known as Naples Millionaire and Side Street Story), 1950
Accidenti alle tasse!!, 1951
(With Carlo Ponti) Anna, IFE, 1951
Botta e risposta, 1951
Guardie e ladri (also known as Cops and Robbers), 1951
L'ultimo incontro, 1951
Romanticismo, 1951
Toto terzo uomo, 1951
Dov' e la liberta? (also known as Where Is Freedom?), 1952
Europa 51, c. 1952
Fratelli d'Italia, 1952
Gli undici moschettieri, 1952
I sette dell'orsa maggiore (also known as Hell Raiders of the Deep), 1952
I tre cosari, 1952
Jolanda, la figlia del corsaro nero, 1952
Toto a colori (also known as Toto in Color), 1952
Anni facili (also known as Easy Years), 1953
Il paese dei campanelli, 1953
La lupa (also known as The She-Wolf), 1953
La tratta delle bianche (also known as Girls Marked for Danger and The White Slave Trade), 1953
(With Carlo Ponti) Sensualita (also known as Two Nights with Cleopatra), Ultra, 1953
(With Carlo Ponti) Le infedeli, 1953 released in the United Statesas The Unfaithfuls, Allied Artists, 1960
Miseria e nobilta (also known as Poverty and Nobility), 1954
Siluri umani (also known as Human Torpedoes), 1954
La romana, 1954 released in the United States as The Woman of Rome, Distributors Corp. of America, 1956
(With Carlo Ponti) Attila (also known as Attila the Hun, Attila fleau de Dieu, and Attila, il flagello di Dio), 1954 Lux,1958
Il coraggio, 1955
La donna del fiume, 1955
Le diciottenni, 1955
Mambo, Paramount, 1955
Ragazze d'oggi, 1955
(With Carlo Ponti and William W. Schorr) Ulysses (also known as Ulisse), Paramount, 1955
(With Carlo Ponti) La bella mugnaia (also known as The Miller'sBeautiful Wife and The Miller's Wife), 1955 released in the United States by Distributors Corp. of America, 1957
L'oro di Napoli (also known as Every Day's a Holiday), 1955released in the United States as Gold of Naples, Distributors Corp. of America, 1957
Guendalina, 1956
La banda degli honesti, 1956
Toto, Peppino, e ... la malafemmina, 1956
War and Peace (also known as Guerre e pace), Paramount, 1956
Le notti di Cabiria (also known as Cabiria and Nights ofCabiria), 1956 released in the United States by Lopert, 1957
Fortunella, 1957
Malafemmina, 1957
Barrage contre le Pacifique (also known as The Sea Wall, This Angry Age, and La diga sul Pacifico), Columbia, 1958
Guardia, ladro e cameriera, 1958
La tempesta (also known as Tempest and La Tempete),Paramount, 1958
La grande guerra (also known as La grande guerre), 1959 released in the United States as The Great War, Lopert, 1961
Giovanna e le altre (also known as Five Branded Women and Jovanka e le altre), Paramount, 1960
Le pillole di Ercole (also known as Hercules' Pills), 1960
Sotto dieci bandiere (also known as Under Ten Flags), Paramount, 1960

Tutti a casa (also known as La grande pagaille), 1960 released in the United States as Everybody Go Home!, Davis-Royal Films International, 1962
Ill gobbo (also known as Le bossu de Rome), 1960 released in the United States as The Hunchback of Rome, Royal, 1963
Crimen (also known as Criminals, Killing in Monte Carlo, and Chacun son alibi), 1960 released in the United States as ... And Suddenly It's Murder!, Royal, 1964
(With Vittorio De Sica) Il giudizia universale (also known as The Last Judgment and Le jugement dernier), 1961
Una vita difficile (also known as A Difficult Life), 1961
I due nemici, 1961 released in the United States as The Best ofEnemies, Columbia, 1962
Io amo, tu ami (also known as J'aime, tu aimes), 1961 released in the United States as I Love, You Love, Davis-Royal Films International, 1962
Barabbas (also known as Barabba), Columbia, 1962
Il processo di Verona (also known as The Verona Trial), 1962
Mafioso, 1962 released in the United States by Zenith, 1964
Il boom, 1963
Il diavolo (also known as Amore in Stockholm, The Devil, and To Bed or Not to Bed), Continental Distributing, 1963
Il giovedi, 1963
Il maestro di Vigevano (also known as The Teacher from Vigevano), 1963
L'immortelle, Grove, 1963
Cadavere per signora, 1964
Crazy Desire, Embassy, 1964
Eighteen in the Sun, Goldstone, 1964
Il disco volante (also known as The Flying Saucer), Dino DeLaurentiis, 1964
La mia signora, 1964
The Fascist, Embassy, 1965
I tre volti (also known as The Three Faces and Three Faces of a Woman), Dino De Laurentiis, 1965
Le ore dell'amore (also known as The Hours of Love), CinemaV, 1965
Menage all'italiana (also known as Menage Italian Style), 1965
An Orchid for the Tiger, 1965
The Railroad Man, Continental Distributing, 1965
Thrilling, 1965
The Bible ... In the Beginning (also known as The Bible andLa Bibbia), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966
Se tutte le donne del mondo (also known as If All the Women inthe World, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die, and Operazione paradiso), 1966 released in the United States by Columbia, 1967
Le streghe (also known as Les sorcieres), 1966 released asThe Witches, Les Productions Artistes Associes, 1969
The Hills Run Red, United Artists, 1967
Lo straniero (also known as The Stranger, Amare per vivere, and L'etranger), Paramount, 1967
Matchless, United Artists, 1967
My Wife's Enemy, Magna, 1967
Navajo Joe, United Artists, 1967
Anzio (also known as The Battle for Anzio and Lo sbarcodi Anzio), Columbia, 1968
Banditi a Milano (also known as Bandits in Milan and TheViolent Four), Paramount, 1968
Barbarella (also known as Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy),Paramount, 1968
The Bride Wore Black, Lopert, 1968
Capriccio all'italiana (also known as Caprice Italian Style), 1968
Diabolik (also known as Danger: Diabolik!), Paramount, 1968
L'amante di Gramigna (also known as Lyubovnitzite na Graminya), 1968
Pierrot le fou, Pathe, 1968
Roma come Chicago (also known as Bandits in Rome, Rome Like Chicago, and The Violent Four), 1968
Romeo and Juliet, Paramount, 1968
Fraulein Doktor (also known as The Betrayal, Fraeulein Doktor, and Gospodjica Doktor-Spijunka Bez Imena), 1968 released inthe United States by Paramount, 1969
Barbagia (also known as The Tough and the Mighty and Lasocieta del malessere), 1969
The Brain, Paramount, 1969
Io non scappo ... fuggo, 1969
Monte Carlo or Bust!, 1969
Napravleniye glavnogo udara (also known as The Direction of theMain Blow), 1969
Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies, Paramount, 1969
Una breve stagione (also known as A Brief Season), 1969
La spina dorsale del diavolo (also known as The Deserter, The Devil's Backbone, and Djavolja kicma), Paramount, 1970
A Man Called Sledge, Columbia, 1970
Waterloo, Paramount, 1970
Causa di divorzio (also known as Cause of Divorce), 1972
Lo scopone scientifico (also known as The Scientific Card Player), 1972
The Valachi Papers (also known as Joe Valachi, CarteggioValachi, Cosa Nostra, I segreti di Cosa Nostra, Joe Valachi: I segreti Cosa Nostra, and Le dossier Valachi), Columbia, 1972
The Stone Killer, Columbia, 1973
Valdez, il mezzosangue (also known as Valdez the Halfbreed, The Valdez Horses, Wild Horses, Caballos salvajes, andChino), 1973
Crazy Joe, Columbia, 1974
Porgi l'altra guancia (also known as Don't Turn the Other Cheek, Turn the Other Cheek, The Two Missionaries, I due missionari, and Les deux missionaires), Titanus, 1974
Serpico, Paramount, 1974
Uomini duri (also known as Three Tough Guys, Tough Guys, and Les durs), Paramount, 1974
Mandingo, 1975
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, United Artists, 1976
Casanova (also known as Fellini's Casanova and Il Casanova di Federico Fellini), Universal, 1976
Drum, United Artists, 1976
Face to Face (also known as Ansikte mot ansikte), Paramount, 1976
King Kong, Paramount, 1976
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony, Aquarius, 1976
The Shootist, Paramount, 1976
Das Schlangenei (also known as The Serpent's Egg), Paramount, 1977
The Great Train Robbery, United Artists, 1979
Hurricane (also known as Forbidden Paradise), Paramount, 1979
Flash Gordon, Universal, 1980
Halloween II, Universal, 1981
Ragtime, Paramount, 1981
Amityville II: The Possession, Orion, 1982
Conan the Barbarian, Universal, 1982
Striking Back, 1982
Amityville 3-D, Orion, 1983
Firestarter, Universal, 1984
Cat's Eye (also known as Stephen King's Cat's Eye), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1985
Marie, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1985
Red Sonja, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1985
Stephen King's Silver Bullet (also known as Silver Bullet),Paramount, 1985
Year of the Dragon, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1985
Blue Velvet, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1986
Crimes of the Heart, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1986
Manhunter (also known as Red Dragon: The Pursuit of Hannibal Lecter), De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1986
Maximum Overdrive, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1986
Raw Deal, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1986
Tai-Pan, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1986
Trick or Treat, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1986
The Bedroom Window, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1987
Date with an Angel, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1987
From the Hip, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1987
Hiding Out (also known as Adult Education), De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1987
Million Dollar Mystery, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1987
Rampage, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1987
Collision Course, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1988
Pumpkinhead, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1988
Traxx (also known as Trax), De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1988
Weeds, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1988
Desperate Hours, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1990
Once upon a Crime (also known as Criminals, Over My DeadBody, Returning Napoleon, and Troublemakers), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1992
Body of Evidence (also known as Deadly Evidence), Dino De Laurentiis Communications, 1993
Bound, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1996
Unforgettable, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1996
Breakdown, Paramount, 1997
U-571, Universal, 2000
Hannibal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 2001
Film Appearances
"Prefazione," a segment of I tre volti (also known as The ThreeFaces and Three Faces of a Woman), Dino De Laurentiis, 1965
Television Work
Producer; Miniseries
L'odissea (also known as The Adventures of Ulysses, DieOdyssee, and Le avventure di Ullisse), 1969
Noble House, NBC, 1987
Executive Producer; Movies
Dracula's Widow, HBO, 1988
Stephen King's Sometimes They Come Back (also known as Sometimes They Come Back), CBS, 1991
Slave of Dreams, Showtime, 1995
Solomon and Sheba, Showtime, 1995
Television Appearances
Episodic
"Sophia Loren: Actress Italian Style," Biography, Arts and Entertainment, 1999

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

Business Week, March 13, 1989
Forbes, March 7, 1988
Los Angeles Times, January 23, 2001
Variety, February 24, 1988 March 21, 1990 August 28, 2000, p. F22

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