The long lived (b. 1912) and prolific producer's death was reported by his family today.A silent partner on the international coproduction deal which financed Jess Franco's VENUS IN FURS (the party scene was filmed in one of his villas) Ponti produced over 150 films since the 1940s directed by such cinema luminaries as Vittorio De Sica, Antonioni (BLOW UP), Fellini (LA STRADA), David Lean (DR. ZHIVAGO), Godard and many others.
He will probably be most remembered as the man who discovered and married Sophia Loren.
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