**Agostino De Laurentiis**, usually credited as **Dino De Laurentiis** (8 August 1919 – 10 November 2010), was an Italian Academy Award-winning movie producer.

Early life
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He was born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples. He grew up selling spaghetti produced by his father. He studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. His studies were interrupted by the Second World War.

Career
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His first movie was *L'ultimo Combattimento* in 1940. He has produced nearly 150 movies. In 1946 his company, the Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica, moved into movie production. In the early years, De Laurentiis produced neorealist films such as *Bitter Rice* (1946) and the Fellini classics *La Strada* (1954) and *Nights of Cabiria* (1956). Neorealist is a style about the poor and working class. In the 1960s, De Laurentiis built his own studio facilities. During this period, De Laurentiis produced such films as *Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die*, *Navajo Joe* (1966), and *Barbarella* (1968).

In the 1970s, De Laurentiis moved to the US. He created his own studio, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG), based in Wilmington, North Carolina. During this period De Laurentiis made a number of successful and acclaimed movies, including *Serpico* (1973), *Death Wish* (1974), *Mandingo* (1975), *Three Days of the Condor* (1975), *The Shootist* (1976), Ingmar Bergman's *The Serpent's Egg* (1977), *Ragtime* (1981), *Conan the Barbarian* (1982) and *Blue Velvet* (1986). 

It is for his more infamous productions that De Laurentiis's name has become known: The *King Kong* (1976) remake, which was a commercial hit, *Lipstick*, the killer whale movie *Orca* (1977); *The White Buffalo* (1977); the disaster movie *Hurricane* (1979); the remake of *Flash Gordon* (1980); *Halloween II* (the 1981 sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 classic horror movie); David Lynch's *Dune* (1984); and *King Kong Lives* (1986). De Laurentiis also made several adaptations of Stephen King's works during this time, including *The Dead Zone* (1983), *Cat's Eye* (1985), *Silver Bullet* (1985) and *Maximum Overdrive* (1986); *Army of Darkness* (1992) was produced jointly by De Laurentiis, Robert Tapert and the movie's star Bruce Campbell. 

De Laurentiis also produced the first Hannibal Lecter movie *Manhunter* (1986), *Hannibal* (2001) and *Red Dragon* (2002), a remake of *Manhunter*. He also produced *Hannibal Rising* (2007).

Awards
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In 2001 he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Death
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Laurentiis died on 10 November 2010 at his residence in Beverly Hills, California.

Personal life
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He had four children with his first wife, actress Silvana Mangano, who died in 1989. He later married movie producer Martha Schumacher with whom he had two daughters. One of the children from his first marriage, Raffaella De Laurentiis, is also a producer; another, Federico De Laurentiis (28 February 1955 – 15 July 1981), died at 26 in an airplane crash. His granddaughter is Giada De Laurentiis, host of *Everyday Italian*, *Behind the Bash*, *Giada at Home* and *Giada's Weekend Getaways* on Food Network. His nephew is Aurelio De Laurentiis, a film producer and the chairman of SSC Napoli football club.

Filmography
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Selected filmography from 1965 to the present.

| Year | Title | Director |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1965 | *Battle of the Bulge* | Ken Annakin |
| 1968 | *Danger: Diabolik* | Mario Bava |
| *Barbarella* | Roger Vadim |
| 1973 | *Serpico* | Sidney Lumet |
| 1974 | *Death Wish* | Michael Winner |
| 1976 | *King Kong* | John Guillermin |
| 1980 | *Flash Gordon* | Mike Hodges |
| 1981 | *Halloween II* | Rick Rosenthal |
| *Ragtime* | Miloš Forman |
| 1982 | *Fighting Back* | Lewis Teague |
| *Conan the Barbarian* | John Milius |
| *Amityville II: The Possession* | Damiano Damiani |
| 1983 | *Amityville 3-D* | Richard Fleischer |
| *Halloween III: Season of the Witch* | Tommy Lee Wallace |
| *Dead Zone* | David Cronenberg |
| 1984 | *Yado* | Richard Fleischer |
| *Conan the Destroyer* | Richard Fleischer |
| *Firestarter* | Mark L. Lester |
| *Dune* | David Lynch |
| *The Bounty* | Roger Donaldson |
| 1985 | *Maximum Overdrive* | Stephen King |
| *Raw Deal* | John Irvin |
| *Marie* | Roger Donaldson |
| *Silver Bullet* | Daniel Attias |
| *Cat's Eye* | Lewis Teague |
| *Year of the Dragon* | Michael Cimino |
| *Red Sonja* | Richard Fleischer |
| 1986 | *Crimes of the Heart* | Bruce Beresford |
| *Blue Velvet* | David Lynch |
| *Tai-Pan* | Daryl Duke |
| *Manhunter* | Michael Mann |
| *King Kong Lives* | John Guillermin |
| 1987 | *Hiding Out* | Bob Giraldi |
| *Evil Dead 2* | Sam Raimi |
| *The Bedroom Window* | Curtis Hanson |
| 1989 | *Collision Course* | Lewis Teague |
| *From the Hip* | Bob Clark |
| 1990 | *Sometimes They Come Back* | Tom McLoughlin |
| *Desperate Hours* | Michael Cimino |
| 1992 | *Once Upon a Crime* | Eugene Levy |
| *Kuffs* | Bruce A. Evans |
| 1993 | *Body of Evidence* | Uli Edel |
| *Army of Darkness* | Sam Raimi |
| 1994 | *Temptation* | Strathford Hamilton |
| 1995 | *Solomon & Sheba* | Robert Young |
| *Slave of Dreams* | Robert Young |
| *Rumpelstiltskin* | Mark Jones (I) |
| *Assassins* | Richard Donner |
| 1996 | *Unforgettable* | John Dahl |
| *Bound* | Larry and Andy Wachowski |
| 1997 | *Breakdown* | Jonathan Mostow |
| 2000 | *U-571* | Jonathan Mostow |
| 2001 | *Hannibal* | Ridley Scott |
| 2002 | *Red Dragon* | Brett Ratner |
| 2006 | *Hannibal Rising* | Peter Webber |
| *The Last Legion* | Doug Lefler |
| 2007 | *Virgin Territory* | David Leland |

Other websites
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to ***Dino De Laurentiis***.

* Dino De Laurentiis Company Archived 2019-10-20 at the Wayback Machine Official site
* Dino De Laurentiis on IMDb

  


| Persondata |
| --- |
| Name | Laurentiis, Dino De |
| Alternative names | Laurentiis, Agostino De |
| Short description | Italian Academy Award-winning movie producer |
| Date of birth | 1919-8-8 |
| Place of birth | Torre Annunziata, Campania, Italy |
| Date of death | 2010-11-10 |
| Place of death | Beverly Hills, California, United States |