Carlo Ponti Carlo Ponti ( born December 11 , 1912 , Magenta , Italy ) is an Italian film producer . Beginning in 1941 , he has produced over 140 movies , among them films by Federico Fellini ( La Strada , 1954 ) , Vittorio de Sica ( Boccaccio '70 , 1962 ) , David Lean ( Doctor Zhivago , 1965 ) , and Michelangelo Antonioni ( Blowup , 1966 ) . Ponti 's second wife is Sophia Loren . He is the father of Carlo Ponti , Jr. , a former child actor who is now a music conductor . Currently , Carlo Ponti , Jr. is the music director of the San Bernardino Symphony . His other sons are Alessandro Ponti , a film producer , and Edoardo Ponti , a film director . Ponti studied law at the University of Milan .  This article about a film producer is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . Categories : Film producer stubs | 1912 births | Italian film producers | Living people | Natives of Lombardy In other languages : Deutsch | Български | Français | Italiano | Magyar | Polski | Svenska 