Debut as film producer, "Troppo tardi t'ho conosciuta"

Breakthrough film, "Riso Amaro/Bitter Rice"; released in the USA in 1950

Co-founded (with Carlo Ponti) the Ponti-De Laurentiis Production Company in early 1950s

Enjoyed success with Fellini's "La Strada"; released in USA in 1956

Served as producer of "War and Peace"

Reunited with Fellini for "Le notti di Cabiria/Nights of Cabiria"; won Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film

Dissolved Ponti-De Laurentiis Production Company

Was producer of the Oscar-nominated foreign-language film "The Great War"

Teamed with Vitorrio De Sica as producer of "The Last Judgment"

Produced the biblical epic "Barabbas"

Was producer of Jean-Luc Godard's "Pierre le fou" and Claude Chabrol's "An Orchid for the Tiger"

Was a producer on "The Bible", directed by John Huston

Produced "The Stranger", helmed by Luchino Visconti

Served as producer on Francois Truffaut's "The Bride Wore Black" and Roger Vadim's camp classic "Barbarella"

Produced the epic "Waterloo", helmed by Sergei Bondarchuk

Moved to the USA in the early 1970s

In order to compete with Paramount's "The Godfather", produced "The Valachi Papers"

Enjoyed a critical and box-office success with "Serpico", starring Al Pacino

Was the producer of the Charles Bronson vehicle "Death Wish"

Executive produced the spy thriller "Three Days of the Condor"

Foisted "Mandigo" (1975) and its sequel "Drum" (1976) on the general public

Produced the elegiac Western "The Shootist", starring John Wayne

Proclaimed "when my monkey dies, there won't be a dry eye" regarding his remake of the 1933 classic "King Kong"

Reteamed with Fellini after 20 years on "Fellini's Casanova"

Served as producer of Ingmar Bergman's English-language feature "The Serpent's Egg"

Executive produced the "Jaws" rip-off "Orca"

Produced the screen adaptation of "King of the Gypsies"

Oversaw remake of "The Hurricane", directed by Jan Troell

Bestowed on audiences the camp classic "Flash Gordon"

Served as producer of the screen adaptation of "Ragtime", directed by Milos Foreman

Executive produced David Cronenberg's "The Dead Zone", adapted from a Stephen King novel

Founded De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) and DEG Film Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina; also served as chairman and CEO

Was executive producer of "The Bounty", a revisionist version of the story behind the mutiny on the HMS Bounty

Produced the Arnold Schwarzenneger vehicle "Conan the Destroyer"

Was an executive producer of the ill-fated adapatation of Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi novel "Dune", directed by David Lynch

Produced the Michael Cimino-directed "Year of the Dragon"

Was executive producer of "Tai Pan", adapted from a James Clavell novel

Resigned from DEG as chairman of the board and CEO and formed Dino De Laurentiis Company

Formed Dino De Laurentiis Communications (DDLC)

Produced the remake of "The Desperate Hours"

First foray into American television, producing the CBS adaptation of "Stephen King's 'Sometimes They Come Back'"

Produced the "Basic Instinct"-like melodrama "Body of Evidence", starring Madonna

Executive produced the Showtime biblical movies "Solomon and Sheba" and "Slave of Dreams"

Served as producer on the ill-titled "Unforgettable" (it wasn't)

Enjoyed a surprise hit with the taut thriller "Breakdown", directed by Jonathan Mostow

Reteamed with Mostow as director on the WWII-era thriller "U-571"

Produced "Hannibal", the long-awaited sequel to "The Silence of the Lambs"

Produced "Red Dragon," a remake of Manhunter

Produced "Hannibal Rising," which tells the story of how Hannibal becomes a serial killer