Dino De Laurentiis, producer of some of Italy’s best-known films including works by Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini, has died in Los Angeles aged 91, Italian media reported on Thursday. De Laurentiis, who was born on August 8, 1919 in Torre Annunziata near Naples, also produced several well-known films in the United States including Three Days of the Condor with Robert Redford after he moved there in the 1970s. He also produced many flops, including Orca (trailer above) and King Kong. He started out in film aged 20 and became one of the leading producers of Italy’s post-war cinema boom and the famous neo-realist genre. One of the films he produced was “Riso Amaro” (“Bitter Rice”) by Giuseppe De Santis, a 1949 classic seen as one of the finest examples of neo-realism.