Federico De Laurentiis (February 28, 1955 – July 15, 1981) was an Italian film producer. The son of film producer Dino De Laurentiis, he was the executive producer of his father's produced film King Kong (1976) and he produced two films on his own: King of theGypsies (1978) and She Dances Alone (1981). In 1981, De Laurentiis was killed in the mid-air collision of two light planes while he was shooting a documentary in Alaska.
De Laurentii dated Monica Saraceni, daughter of film producer Fausto Saraceni, in the early 1970s.[2]
De Laurentiis began working with his father on film projects as a teenager. He was an assistant to the producer in the films Three Days of the Condor (1975) and Mandingo (1975). He was then the executive producer of the film King Kong (1976). He was given full reign to produce the film King of the Gypsies (1978) and he later produced She Dances Alone (1981).[3]
As a passenger aboard a Cessna 185, De Laurentiis was killed in a collision with another plane over Kvichak BayinNaknek while making a documentary on Alaska's annual fish harvest on July 15, 1981.[1] The pilots of both planes were killed as well.[4]
The film Dune (1984), which his father produced, was dedicated to him.[5]
