Sal Ponti(1935-1988)
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Sal Ponti got his start in Philadelphia as a songwriter. He wrote
Fabian's first recorded song "I'm in Love". He later moved to Hollywood
and made several acting appearances under the name Anthony Hall, the
most notable was MGM's "Atlantis: The Lost Continent." MGM let many of
their actors out of their contracts during their financial problems in
the early 1960's and Sal took various parts in TV shows like Alfred
Hitchcock Presents, I Dream of Jeannie and others. Eventually leaving
Hollywood, he started a Las Vegas-style entertainment troupe and toured
the US. In his mid-forties, he wrote a musical based on the life of the
adventurous Renaissance monk and painter, Fra Fillippo Lippi, another
musical based on Mary Magdalene and several other plays and comedy
revues. Unfortunately, lung cancer was discovered and treated, but it
eventually took his life at the age of 53 before he could realize his
dreams of producing one of his musicals on Broadway.
