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Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio De Sica

DirectingBorn July 7, 1901Died November 13, 1974 (age 73)Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy

Biography

Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves (honorary), while Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and Il giardino dei Finzi Contini won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Indeed, the great critical success of Sciuscià (the first foreign film to be so recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and Bicycle Thieves helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Award. These two films are considered part of the canon of classic cinema. Bicycle Thieves was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history. De Sica was also nominated for the 1957 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop. De Sica's acting was considered the highlight of the film.

Filmography

2026
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life

as Self (Archive Footage)

Movie
2022
The Garden That Doesn't Exist

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2021
We Are Cinema

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2021Movie
2019
Sophia Loren, a special destiny

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2010
1960

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2009
Vittorio D.

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2007
Working with De Sica

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2005
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2003
Cesare Zavattini

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2001
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
1980
My Name Is Anna Magnani

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
1975Movie
1974
We All Loved Each Other So Much

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie
1974
Blood for Dracula

as Marquis Di Fiore

Movie
1973
The Assassination of Matteotti

as Mauro Del Giudice

Movie
1973
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli

as Maresciallo Cenciarelli

Movie
1973
The Small Miracle

as Father Damico

Movie
1972Movie
1972
Scandal Man

as Milord

Movie
1972
Snow Job

as Enrico Dolphi

Movie
1972Movie
1971
We Are All in Temporary Liberty

as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'

Movie
1971
Trastevere

as Enrico Formichi

Movie
1971Movie
1971
Mafia Things

as Don Michele

Movie
1971TV
1969
Twelve Plus One

as Di Seta

Movie
1968
The Shoes of the Fisherman

as Cardinal Rinaldi

Movie
1968
Dear Caroline

as Le comte de Bièvre

Movie
1968Movie
1967
An Italian in America

as Lando Marossi

Movie
1967Movie
1967
Lionpower from MGM

as Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie
1966Movie
1966
After the Fox

as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)

Movie
1966Movie
1966
Me, Me, Me... and the Others

as Commendator Trepossi

Movie
1964Movie
1962
Eva

as (uncredited)

Movie
1962
Lafayette

as Bancroft

Movie
1961
The Two Marshals

as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone

Movie
1961
The Orderly

as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi

Movie
1961Movie
1961
The Last Judgment

as Defense lawyer

Movie
1961Movie
1961
The Honored Society

as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'

Movie
1960
Love in Rome

as le réalisateur

Movie
1960Movie
1960Movie
1960
Le pillole di Ercole

as Colonel Piero Cuocolo

Movie
1960
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel

as Colonel Belalcazar

Movie
1960
It Started in Naples

as Mario Vitale

Movie
1960
The Battle of Austerlitz

as le pape Pie VII

Movie
1960
The Angel Wore Red

as General Clave

Movie
1960
Gastone

as The Prince

Movie
1959Movie
1959
General Della Rovere

as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'

Movie
1959
The Four Just Men

as Ricco Poccari

TV
1959
The Moralist

as O.I.M.P. President

Movie
1959
Il mondo dei miracoli

as Director Pietro Giordani

Movie
1959
Winter Holidays

as Maurizio

Movie
1959
Men and Noblemen

as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola

Movie
1959
My Wife's Enemy

as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni

Movie
1959
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)

Movie
1959Movie
1959Movie
1958Movie
1958Movie
1958
The Inveterate Bachelor

as Il professore

Movie
1958
Cannon Serenade

as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän

Movie
1958
Fast and Sexy

as Don Luigi

Movie
1958
Domenica è sempre domenica

as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi

Movie
1958
Love and Chatter

as Avvocato Bonelli

Movie
1957
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti

Movie
1957
Holiday Island

as Engineer Occhipinti

Movie
1957
A Farewell to Arms

as Major Rinaldi

Movie
1957
Doctor and the Healer

as Antonio Locoratolo

Movie
1957Movie
1957
Paris Casino

as Alexander Gordy

Movie
1957
Il conte Max

as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo

Movie
1957Movie
1957
The Guilty

as Giorgio Vasari

Movie
1957
Fathers and Sons

as Vincenzo Corallo

Movie
1956
Noi siamo le colonne

as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato

Movie
1956
The Monte Carlo Story

as Count Dino della Fiaba

Movie
1956
Time of Vacation

as Aristide Rossi

Movie
1956Movie
1956
The Bigamist

as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince

Movie
1956TV
1955
Scandal in Sorrento

as Maresciallo Carotenuto

Movie
1955
Roman Tales

as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer

Movie
1955
The Miller's Beautiful Wife

as Don Teofilo - governatore

Movie
1955
It Happens in Roma

as Carlo Reani

Movie
1955
The Sign of Venus

as Alessio Spano

Movie
1954
Too Bad She's Bad

as Vittorio Stroppiani

Movie
1954
Frisky

as Maresciallo Carotenuto

Movie
1954Movie
1954
The Gold of Naples

as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")

Movie
1954
Modern Virgin

as Antonio Valli

Movie
1954
The Secrets of the Bed

as Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")

Movie
1954
The Anatomy of Love

as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio

Movie
1954
Gran varietà

as Veneziani

Movie
1954
100 Years of Love

as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")

Movie
1954
Il matrimonio

as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov

Movie
1953
Bread, Love and Dreams

as Maresciallo Carotenuto

Movie
1953
It Happened in the Park

as Arturo Cavazzuti (segment "Incidente a Villa Borghese")

Movie
1953
The Earrings of Madame de...

as Baron Fabrizio Donati

Movie
1952
Times Gone By

as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")

Movie
1952
Hello Elephant

as Carlo Caretti

Movie
1951
Position Wanted

as Leonardo Leonardi

Movie
1950
Tomorrow Is Too Late

as Professor Landi

Movie
1948
Heart

as Master Perboni

Movie
1948Movie
1947
Christmas at Camp 119

as Don Vicenzino

Movie
1947Movie
1946
Peddlin' in Society

as Il conte Ghirani

Movie
1946
Rome: Free City

as Il signore distinto

Movie
1946
Il mondo vuole così

as Paolo Morelli

Movie
1945Movie
1945Movie
1943Movie
1942
La guardia del corpo

as Riccardo, investigatore privato

Movie
1942Movie
1942
If I Was Honest

as Pietro Kovach

Movie
1941
Teresa Venerdì

as Dott. Pietro Vignali

Movie
1941Movie
1940
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct

as Alfredo Hartman

Movie
1940
Red Roses

as Alberto Verani

Movie
1940
Pazza di gioia

as Conte Corrado Valli

Movie
1940
Manon Lescaut

as Renato Des Grieux

Movie
1940
The Sinner

as Pietro Bandelli

Movie
1939
It Always Ends That Way

as Alberto Milnar

Movie
1939
Department Store

as Bruno Zacchi

Movie
1939
Castles in the Air

as Riccardo Pietramola

Movie
1939Movie
1938
Le due madri

as Salvatore

Movie
1938
Hanno rapito un uomo

as L'attore cinematografico

Movie
1938
La mazurka di papà

as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro

Movie
1938
Napoli d'altri tempi

as Mario Esposito

Movie
1937
Mister Max

as Gianni / Max Varaldo

Movie
1937
The Man Who Smiles

as Pio Fardella

Movie
1937
Questi ragazzi

as Vincenzo

Movie
1936
But It's Nothing Serious

as Memmo Speranza

Movie
1936
I Don't Know You Anymore

as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli

Movie
1936
Lohengrin

as Alfredo

Movie
1935
Amo te sola

as Giovanni

Movie
1935Movie
1934
Full Speed

as Il professore Giacomo Banti

Movie
1934
La canzone del sole

as Paladino, l'avvocato

Movie
1933
Das Lied der Sonne

as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino

Movie
1933
Lisetta

as Fritz Peters

Movie
1933Movie
1932Movie
1932
Two Happy Hearts

as Mr. Brown

Movie
1932
The Old Lady

as Fine dicitore

Movie
1928
La compagnia dei matti

as Prof. Rosolillo

Movie
1917
The Clemenceau Affair

as Pierre Clémenceau bambino

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentDirecting
BirthdayJuly 7, 1901
Day of DeathNovember 13, 1974
Place of BirthSora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
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