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Name
Vittorio De Sica

Known For
Directing

Birthday
1901-07-07

Deathday
1974-11-13 (73 years old)

Place of Birth
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.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1969 Twelve Plus One as Di Seta
1960 The Millionairess as Joe
2007 Working with De Sica as Self (archive footage)
1967 Cinéma et Réalité as Self
1969 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium as Shoemaker
1953 The Earrings of Madame de... as Baron Fabrizio Donati
1974 Blood for Dracula as Marquis Di Fiore
2019 Sophia Loren, a special destiny as Self (archive footage)
2004 How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio as (archive footage)
1960 The Traffic Policeman as Il sindaco
1941 Teresa Venerdì as Dott. Pietro Vignali
1972 Snow Job as Enrico Dolphi
1957 Il conte Max as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
1940 Maddalena, Zero for Conduct as Alfredo Hartman
1958 Bread, Love and Andalucia as Tonino
1960 It Started in Naples as Mario Vitale
1932 What Scoundrels Men Are! as Bruno
1954 Too Bad She's Bad as Vittorio Stroppiani
1973 The Assassination of Matteotti as Mauro Del Giudice
1935 I Love You Only as Giovanni
1968 The Shoes of the Fisherman as Cardinal Rinaldi
1957 Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
1952 Times Gone By as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
2010 1960 as Self (archive footage)
1957 A Farewell to Arms as Major Rinaldi
1960 Austerlitz as le pape Pie VII
1955 The Miller's Beautiful Wife as Don Teofilo - governatore
1956 Nero's Mistress as Seneca
1959 The Moralist as O.I.M.P. President
1939 Castles in the Air as Riccardo Pietramola
1954 Gran varietà as Veneziani
1958 Domenica è sempre domenica as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
1946 Peddlin' in Society as Il conte Ghirani
1939 Napoli che non muore
1954 The Gold of Naples as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
1955 Scandal in Sorrento as Maresciallo Carotenuto
1953 Bread, Love and Dreams as Maresciallo Carotenuto
1955 The Sign of Venus as Alessio Spano
1960 Love in Rome as le réalisateur
1951 Position Wanted as Leonardo Leonardi
1961 The Two Marshals as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
1954 Frisky as Maresciallo Carotenuto
1959 Ferdinand I King of Naples as Seccano
1961 The Last Judgment as Defense lawyer
1937 Mister Max as Gianni / Max Varaldo
1966 Me, Me, Me... and the Others as Commendator Trepossi
1954 The Anatomy of Love as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
1959 Winter Holidays as Maurizio
1968 The Biggest Bundle of Them All as Cesare Celli
1956 The Monte Carlo Story as Count Dino della Fiaba
1954 The Secrets of the Bed as Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")
1960 The Angel Wore Red as General Clave
1967 An Italian in America as Lando Marossi
1943 Our Dreams as Leo
1934 Full Speed as Il professore Giacomo Banti
1947 Lost in the Dark as Carmine
1957 Doctor and the Healer as Antonio Locoratolo
1964 Sophia Loren in Rome as Self
1933 Lisetta as Fritz Peters
1957 Fathers and Sons as Vincenzo Corallo
1938 Hanno rapito un uomo as L'attore cinematografico
1936 But It's Nothing Serious as Memmo Speranza
1954 100 Years of Love as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
1957 Holiday Island as Engineer Occhipinti
1957 Paris Casino as Alexander Gordy
1956 Noi siamo le colonne as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
1958 Cannon Serenade as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
1940 Red Roses as Alberto Verani
1942 A Garibaldian in the Convent as Nino Bixio
1933 Un cattivo soggetto as Willy
1939 Ai vostri ordini, signora... as Pietro Haguet
1935 I'll Give a Million as Gold
1971 Mafia Things as Don Michele
1927 La bellezza del mondo
1932 Two Happy Hearts as Mr. Brown
1932 The Secretary for Everyone
1932 The Old Lady as Fine dicitore
1939 Department Store as Bruno Zacchi
1957 The Woman Who Came from the Sea as Console Bordogin
1941 The Adventuress from the Floor Above as Fabrizio Marchini
2009 Vittorio D. as Self (archive footage)
1952 Hello Elephant as Carlo Caretti
1972 Hector the Mighty as Giove
1968 Dear Caroline as Le comte de Bièvre
1936 Lohengrin as Alfredo
1917 The Clemenceau Affair as Pierre Clémenceau bambino
1937 Questi ragazzi as Vincenzo
1956 I giorni più belli
1959 My Wife's Enemy as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
1945 No One Comes Back as Maurizio
2001 That's Life: Vittorio De Sica as Self (archive footage)
1961 The Wonders of Aladdin as Genie
1955 It Happens in Roma as Carlo Reani
1946 Il mondo vuole così as Paolo Morelli
1958 Love and Chatter as Avvocato Bonelli
1945 Lo sbaglio di essere vivo as Adriano Lari
1960 Gastone as The Prince
1961 The Orderly as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
1966 Gli altri, gli altri e noi as Retired
1959 Venetian Honeymoon as Alfredo
1957 It Happened in Rome as The Count
1957 The Guilty as Giorgio Vasari
1937 The Man Who Smiles as Pio Fardella
1942 If I Was Honest as Pietro Kovach
1956 Time of Vacation as Aristide Rossi
1975 Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca as (archive footage)
1958 Fast and Sexy as Don Luigi
2022 The Garden That Doesn't Exist as Self (archive footage)
1940 The Sinner as Pietro Bandelli
2021 Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita as Self (archive footage)
2021 We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
1961 Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! as Ambassador of Spain
1938 La mazurka di papà as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
1971 We Are All in Temporary Liberty as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
1972 Scandal Man as Milord
1948 Unknown Men of San Marino as Leo, l'ateo
1936 I Don't Know You Anymore as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
1934 La canzone del sole as Paladino, l'avvocato
1958 Angel in a Taxi
1947 Christmas at Camp 119 as Don Vicenzino
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders as der Graf
1933 Das Lied der Sonne as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
1962 Lafayette as Bancroft
1973 Storia de fratelli e de cortelli as Maresciallo Cenciarelli
1958 The Inveterate Bachelor as Il professore
1958 The Girl of San Pietro Square as Armando Conforti
1972 The Adventures of Pinocchio as giudice
1965 Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde as Self
1959 Il mondo dei miracoli as Director Pietro Giordani
1950 Tomorrow Is Too Late as Professor Landi
1948 Heart as Master Perboni
1954 Il matrimonio as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
1966 Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti as Self - Interviewee
1980 My Name Is Anna Magnani as Self (archive footage)
1961 The Honored Society as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
1954 The Cheerful Squadron as General
1985 Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema as Self
1938 The Cuckoo Clock
1959 Nel blu dipinto di blu as Spartaco
2005 Filmmakers vs. Tycoons as Self (archive footage)
1960 Le pillole di Ercole as Colonel Piero Cuocolo
1946 Rome: Free City as Il signore distinto
1940 Manon Lescaut as Renato Des Grieux
1938 Le due madri as Salvatore
1959 General Della Rovere as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
1971 Trastevere as Enrico Formichi
1960 Three Etc.'s and the Colonel as Colonel Belalcazar
1971 I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear as Player in Venice casino
1959 Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
1959 Men and Noblemen as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
1962 Eva as (uncredited)
1954 Modern Virgin as Antonio Valli
1938 Napoli d'altri tempi as Mario Esposito
1953 It Happened in the Park as Arturo Cavazzuti (segment "Incidente a Villa Borghese")
1956 The Bigamist as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
1955 Roman Tales as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
1928 La compagnia dei matti as Prof. Rosolillo
1958 Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina as Self
1939 It Always Ends That Way as Alberto Milnar
1940 Pazza di gioia as Conte Corrado Valli
2003 Cesare Zavattini as Self (archive footage)
1973 The Small Miracle as Father Damico
1974 We All Loved Each Other So Much as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1942 La guardia del corpo as Riccardo, investigatore privato
1973 Fly Girl, Fly, You've Got Music in your Veins
1967 Lionpower from MGM as Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)
1966 After the Fox as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
1962 Lykke og krone as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022 Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2026 Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life as Self (Archive Footage)
1938 Partire as Paolo Veronda

1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 0 episode )
1959 The Four Just Men ( 39 episodes ) as Ricco Poccari
1956 Cinépanorama ( 1 episode ) as Self
1972 The Adventures of Pinocchio ( 1 episode ) as Giudice
1971 Samedi soir ( 1 episode ) as Self
2025 Quelli che il cinema ( 20 episodes ) as Self

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