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