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