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