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