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