Personal Info
Known For:
Directing
Birthday:
July 7, 1901
Place of Birth:
Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
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Vittorio De Sica
Biography
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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | The Garden That Doesn't Exist | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | We Are Cinema | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Sophia Loren, a special destiny | Self (archive footage) |
| 2010 | 1960 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Vittorio D. | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Working with De Sica | Self (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Filmmakers vs. Tycoons | Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio | (archive footage) |
| 2003 | Cesare Zavattini | Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | That's Life: Vittorio De Sica | Self (archive footage) |
| 1985 | Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema | Self |
| 1980 | My Name Is Anna Magnani | Self (archive footage) |
| 1975 | Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca | (archive footage) |
| 1974 | Blood for Dracula | Marquis Di Fiore |
| 1974 | We All Loved Each Other So Much | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1973 | The Assassination of Matteotti | Mauro Del Giudice |
| 1973 | Storia de fratelli e de cortelli | Maresciallo Cenciarelli |
| 1973 | The Small Miracle | Father Damico |
| 1973 | Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene | |
| 1972 | Snow Job | Enrico Dolphi |
| 1972 | Hector the Mighty | Giove |
| 1972 | Scandal Man | Milord |
| 1972 | The Adventures of Pinocchio | giudice |
| 1971 | Mafia Things | Don Michele |
| 1971 | We Are All in Temporary Liberty | |
| 1971 | Trastevere | Enrico Formichi |
| 1971 | I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear | Player in Venice casino |
| 1969 | Twelve Plus One | Di Seta |
| 1969 | If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium | Shoemaker |
| 1968 | The Shoes of the Fisherman | Cardinal Rinaldi |
| 1968 | The Biggest Bundle of Them All | Cesare Celli |
| 1968 | Dear Caroline | Le comte de Bièvre |
| 1967 | Cinéma et Réalité | Self |
| 1967 | An Italian in America | Lando Marossi |
| 1966 | Me, Me, Me... and the Others | Commendator Trepossi |
| 1966 | Gli altri, gli altri e noi | Retired |
| 1966 | After the Fox | Himself |
| 1966 | Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti | Self - Interviewee |
| 1965 | The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders | der Graf |
| 1965 | Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde | Self |
| 1964 | Sophia Loren in Rome | |
| 1962 | Lafayette | Bancroft |
| 1962 | Eva | (uncredited) |
| 1961 | The Two Marshals | Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone |
| 1961 | The Last Judgment | Defense lawyer |
| 1961 | The Wonders of Aladdin | Genie |
| 1961 | The Orderly | Colonnello Filippo Bitossi |
| 1961 | Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! | Ambassador of Spain |
| 1961 | The Honored Society | Salvatore il 'Capintesta' |
| 1960 | The Millionairess | Joe |
| 1960 | The Traffic Policeman | Il sindaco |
| 1960 | It Started in Naples | Mario Vitale |
| 1960 | The Battle of Austerlitz | le pape Pie VII |
| 1960 | Love in Rome | le réalisateur |
| 1960 | The Angel Wore Red | General Clave |
| 1960 | Gastone | The Prince |
| 1960 | Le pillole di Ercole | Colonel Piero Cuocolo |
| 1960 | Three Etc.'s and the Colonel | Colonel Belalcazar |
| 1959 | The Moralist | O.I.M.P. President |
| 1959 | Ferdinand I King of Naples | Seccano |
| 1959 | Winter Holidays | Maurizio |
| 1959 | My Wife's Enemy | professor Ottavio Tornabuoni |
| 1959 | Venetian Honeymoon | Alfredo |
| 1959 | Il mondo dei miracoli | Director Pietro Giordani |
| 1959 | Nel blu dipinto di blu | Spartaco |
| 1959 | General Della Rovere | Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi' |
| 1959 | Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura | Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited) |
| 1959 | Men and Noblemen | marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola |
| 1958 | Bread, Love and Andalucia | Tonino |
| 1958 | Domenica è sempre domenica | Il 'comandante' Gastaldi |
| 1958 | Cannon Serenade | Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän |
| 1958 | Love and Chatter | Avvocato Bonelli |
| 1958 | Fast and Sexy | Don Luigi |
| 1958 | Angel in a Taxi | |
| 1958 | The Inveterate Bachelor | Il professore |
| 1958 | The Girl of San Pietro Square | Armando Conforti |
| 1958 | Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina | Self |
| 1957 | Il conte Max | Conte Max Orsini Varaldo |
| 1957 | Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor | Marchese Vittorio De Vittti |
| 1957 | A Farewell to Arms | Major Rinaldi |
| 1957 | Doctor and the Healer | Antonio Locoratolo |
| 1957 | Fathers and Sons | Vincenzo Corallo |
| 1957 | Holiday Island | Engineer Occhipinti |
| 1957 | Paris Casino | Alexander Gordy |
| 1957 | La donna che venne dal mare | Console Bordogin |
| 1957 | It Happened in Rome | The Count |
| 1957 | The Guilty | Giorgio Vasari |
| 1956 | Nero's Mistress | Seneca |
| 1956 | The Monte Carlo Story | Count Dino della Fiaba |
| 1956 | Noi siamo le colonne | Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato |
| 1956 | I giorni più belli | |
| 1956 | Time of Vacation | Aristide Rossi |
| 1956 | The Bigamist | Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince |
| 1955 | The Miller's Beautiful Wife | Don Teofilo - governatore |
| 1955 | Scandal in Sorrento | Maresciallo Carotenuto |
| 1955 | The Sign of Venus | Alessio Spano |
| 1955 | It Happens in Roma | Carlo Reani |
| 1955 | Roman Tales | Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer |
| 1954 | Too Bad She's Bad | Vittorio Stroppiani |
| 1954 | Gran varietà | Veneziani |
| 1954 | The Gold of Naples | Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori") |
| 1954 | Frisky | Maresciallo Carotenuto |
| 1954 | The Anatomy of Love | Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio |
| 1954 | The Secrets of the Bed | Roberto (segment "Divorce, Le") |
| 1954 | 100 Years of Love | Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin") |
| 1954 | Il matrimonio | Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov |
| 1954 | The Cheerful Squadron | Il generale |
| 1954 | Modern Virgin | Antonio Valli |
| 1953 | The Earrings of Madame de... | Baron Fabrizio Donati |
| 1953 | Bread, Love and Dreams | Maresciallo Carotenuto |
| 1953 | It Happened in the Park | Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese) |
| 1952 | Times Gone By | Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine") |
| 1952 | Hello Elephant | Carlo Caretti |
| 1951 | Position Wanted | Leonardo Leonardi |
| 1950 | Tomorrow Is Too Late | Professor Landi |
| 1948 | Unknown Men of San Marino | Leo, l'ateo |
| 1948 | Heart | Master Perboni |
| 1947 | Lost in the Dark | Carmine |
| 1947 | Christmas at Camp 119 | Don Vicenzino |
| 1946 | Peddlin' in Society | Il conte Ghirani |
| 1946 | Il mondo vuole così | Paolo Morelli |
| 1946 | Rome: Free City | Il signore distinto |
| 1945 | No One Comes Back | Maurizio |
| 1945 | Lo sbaglio di essere vivo | Adriano Lari |
| 1943 | Our Dreams | Leo |
| 1942 | A Garibaldian in the Convent | Nino Bixio |
| 1942 | If I Was Honest | Pietro Kovach |
| 1942 | La guardia del corpo | Riccardo, investigatore privato |
| 1941 | Teresa Venerdì | Dott. Pietro Vignali |
| 1941 | The Adventuress from the Floor Above | Fabrizio Marchini |
| 1940 | Maddalena, Zero for Conduct | Alfredo Hartman |
| 1940 | Red Roses | Alberto Verani |
| 1940 | The Sinner | Pietro Bandelli |
| 1940 | Manon Lescaut | Renato Des Grieux |
| 1940 | Pazza di gioia | Conte Corrado Valli |
| 1939 | Castles in the Air | Riccardo Pietramola |
| 1939 | Napoli che non muore | |
| 1939 | Ai vostri ordini, signora... | Pietro Haguet |
| 1939 | Department Store | Bruno Zacchi |
| 1939 | It Always Ends That Way | Alberto Milnar |
| 1938 | Hanno rapito un uomo | L'attore cinematografico |
| 1938 | La mazurka di papà | Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro |
| 1938 | The Cuckoo Clock | |
| 1938 | Le due madri | Salvatore |
| 1938 | Napoli d'altri tempi | Mario Esposito |
| 1937 | Mister Max | Gianni / Max Varaldo |
| 1937 | Questi ragazzi | Vincenzo |
| 1937 | The Man Who Smiles | Pio Fardella |
| 1936 | But It's Nothing Serious | Memmo Speranza |
| 1936 | Lohengrin | Alfredo |
| 1936 | I Don't Know You Anymore | Il dottore Alberto Spinelli |
| 1935 | Amo te sola | Giovanni |
| 1935 | I'll Give a Million | Gold |
| 1934 | Full Speed | Il professore Giacomo Banti |
| 1934 | La canzone del sole | Paladino, l'avvocato |
| 1933 | Lisetta | |
| 1933 | Un cattivo soggetto | Willy |
| 1933 | Das Lied der Sonne | Dr. Giuseppe Paladino |
| 1932 | What Scoundrels Men Are! | Bruno |
| 1932 | Two Happy Hearts | Mr. Brown |
| 1932 | The secretary for everyone | |
| 1932 | The Old Lady | Fine dicitore |
| 1928 | La compagnia dei matti | Prof. Rosolillo |
| 1927 | La bellezza del mondo | |
| 1917 | The Clemenceau Affair | Pierre Clémenceau bambino |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | The Adventures of Pinocchio | Giudice |
| 1971 | Samedi soir | Self |
| 1959 | The Four Just Men | Ricco Poccari |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame |