Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio De Sica

  • Birthday: 1901-07-07
  • Deathday: 1974-11-13
  • Place of birth: Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
  • Also know as: Витторио Де Сика

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.

Filmography

Teresa Venerdì

1941

As Dott. Pietro Vignali

Maddalena... zero in condotta

1940

As Alfredo Hartman

Too Bad She's Bad

1954

As Vittorio Stroppiani

The Miller's Beautiful Wife

1955

As Don Teofilo - governatore

Scandal in Sorrento

1955

As Maresciallo Carotenuto

Bread, Love and Dreams

1953

As Maresciallo Carotenuto

Frisky

1954

As Maresciallo Carotenuto

The Anatomy of Love

1954

As Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio

Noi siamo le colonne

1956

As Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato

The Biggest Bundle of Them All

1968

As Cesare Celli

Our Dreams

1943

As Leo

Full Speed

1934

As Il professore Giacomo Banti

Doctor and the Healer

1957

As Antonio Locoratolo

Hanno rapito un uomo

1938

As L'attore cinematografico

But It's Nothing Serious

1936

As Memmo Speranza

Il mondo vuole così

1946

As Paolo Morelli

Cannon Serenade

1958

As Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän

I'll Give a Million

1935

As Gold

Department Store

1939

As Bruno Zacchi

Hello Elephant

1952

As Carlo Caretti

L'avventuriera del piano di sopra

1941

As Fabrizio Marchini

Love and Chatter

1958

As Avvocato Bonelli

The Man Who Smiles

1937

As Pio Fardella

The Orderly

1961

As Colonnello Filippo Bitossi

Time of Vacation

1956

As Aristide Rossi

If I Was Honest

1942

As Pietro Kovach

The Sinner

1940

As Pietro Bandelli

La mazurka di papà

1938

As Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro

Red Roses

1940

As Alberto Verani

Holiday Island

1957

As Engineer Occhipinti

I Don't Know You Anymore

1936

As Il dottore Alberto Spinelli

La canzone del sole

1934

As Paladino, l'avvocato

Fathers and Sons

1957

As Vincenzo Corallo

The Inveterate Bachelor

1958

As Il professore

The Girl of San Pietro Square

1958

As Armando Conforti

Tomorrow Is Too Late

1950

As Professor Landi

Mister Max

1937

As Gianni / Max Varaldo

Heart

1948

As Master Perboni

Il matrimonio

1954

As Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov

The Cheerful Squadron

1954

As Il generale

Le due madri

1938

As Salvatore

General Della Rovere

1959

As Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'

Men and Noblemen

1959

As marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola

Modern Virgin

1954

As Antonio Valli

Napoli d'altri tempi

1938

As Mario Esposito

It Always Ends That Way

1939

As Alberto Milnar

Pazza di gioia

1940

As Conte Corrado Valli

Amo te sola

1935

As Giovanni

Un cattivo soggetto

1933

As Willy

Two Happy Hearts

1932

As Mr. Brown

Lohengrin

1936

As Alfredo

That's Life: Vittorio De Sica

2001

As Self (archive footage)

Lisetta

1933

As

Il conte Max

1957

As Conte Max Orsini Varaldo

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

1957

As Marchese Vittorio De Vittti

Castles in the Air

1939

As Riccardo Pietramola

Nero's Mistress

1956

As Seneca

The Moralist

1959

As O.I.M.P. President

Gran varietà

1954

As Veneziani

Domenica è sempre domenica

1958

As Il 'comandante' Gastaldi

The Two Marshals

1961

As Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone

The Monte Carlo Story

1956

As Count Dino della Fiaba

An Italian in America

1967

As Lando Marossi

La donna che venne dal mare

1957

As Console Bordogin

Dear Caroline

1968

As Le comte de Bièvre

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo

1945

As Adriano Lari

It Happens in Roma

1955

As Carlo Reani

Venetian Honeymoon

1959

As Alfredo

Gastone

1960

As The Prince

Fast and Sexy

1958

As Don Luigi

Unkown Men of San Marino

1948

As Leo, l'ateo

Christmas at Camp 119

1947

As Don Vicenzino

Paris Casino

1957

As Alexander Gordy

Das Lied der Sonne

1933

As Dr. Giuseppe Paladino

Peddlin' in Society

1946

As Il conte Ghirani

Manon Lescaut

1940

As Renato Des Grieux

Three Etc.'s and the Colonel

1960

As Colonel Belalcazar

It Happened in the Park

1953

As Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)

1960

2010

As Self (archive footage)

Ai vostri ordini, signora...

1939

As Pietro Haguet

Questi ragazzi

1937

As Vincenzo

The Millionairess

1960

As Joe

Blood for Dracula

1974

As Marquis Di Fiore

The Earrings of Madame de...

1953

As Baron Fabrizio Donati

The Traffic Policeman

1960

As Il sindaco

It Started in Naples

1960

As Mario Vitale

A Farewell to Arms

1957

As Major Rinaldi

Il nemico di mia moglie

1959

As professor Ottavio Tornabuoni

The Sign of Venus

1955

As Alessio Spano

Winter Holidays

1959

As Maurizio

The Guilty

1957

As Giorgio

The Garden That Doesn't Exist

2022

As Self (archive footage)

Twelve Plus One

1969

As Di Seta

Snow Job

1972

As Enrico Dolphi

The Assassination of Matteotti

1973

As Mauro Del Giudice

Love in Rome

1960

As le réalisateur

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

1966

As Commendator Trepossi

The Angel Wore Red

1960

As General Clave

Il mondo dei miracoli

1959

As Director Pietro Giordani

Hector the Mighty

1972

As Giove

Le pillole di Ercole

1960

As Colonel Piero Cuocolo

The Bigamist

1956

As Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince

Sophia Loren, une destinée particulière

2019

As Self (archive footage)

The Shoes of the Fisherman

1968

As Cardinal Rinaldi

The Battle of Austerlitz

1960

As le pape Pie VII

100 Years of Love

1954

As Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")

The Clemenceau Affair

1917

As Pierre Clémenceau bambino

L'onorata società

1961

As Salvatore il 'Capintesta'

Trastevere

1971

As Enrico Formichi

The Old Lady

1932

As Fine dicitore

Working with De Sica

2007

As Self (archive footage)

Rome: Free City

1946

As Il signore distinto

Cesare Zavattini

2003

As Self (archive footage)

Times Gone By

1952

As Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")

Position Wanted

1951

As Leonardo Leonardi

Cose di Cosa Nostra

1971

As Don Michele

Lafayette

1962

As Bancroft

La compagnia dei matti

1928

As Prof. Rosolillo

The Secrets of the Bed

1954

As Roberto

My Name Is Anna Magnani

1980

As Self (archive footage)

Nel blu dipinto di blu

1959

As Spartaco

I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear

1971

As Player in Venice casino

The Last Judgment

1961

As Defense lawyer

Vittorio D.

2009

As Self (archive footage)

No One Comes Back

1945

As Maurizio

It Happened in Rome

1957

As The Count

A Garibaldian in the Convent

1942

As Nino Bixio

Vive Henri IV... vive l'amour!

1961

As L'ambassadeur d'Espagne

Storia de fratelli e de cortelli

1973

As Maresciallo Cenciarelli

After the Fox

1966

As Himself

Roman Tales

1955

As Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer

The Gold of Naples

1954

As Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

2021

As Self (archive footage)

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

1959

As Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)

Eva

1962

As (uncredited)

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

2005

As Self (archive footage)

We Are Cinema

2021

As Self (archive footage)

Production

Tokyo Olympiad

1965

As Thanks

Fast and Sexy

1958

As Supervising Technical Director

Umberto D.

1952

As Director

Sunflower

1970

As Director

Bicycle Thieves

1948

As Director

Two Women

1960

As Director

The Witches

1967

As Director

Teresa Venerdì

1941

As Director

Woman Times Seven

1967

As Director

Miracle in Milan

1951

As Director

Shoeshine

1946

As Director

Boccaccio '70

1962

As Director

Marriage Italian Style

1964

As Director

After the Fox

1966

As Director

The Boom

1963

As Director

The Gold of Naples

1954

As Director

A Brief Vacation

1973

As Director

The Last Judgment

1961

As Director

A Place for Lovers

1968

As Director

The Roof

1956

As Director

The Couples

1970

As Director

The Voyage

1974

As Director

The Condemned of Altona

1962

As Director

We'll Call Him Andrea

1972

As Director

Red Roses

1940

As Director

The Gate of Heaven

1945

As Director

Un monde nouveau

1966

As Director

Bicycle Thieves

1948

As Producer

Bread, Love and Andalucia

1958

As Producer

Miracle in Milan

1951

As Producer

Umberto D.

1952

As Producer

The Roof

1956

As Producer

Io e Dio

1970

As Producer

Hello Elephant

1952

As Producer

Fast and Sexy

1958

As Original Music Composer

Bread, Love and Andalucia

1958

As Original Music Composer

Bicycle Thieves

1948

As Screenplay

A Garibaldian in the Convent

1942

As Screenplay

The Gold of Naples

1954

As Screenplay

Miracle in Milan

1951

As Screenplay

Christmas at Camp 119

1947

As Screenplay

The Gate of Heaven

1945

As Screenplay

The Children Are Watching Us

1944

As Screenplay

Teresa Venerdì

1941

As Screenplay

Sperduti nel buio

1947

As Screenplay

Our Dreams

1943

As Screenplay

If I Was Honest

1942

As Screenplay

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