Directing
Vittorio De Sica
IT, FR, EN, RU cinema · 199 credits
Born
7 July 1901
Died
13 November 1974 (aged 73)
Birthplace
Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
Also known as Витторио Де Сика · 비토리오 데 시카 · ویتوریو دسیکا
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
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
as Self (Archive Footage)
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
as Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
as Self (archive footage)
1960
as Self (archive footage)
Vittorio D.
as Self (archive footage)
Working with De Sica
as Self (archive footage)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self (archive footage)
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
as (archive footage)
Cesare Zavattini
as Self (archive footage)
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
as Self (archive footage)
My Name Is Anna Magnani
as Self (archive footage)
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
as (archive footage)
Blood for Dracula
as Marquis Di Fiore
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited), Presenter
The Voyage
Director
The Assassination of Matteotti
as Mauro Del Giudice
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
as Maresciallo Cenciarelli
The Small Miracle
as Father Damico
A Brief Vacation
Director
Snow Job
as Enrico Dolphi
Hector the Mighty
as Giove
Scandal Man
as Milord
The Adventures of Pinocchio
as giudice
Mafia Things
as Don Michele
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
Trastevere
as Enrico Formichi
I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
as Player in Venice casino
Sunflower
Director
The Couples
Director, Writer
Io e Dio
Producer
Twelve Plus One
as Di Seta
The Shoes of the Fisherman
as Cardinal Rinaldi
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
as Cesare Celli
Dear Caroline
as Le comte de Bièvre
A Place for Lovers
Director
An Italian in America
as Lando Marossi
Lionpower from MGM
as Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Witches
Director
Woman Times Seven
Director
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
as Commendator Trepossi
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
as Retired
Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
as Self - Interviewee
After the Fox
as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited), Director
A Young World
Director
The Boom
Director
Lafayette
as Bancroft
Eva
as (uncredited)
Lykke og krone
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Boccaccio '70
Director
The Two Marshals
as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
The Last Judgment
as Defense lawyer, Director
The Orderly
as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
as Ambassador of Spain
The Honored Society
as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
The Traffic Policeman
as Il sindaco
It Started in Naples
as Mario Vitale
Austerlitz
as le pape Pie VII
Love in Rome
as le réalisateur
The Angel Wore Red
as General Clave
Gastone
as The Prince
Le pillole di Ercole
as Colonel Piero Cuocolo
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
as Colonel Belalcazar
Two Women
Director
The Moralist
as O.I.M.P. President
Ferdinand I King of Naples
as Seccano
Winter Holidays
as Maurizio
My Wife's Enemy
as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
Venetian Honeymoon
as Alfredo
Il mondo dei miracoli
as Director Pietro Giordani
Nel blu dipinto di blu
as Spartaco
General Della Rovere
as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
Men and Noblemen
as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
Bread, Love and Andalucia
as Tonino, Producer, Original Music Composer
Domenica è sempre domenica
as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
Cannon Serenade
as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
Love and Chatter
as Avvocato Bonelli
Fast and Sexy
as Don Luigi, Supervising Technical Director, Original Music Composer, Co-Director
The Inveterate Bachelor
as Il professore
The Girl of San Pietro Square
as Armando Conforti
Il conte Max
as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
A Farewell to Arms
as Major Rinaldi
Doctor and the Healer
as Antonio Locoratolo
Fathers and Sons
as Vincenzo Corallo
Holiday Island
as Engineer Occhipinti
Paris Casino
as Alexander Gordy
The Woman Who Came from the Sea
as Console Bordogin
It Happened in Rome
as The Count
The Guilty
as Giorgio Vasari
Nero's Mistress
as Seneca
The Monte Carlo Story
as Count Dino della Fiaba
Noi siamo le colonne
as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
Time of Vacation
as Aristide Rossi
The Bigamist
as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
The Roof
Director, Producer
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
as Don Teofilo - governatore
Scandal in Sorrento
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
The Sign of Venus
as Alessio Spano
It Happens in Roma
as Carlo Reani
Roman Tales
as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
Too Bad She's Bad
as Vittorio Stroppiani
Gran varietà
as Veneziani
The Gold of Naples
as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori"), Director, Screenplay
Frisky
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
The Anatomy of Love
as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
The Secrets of the Bed
as Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")
100 Years of Love
as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
Il matrimonio
as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
The Cheerful Squadron
as General
Modern Virgin
as Antonio Valli
The Earrings of Madame de...
as Baron Fabrizio Donati
Bread, Love and Dreams
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
It Happened in the Park
as Arturo Cavazzuti (segment "Incidente a Villa Borghese")
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Director, Producer
Times Gone By
as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
Hello Elephant
as Carlo Caretti, Producer
Umberto D.
Director, Producer
Position Wanted
as Leonardo Leonardi
Miracle in Milan
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Tomorrow Is Too Late
as Professor Landi
Unknown Men of San Marino
as Leo, l'ateo
Heart
as Master Perboni, Director
Bicycle Thieves
Director, Producer, Screenplay
Lost in the Dark
as Carmine, Screenplay
Christmas at Camp 119
as Don Vicenzino, Screenplay
Peddlin' in Society
as Il conte Ghirani
Il mondo vuole così
as Paolo Morelli
Rome: Free City
as Il signore distinto
Shoeshine
Director
No One Comes Back
as Maurizio
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
as Adriano Lari
The Gates of Heaven
Director, Screenplay
Our Dreams
as Leo, Screenplay
The Children Are Watching Us
Director, Screenplay
A Garibaldian in the Convent
as Nino Bixio, Director, Screenplay
If I Was Honest
as Pietro Kovach, Screenplay
La guardia del corpo
as Riccardo, investigatore privato, Writer
Teresa Venerdì
as Dott. Pietro Vignali, Director, Screenplay
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
as Fabrizio Marchini
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
as Alfredo Hartman, Director
Red Roses
as Alberto Verani, Director
The Sinner
as Pietro Bandelli
Manon Lescaut
as Renato Des Grieux
Pazza di gioia
as Conte Corrado Valli
Castles in the Air
as Riccardo Pietramola
Ai vostri ordini, signora...
as Pietro Haguet
Department Store
as Bruno Zacchi
It Always Ends That Way
as Alberto Milnar
Hanno rapito un uomo
as L'attore cinematografico
La mazurka di papà
as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
Le due madri
1938
Le due madri
as Salvatore
Napoli d'altri tempi
as Mario Esposito
Partire
as Paolo Veronda
Mister Max
as Gianni / Max Varaldo
The Man Who Smiles
as Pio Fardella
But It's Nothing Serious
as Memmo Speranza
Lohengrin
as Alfredo
I Don't Know You Anymore
as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
I Love You Only
as Giovanni
Full Speed
as Il professore Giacomo Banti
La canzone del sole
as Paladino, l'avvocato
Lisetta
as Fritz Peters
Un cattivo soggetto
as Willy
Das Lied der Sonne
as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
Two Happy Hearts
as Mr. Brown
The Old Lady
as Fine dicitore
La compagnia dei matti
1928
La compagnia dei matti
as Prof. Rosolillo
The Clemenceau Affair
as Pierre Clémenceau bambino