Vittorio De Sica
177 movies · 4 TV shows
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Jul 7, 1901
- Died
- Nov 13, 1974 (age 73)
- Place of birth
- Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
- Also known as
- Витторио Де Сика · 비토리오 데 시카 · ویتوریو دسیکا
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.
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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.
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Known for
Vittorio De Sica: movies and TV shows
Acting (152)
- 2022
- 2004
- 1975 Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
as (archive footage)
- 1974 Blood for Dracula
as Marquis Di Fiore
- 1973
- 1973 The Assassination of Matteotti
as Mauro Del Giudice
- 1973 Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
as Maresciallo Cenciarelli
- 1973 The Small Miracle
as Father Damico
- 1972 The Adventures of Pinocchio
as giudice
- 1972
- 1972 Scandal Man
as Milord
- 1972 Snow Job
as Enrico Dolphi
- 1972 Hector the Mighty
as Giove
- 1971 We Are All in Temporary Liberty
as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
- 1971 Trastevere
as Enrico Formichi
- 1971 I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
as Player in Venice casino
- 1971 Mafia Things
as Don Michele
- 1969 Twelve Plus One
as Di Seta
- 1969 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
as Shoemaker
- 1968 The Shoes of the Fisherman
as Cardinal Rinaldi
- 1968 Dear Caroline
as Le comte de Bièvre
- 1968 The Biggest Bundle of Them All
as Cesare Celli
- 1967 An Italian in America
as Lando Marossi
- 1966 Gli altri, gli altri e noi
as Retired
- 1966 After the Fox
as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
- 1966 Me, Me, Me... and the Others
as Commendator Trepossi
- 1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as der Graf
- 1962 Eva
as (uncredited)
- 1962 Lafayette
as Bancroft
- 1961 The Two Marshals
as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
- 1961 The Orderly
as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
- 1961 The Wonders of Aladdin
as Genie
- 1961 The Last Judgment
as Defense lawyer
- 1961 Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
as Ambassador of Spain
- 1961 The Honored Society
as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
- 1960 Love in Rome
as le réalisateur
- 1960 The Traffic Policeman
as Il sindaco
- 1960 The Millionairess
as Joe
- 1960 Le pillole di Ercole
as Colonel Piero Cuocolo
- 1960 Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
as Colonel Belalcazar
- 1960 It Started in Naples
as Mario Vitale
- 1960 Austerlitz
as le pape Pie VII
- 1960 The Angel Wore Red
as General Clave
- 1960 Gastone
as The Prince
- 1959 Ferdinand I King of Naples
as Seccano
- 1959 General Della Rovere
as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
- 1959
- 1959 The Moralist
as O.I.M.P. President
- 1959 Il mondo dei miracoli
as Director Pietro Giordani
- 1959 Winter Holidays
as Maurizio
- 1959 Men and Noblemen
as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
- 1959 My Wife's Enemy
as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
- 1959 Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
- 1959 Nel blu dipinto di blu
as Spartaco
- 1959 Venetian Honeymoon
as Alfredo
- 1958 Bread, Love and Andalucia
as Tonino
- 1958 The Girl of San Pietro Square
as Armando Conforti
- 1958 The Inveterate Bachelor
as Il professore
- 1958
- 1958 Cannon Serenade
as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
- 1958 Fast and Sexy
as Don Luigi
- 1958 Domenica è sempre domenica
as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
- 1958 Love and Chatter
as Avvocato Bonelli
- 1957 Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
- 1957 Holiday Island
as Engineer Occhipinti
- 1957 A Farewell to Arms
as Major Rinaldi
- 1957 Doctor and the Healer
as Antonio Locoratolo
- 1957 The Woman Who Came from the Sea
as Console Bordogin
- 1957 Paris Casino
as Alexander Gordy
- 1957 Il conte Max
as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
- 1957 It Happened in Rome
as The Count
- 1957 The Guilty
as Giorgio Vasari
- 1957 Fathers and Sons
as Vincenzo Corallo
- 1956 Noi siamo le colonne
as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
- 1956 The Monte Carlo Story
as Count Dino della Fiaba
- 1956 Time of Vacation
as Aristide Rossi
- 1956 Nero's Mistress
as Seneca
- 1956
- 1956 The Bigamist
as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
- 1955 Scandal in Sorrento
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
- 1955 Roman Tales
as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
- 1955 The Miller's Beautiful Wife
as Don Teofilo - governatore
- 1955 It Happens in Roma
as Carlo Reani
- 1955 The Sign of Venus
as Alessio Spano
- 1954 Too Bad She's Bad
as Vittorio Stroppiani
- 1954 Frisky
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
- 1954 The Cheerful Squadron
as General
- 1954 The Gold of Naples
as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
- 1954 Modern Virgin
as Antonio Valli
- 1954 The Secrets of the Bed
as Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")
- 1954 The Anatomy of Love
as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
- 1954 Gran varietà
as Veneziani
- 1954 100 Years of Love
as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
- 1954 Il matrimonio
as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
- 1953 Bread, Love and Dreams
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
- 1953 It Happened in the Park
as Arturo Cavazzuti (segment "Incidente a Villa Borghese")
- 1953 The Earrings of Madame de...
as Baron Fabrizio Donati
- 1952 Times Gone By
as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
- 1952 Hello Elephant
as Carlo Caretti
- 1951
- 1951 Position Wanted
as Leonardo Leonardi
- 1950 Tomorrow Is Too Late
as Professor Landi
- 1948 Heart
as Master Perboni
- 1948 Unknown Men of San Marino
as Leo, l'ateo
- 1947 Christmas at Camp 119
as Don Vicenzino
- 1947 Lost in the Dark
as Carmine
- 1946 Peddlin' in Society
as Il conte Ghirani
- 1946 Rome: Free City
as Il signore distinto
- 1946 Il mondo vuole così
as Paolo Morelli
- 1945 Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
as Adriano Lari
- 1945 No One Comes Back
as Maurizio
- 1943 Our Dreams
as Leo
- 1942 La guardia del corpo
as Riccardo, investigatore privato
- 1942 A Garibaldian in the Convent
as Nino Bixio
- 1942 If I Was Honest
as Pietro Kovach
- 1941 Teresa Venerdì
as Dott. Pietro Vignali
- 1941 The Adventuress from the Floor Above
as Fabrizio Marchini
- 1940 Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
as Alfredo Hartman
- 1940 Red Roses
as Alberto Verani
- 1940 Pazza di gioia
as Conte Corrado Valli
- 1940 Manon Lescaut
as Renato Des Grieux
- 1940 The Sinner
as Pietro Bandelli
- 1939 It Always Ends That Way
as Alberto Milnar
- 1939 Department Store
as Bruno Zacchi
- 1939 Castles in the Air
as Riccardo Pietramola
- 1939 Ai vostri ordini, signora...
as Pietro Haguet
- 1939
- 1938 Le due madri
as Salvatore
- 1938 Hanno rapito un uomo
as L'attore cinematografico
- 1938
- 1938 La mazurka di papà
as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
- 1938 Napoli d'altri tempi
as Mario Esposito
- 1937 Mister Max
as Gianni / Max Varaldo
- 1937 The Man Who Smiles
as Pio Fardella
- 1937 Questi ragazzi
as Vincenzo
- 1936 But It's Nothing Serious
as Memmo Speranza
- 1936 I Don't Know You Anymore
as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
- 1936 Lohengrin
as Alfredo
- 1935 I Love You Only
as Giovanni
- 1935 I'll Give a Million
as Gold
- 1934 Full Speed
as Il professore Giacomo Banti
- 1934 La canzone del sole
as Paladino, l'avvocato
- 1933 Das Lied der Sonne
as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
- 1933 Lisetta
as Fritz Peters
- 1933 Un cattivo soggetto
as Willy
- 1932
- 1932 What Scoundrels Men Are!
as Bruno
- 1932 Two Happy Hearts
as Mr. Brown
- 1932 The Old Lady
as Fine dicitore
- 1928 La compagnia dei matti
as Prof. Rosolillo
- 1927
- 1917 The Clemenceau Affair
as Pierre Clémenceau bambino
Behind the camera (46)
- 2007 The Sons of His Mistress
Author
- 1974 We All Loved Each Other So Much
Presenter
- 1974 The Voyage
Director
- 1973 A Brief Vacation
Director
- 1972 We'll Call Him Andrea
Director
- 1971
- 1970 The Couples
Director, Writer
- 1970 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Director
- 1970 Io e Dio
Producer
- 1970 Sunflower
Director
- 1968 A Place for Lovers
Director
- 1967 Woman Times Seven
Director
- 1967 The Witches
Director
- 1966 After the Fox
Director
- 1966 A Young World
Director
- 1965 Tokyo Olympiad
Thanks
- 1964 Marriage Italian Style
Director
- 1963 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Director
- 1963 The Boom
Director
- 1962 The Condemned of Altona
Director
- 1962 Boccaccio '70
Director
- 1961 The Last Judgment
Director
- 1960 Two Women
Director
- 1958 Bread, Love and Andalucia
Producer, Original Music Composer
- 1958 Fast and Sexy
Supervising Technical Director, Original Music Composer, Co-Director
- 1956 The Roof
Director, Producer
- 1954 The Gold of Naples
Director, Screenplay
- 1953 Indiscretion of an American Wife
Director, Producer
- 1952 Hello Elephant
Producer
- 1952 Umberto D.
Director, Producer
- 1951 Mamma mia, che impressione!
Producer
- 1951 Miracle in Milan
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 1948 Bicycle Thieves
Screenplay, Director, Producer
- 1948 Heart
Director
- 1947 Christmas at Camp 119
Screenplay
- 1947 Lost in the Dark
Screenplay
- 1946 Shoeshine
Director
- 1945 The Gates of Heaven
Director, Screenplay
- 1943 The Children Are Watching Us
Director, Screenplay
- 1943 Our Dreams
Screenplay
- 1942 La guardia del corpo
Writer
- 1942 A Garibaldian in the Convent
Director, Screenplay
- 1942 If I Was Honest
Screenplay
- 1941 Teresa Venerdì
Director, Screenplay
- 1940 Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
Director
- 1940 Red Roses
Director
Talk shows and appearances (23)
- 2026
- 2025 Quelli che il cinema
20 episodes
- 2022
- 2021
- 2021
- 2019
- 2010
- 2009
- 2007
- 2005
- 2003
- 2001
- 1985
- 1980
- 1971 Samedi soir
1 episode
- 1967
- 1967
- 1966
- 1965
- 1964
- 1962
- 1958
- 1956 Cinépanorama
1 episode