Vittorio De Sica

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1901-07-07

Deathday 1974-11-13 (73 years old)

Place of Birth Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy

Also Known As Витторио Де Сика, 비토리오 데 시카

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

Director

1974
The Voyage

as Director

1973
A Brief Vacation

as Director

1972
1970
Sunflower

as Director

1970
The Couples

as Director

1968
A Place for Lovers

as Director

1967
The Witches

as Director

1967
Woman Times Seven

as Director

1966
After the Fox

as Director

1966
A Young World

as Director

1964
1963
The Boom

as Director

1962
Boccaccio '70

as Director

1962
1961
The Last Judgment

as Director

1960
Two Women

as Director

1956
The Roof

as Director

1954
The Gold of Naples

as Director

1952
Umberto D.

as Director

1951
Miracle in Milan

as Director

1948
Bicycle Thieves

as Director

1948
Heart

as Director

1946
Shoeshine

as Director

1945
The Gate of Heaven

as Director

1941
Teresa Venerdì

as Director

1940
Red Roses

as Director

Actor

2022
The Garden That Doesn't Exist

as Self (archive footage)

2021
We Are Cinema

as Self (archive footage)

2021
2019
Sophia Loren, a special destiny

as Self (archive footage)

2010
1960

as Self (archive footage)

2009
Vittorio D.

as Self (archive footage)

2007
Working with De Sica

as Self (archive footage)

2005
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

as Self (archive footage)

2003
Cesare Zavattini

as Self (archive footage)

2001
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica

as Self (archive footage)

1980
My Name Is Anna Magnani

as Self (archive footage)

1974
Blood for Dracula

as Marquis Di Fiore

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
Snow Job

as Enrico Dolphi

1972
1971
Trastevere

as Enrico Formichi

1971
1971
Cose di Cosa Nostra

as Don Michele

1971
Samedi soir

as Self

1969
Twelve Plus One

as Di Seta

1968
The Shoes of the Fisherman

as Cardinal Rinaldi

1968
Dear Caroline

as Le comte de Bièvre

1968
1967
An Italian in America

as Lando Marossi

1966
After the Fox

as Himself

1966
1966
Me, Me, Me... and the Others

as Commendator Trepossi

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 Last Judgment

as Defense lawyer

1961
1961
L'onorata società

as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'

1960
Love in Rome

as le réalisateur

1960
The Traffic Policeman

as Il sindaco

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
The Battle of Austerlitz

as le pape Pie VII

1960
The Angel Wore Red

as General Clave

1960
Gastone

as The Prince

1959
General Della Rovere

as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'

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
1959
1959
The Four Just Men

as Ricco Poccari

1958
The Girl of San Pietro Square

as Armando Conforti

1958
The Inveterate Bachelor

as Il professore

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
La donna che venne dal mare

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

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
The Bigamist

as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince

1956
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 Il generale

1954
The Gold of Naples

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

1954
Modern Virgin

as Antonio Valli

1954
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 - the lawyer (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
Position Wanted

as Leonardo Leonardi

1950
Tomorrow Is Too Late

as Professor Landi

1948
Heart

as Master Perboni

1948
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
1945
No One Comes Back

as Maurizio

1943
Our Dreams

as Leo

1942
If I Was Honest

as Pietro Kovach

1941
Teresa Venerdì

as Dott. Pietro Vignali

1941
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
1938
Le due madri

as Salvatore

1938
Hanno rapito un uomo

as L'attore cinematografico

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
Amo te sola

as Giovanni

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
1932
Two Happy Hearts

as Mr. Brown

1932
The Old Lady

as Fine dicitore

1928
La compagnia dei matti

as Prof. Rosolillo

1917
The Clemenceau Affair

as Pierre Clémenceau bambino

Writer

1954
The Gold of Naples

as Screenplay

1951
Miracle in Milan

as Screenplay

1948
Bicycle Thieves

as Screenplay

1947
Lost in the Dark

as Screenplay

1947
Christmas at Camp 119

as Screenplay

1945
The Gate of Heaven

as Screenplay

1943
Our Dreams

as Screenplay

1942
If I Was Honest

as Screenplay

1941
Teresa Venerdì

as Screenplay

Producer

1970
Io e Dio

as Producer

1956
The Roof

as Producer

1952
Hello Elephant

as Producer

1952
Umberto D.

as Producer

1951
Miracle in Milan

as Producer

1948
Bicycle Thieves

as Producer

Sound

1958
Bread, Love and Andalucia

as Original Music Composer

1958
Fast and Sexy

as Original Music Composer

Crew

1965
Tokyo Olympiad

as Thanks

1958
Fast and Sexy

as Supervising Technical Director