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
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Marquis Di Fiore
as Mauro Del Giudice
as Maresciallo Cenciarelli
as giudice
as Enrico Dolphi
as Giove
as Giudice
as Enrico Formichi
as Player in Venice casino
as Don Michele
as Self
as Di Seta
as Shoemaker
as Cardinal Rinaldi
as Le comte de Bièvre
as Cesare Celli
as Lando Marossi
as Self
as Retired
as Himself
as Self - Interviewee
as Commendator Trepossi
as der Graf
as (uncredited)
as Bancroft
as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
as Genie
as Defense lawyer
as L'ambassadeur d'Espagne
as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
as le réalisateur
as Il sindaco
as Joe
as Colonel Piero Cuocolo
as Colonel Belalcazar
as Mario Vitale
as le pape Pie VII
as General Clave
as The Prince
as Seccano
as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
as O.I.M.P. President
as Director Pietro Giordani
as Maurizio
as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
as Spartaco
as Alfredo
as Ricco Poccari
as Tonino
as Armando Conforti
as Il professore
as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
as Don Luigi
as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
as Avvocato Bonelli
as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
as Engineer Occhipinti
as Major Rinaldi
as Antonio Locoratolo
as Console Bordogin
as Alexander Gordy
as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
as The Count
as Giorgio
as Vincenzo Corallo
as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
as Count Dino della Fiaba
as Aristide Rossi
as Seneca
as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
as Self
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
as Don Teofilo - governatore
as Carlo Reani
as Alessio Spano
as Vittorio Stroppiani
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
as Il generale
as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
as Antonio Valli
as Roberto
as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
as Veneziani
as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
as Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
as Baron Fabrizio Donati
as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
as Carlo Caretti
as Leonardo Leonardi
as Professor Landi
as Master Perboni
as Leo, l'ateo
as Don Vicenzino
as Carmine
as Il conte Ghirani
as Il signore distinto
as Paolo Morelli
as Adriano Lari
as Maurizio
as Leo
as Nino Bixio
as Pietro Kovach
as Dott. Pietro Vignali
as Fabrizio Marchini
as Alfredo Hartman
as Alberto Verani
as Conte Corrado Valli
as Renato Des Grieux
as Pietro Bandelli
as Alberto Milnar
as Bruno Zacchi
as Riccardo Pietramola
as Pietro Haguet
as Salvatore
as L'attore cinematografico
as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
as Mario Esposito
as Gianni / Max Varaldo
as Pio Fardella
as Vincenzo
as Memmo Speranza
as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
as Alfredo
as Giovanni
as Gold
as Il professore Giacomo Banti
as Paladino, l'avvocato
as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
as Willy
as Bruno
as Mr. Brown
as Fine dicitore
as Prof. Rosolillo
as Pierre Clémenceau bambino
Writer
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
Sound
as Original Music Composer
as Original Music Composer
Crew
as Thanks
as Supervising Technical Director