Vittorio De Sica
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
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Four Just Men
Ricco Poccari
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Cardinal Rinaldi
Les Aventures De Pinocchio
Giudice
Blood for Dracula
Marquis Di Fiore
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Adventures of Pinocchio
giudice
The Millionairess
Joe
The Earrings of Madame de...
Baron Fabrizio Donati
General Della Rovere
Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Shoemaker
A Farewell to Arms
Major Rinaldi
Eva
(uncredited)
After the Fox
Himself
The Battle of Austerlitz
le pape Pie VII
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
It Started in Naples
Mario Vitale
The Wonders of Aladdin
Genie
Scandal in Sorrento
Maresciallo Carotenuto
Nero's Mistress
Seneca
The Traffic Policeman
Il sindaco
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
der Graf
The Gold of Naples
Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
Hector the Mighty
Giove
Dear Caroline
Le comte de Bièvre
Bread, Love and Dreams
Maresciallo Carotenuto
1960
Self (archive footage)
The Sign of Venus
Alessio Spano
The Monte Carlo Story
Count Dino della Fiaba
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Commendator Trepossi
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Don Teofilo - governatore
Vittorio D.
Self (archive footage)
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Ambassador of Spain
Lafayette
Bancroft
The Last Judgment
Defense lawyer
Snow Job
Enrico Dolphi
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Spartaco
Frisky
Maresciallo Carotenuto
The Moralist
O.I.M.P. President
Twelve Plus One
Di Seta
Doctor and the Healer
Antonio Locoratolo
The Assassination of Matteotti
Mauro Del Giudice
Il matrimonio
Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
Cesare Celli
Fast and Sexy
Don Luigi
The Bigamist
Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
Player in Venice casino
The Angel Wore Red
General Clave
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
Self (archive footage)
The Cheerful Squadron
Il generale
Manon Lescaut
Renato Des Grieux
Gastone
The Prince
Too Bad She's Bad
Vittorio Stroppiani
Roman Tales
Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
The Inveterate Bachelor
Il professore
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Self (archive footage)
Heart
Master Perboni
Il mondo dei miracoli
Director Pietro Giordani
100 Years of Love
Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
Domenica è sempre domenica
Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
I giorni più belli
Trastevere
Enrico Formichi
I'll Give a Million
Gold
It Happened in the Park
Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
Fathers and Sons
Vincenzo Corallo
Time of Vacation
Aristide Rossi
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self (archive footage)
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
Maresciallo Cenciarelli
Questi ragazzi
Vincenzo
Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
Self - Interviewee
Department Store
Bruno Zacchi
My Wife's Enemy
professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
(archive footage)
Mister Max
Gianni / Max Varaldo
What Scoundrels Men Are!
Bruno
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Self (archive footage)
The Anatomy of Love
Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
Rome: Free City
Il signore distinto
Holiday Island
Engineer Occhipinti
Times Gone By
Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
Cinéma et Réalité
Self
Full Speed
Il professore Giacomo Banti
The Orderly
Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
It Happened in Rome
The Count
The Sinner
Pietro Bandelli
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
Retired
Love and Chatter
Avvocato Bonelli
Ferdinand I King of Naples
Seccano
The Two Marshals
Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
Teresa Venerdì
Dott. Pietro Vignali
Il conte Max
Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
Venetian Honeymoon
Alfredo
Castles in the Air
Riccardo Pietramola
Gran varietà
Veneziani
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
Self (archive footage)
Lost in the Dark
Carmine
Hello Elephant
Carlo Caretti
Our Dreams
Leo
The Guilty
Giorgio Vasari
An Italian in America
Lando Marossi
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Colonel Belalcazar
The Secrets of the Bed
Roberto (segment "Divorce, Le")
Angel in a Taxi
Hanno rapito un uomo
L'attore cinematografico
A Garibaldian in the Convent
Nino Bixio
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Sophia Loren in Rome
Mafia Things
Don Michele
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
(archive footage)
Winter Holidays
Maurizio
Cesare Zavattini
Self (archive footage)
Tomorrow Is Too Late
Professor Landi
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
Love in Rome
le réalisateur
Lisetta
Noi siamo le colonne
Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
Position Wanted
Leonardo Leonardi
Modern Virgin
Antonio Valli
Christmas at Camp 119
Don Vicenzino
Le pillole di Ercole
Colonel Piero Cuocolo
Bread, Love and Andalucia
Tonino
Le due madri
Salvatore
Peddlin' in Society
Il conte Ghirani
The Girl of San Pietro Square
Armando Conforti
But It's Nothing Serious
Memmo Speranza
The secretary for everyone
The Small Miracle
Father Damico
Paris Casino
Alexander Gordy
If I Was Honest
Pietro Kovach
The Cuckoo Clock
Scandal Man
Milord
No One Comes Back
Maurizio
It Happens in Roma
Carlo Reani
Lohengrin
Alfredo
La guardia del corpo
Riccardo, investigatore privato
The Old Lady
Fine dicitore
Ai vostri ordini, signora...
Pietro Haguet
Red Roses
Alberto Verani
La donna che venne dal mare
Console Bordogin
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
Alfredo Hartman
Napoli d'altri tempi
Mario Esposito
Pazza di gioia
Conte Corrado Valli
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
Self
It Always Ends That Way
Alberto Milnar
La bellezza del mondo
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Self
Cannon Serenade
Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
Men and Noblemen
marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
Unknown Men of San Marino
Leo, l'ateo
The Man Who Smiles
Pio Fardella
Un cattivo soggetto
Willy
I Don't Know You Anymore
Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
Das Lied der Sonne
Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
Two Happy Hearts
Mr. Brown
Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
Self
La canzone del sole
Paladino, l'avvocato
Amo te sola
Giovanni
La mazurka di papà
Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
The Clemenceau Affair
Pierre Clémenceau bambino
Il mondo vuole così
Paolo Morelli
Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
Fabrizio Marchini
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
Adriano Lari
Napoli che non muore
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
Self (archive footage)
The Honored Society
Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
Working with De Sica
Self (archive footage)
La compagnia dei matti
Prof. Rosolillo
Samedi soir
Self
Cinépanorama
Self