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