Vittorio De Sica
Directing
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
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movieThe Voyage
1974
Director
movieA Brief Vacation
1973
Director
movieWe'll Call Him Andrea
1972
Director
tvBirth of the Republic
1971
Director
movieThe Couples
1970
Director
movieSunflower
1970
Director
movieA Place for Lovers
1968
Director
movieWoman Times Seven
1967
Director
movieThe Witches
1967
Director
movieAfter the Fox
1966
Director
movieA Young World
1966
Director
movieMarriage Italian Style
1964
Director
movieThe Boom
1963
Director
movieThe Condemned of Altona
1962
Director
movieBoccaccio '70
1962
Director
movieThe Last Judgment
1961
Director
movieTwo Women
1960
Director
movieFast and Sexy
1958
Co-Director
movieThe Roof
1956
Director
movieThe Gold of Naples
1954
Director
movieUmberto D.
1952
Director
movieMiracle in Milan
1951
Director
movieBicycle Thieves
1948
Director
movieHeart
1948
Director
movieShoeshine
1946
Director
movieThe Gates of Heaven
1945
Director
movieTeresa Venerdì
1941
Director
movieRed Roses
1940
Director
Acting176
movieVittorio De Sica: Staging Life
2026
Self (Archive Footage)
movieThe Garden That Doesn't Exist
2022
Self (archive footage)
movieWe Are Cinema
2021
Self (archive footage)
movieCinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
Self (archive footage)
movieSophia Loren, a special destiny
2019
Self (archive footage)
movie1960
2010
Self (archive footage)
movieVittorio D.
2009
Self (archive footage)
movieWorking with De Sica
2007
Self (archive footage)
movieFilmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005
Self (archive footage)
movieHow We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
(archive footage)
movieCesare Zavattini
2003
Self (archive footage)
movieThat's Life: Vittorio De Sica
2001
Self (archive footage)
movieMy Name Is Anna Magnani
1980
Self (archive footage)
movieUn sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
1975
(archive footage)
movieWe All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieBlood for Dracula
1974
Marquis Di Fiore
movieThe Assassination of Matteotti
1973
Mauro Del Giudice
movieStoria de fratelli e de cortelli
1973
Maresciallo Cenciarelli
movieThe Small Miracle
1973
Father Damico
movieScandal Man
1972
Milord
movieSnow Job
1972
Enrico Dolphi
movieWe Are All in Temporary Liberty
1971
Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
movieTrastevere
1971
Enrico Formichi
movieI Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
1971
Player in Venice casino
movieMafia Things
1971
Don Michele
movieTwelve Plus One
1969
Di Seta
movieThe Shoes of the Fisherman
1968
Cardinal Rinaldi
movieDear Caroline
1968
Le comte de Bièvre
movieThe Biggest Bundle of Them All
1968
Cesare Celli
movieAn Italian in America
1967
Lando Marossi
movieLionpower from MGM
1967
Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieAfter the Fox
1966
Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
movieMan of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
1966
Self - Interviewee
movieMe, Me, Me... and the Others
1966
Commendator Trepossi
movieEva
1962
(uncredited)
movieLafayette
1962
Bancroft
movieThe Two Marshals
1961
Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
movieThe Orderly
1961
Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
movieThe Last Judgment
1961
Defense lawyer
movieLong Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
1961
Ambassador of Spain
movieThe Honored Society
1961
Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
movieLove in Rome
1960
le réalisateur
movieThe Traffic Policeman
1960
Il sindaco
movieLe pillole di Ercole
1960
Colonel Piero Cuocolo
movieThree Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960
Colonel Belalcazar
movieIt Started in Naples
1960
Mario Vitale
movieAusterlitz
1960
le pape Pie VII
movieThe Angel Wore Red
1960
General Clave
movieGastone
1960
The Prince
movieGeneral Della Rovere
1959
Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
tvThe Four Just Men
1959
Ricco Poccari
movieThe Moralist
1959
O.I.M.P. President
movieIl mondo dei miracoli
1959
Director Pietro Giordani
movieWinter Holidays
1959
Maurizio
movieMen and Noblemen
1959
marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
movieMy Wife's Enemy
1959
professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
moviePolicarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
1959
Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
movieNel blu dipinto di blu
1959
Spartaco
movieVenetian Honeymoon
1959
Alfredo
movieThe Girl of San Pietro Square
1958
Armando Conforti
movieThe Inveterate Bachelor
1958
Il professore
movieCannon Serenade
1958
Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
movieFast and Sexy
1958
Don Luigi
movieDomenica è sempre domenica
1958
Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
movieLove and Chatter
1958
Avvocato Bonelli
movieTotò, Vittorio and the Doctor
1957
Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
movieHoliday Island
1957
Engineer Occhipinti
movieA Farewell to Arms
1957
Major Rinaldi
movieDoctor and the Healer
1957
Antonio Locoratolo
movieThe Woman Who Came from the Sea
1957
Console Bordogin
movieParis Casino
1957
Alexander Gordy
movieIl conte Max
1957
Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
movieIt Happened in Rome
1957
The Count
movieThe Guilty
1957
Giorgio Vasari
movieFathers and Sons
1957
Vincenzo Corallo
movieNoi siamo le colonne
1956
Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
movieThe Monte Carlo Story
1956
Count Dino della Fiaba
movieTime of Vacation
1956
Aristide Rossi
movieNero's Mistress
1956
Seneca
movieThe Bigamist
1956
Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
movieScandal in Sorrento
1955
Maresciallo Carotenuto
movieRoman Tales
1955
Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
movieThe Miller's Beautiful Wife
1955
Don Teofilo - governatore
movieIt Happens in Roma
1955
Carlo Reani
movieThe Sign of Venus
1955
Alessio Spano
movieToo Bad She's Bad
1954
Vittorio Stroppiani
movieFrisky
1954
Maresciallo Carotenuto
movieThe Gold of Naples
1954
Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
movieModern Virgin
1954
Antonio Valli
movieThe Secrets of the Bed
1954
Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")
movieThe Anatomy of Love
1954
Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
movieGran varietà
1954
Veneziani
movie100 Years of Love
1954
Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
movieIl matrimonio
1954
Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
movieBread, Love and Dreams
1953
Maresciallo Carotenuto
movieIt Happened in the Park
1953
Arturo Cavazzuti (segment "Incidente a Villa Borghese")
movieThe Earrings of Madame de...
1953
Baron Fabrizio Donati
movieTimes Gone By
1952
Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
movieHello Elephant
1952
Carlo Caretti
moviePosition Wanted
1951
Leonardo Leonardi
movieTomorrow Is Too Late
1950
Professor Landi
movieHeart
1948
Master Perboni
movieUnknown Men of San Marino
1948
Leo, l'ateo
movieChristmas at Camp 119
1947
Don Vicenzino
movieLost in the Dark
1947
Carmine
moviePeddlin' in Society
1946
Il conte Ghirani
movieRome: Free City
1946
Il signore distinto
movieIl mondo vuole così
1946
Paolo Morelli
movieLo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945
Adriano Lari
movieNo One Comes Back
1945
Maurizio
movieLa guardia del corpo
1942
Riccardo, investigatore privato
movieA Garibaldian in the Convent
1942
Nino Bixio
movieIf I Was Honest
1942
Pietro Kovach
movieTeresa Venerdì
1941
Dott. Pietro Vignali
movieThe Adventuress from the Floor Above
1941
Fabrizio Marchini
movieMaddalena, Zero for Conduct
1940
Alfredo Hartman
movieRed Roses
1940
Alberto Verani
moviePazza di gioia
1940
Conte Corrado Valli
movieManon Lescaut
1940
Renato Des Grieux
movieThe Sinner
1940
Pietro Bandelli
movieIt Always Ends That Way
1939
Alberto Milnar
movieDepartment Store
1939
Bruno Zacchi
movieCastles in the Air
1939
Riccardo Pietramola
movieAi vostri ordini, signora...
1939
Pietro Haguet
Le due madri
1938
Salvatore
movieHanno rapito un uomo
1938
L'attore cinematografico
movieLa mazurka di papà
1938
Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
movieNapoli d'altri tempi
1938
Mario Esposito
movieMister Max
1937
Gianni / Max Varaldo
movieThe Man Who Smiles
1937
Pio Fardella
movieBut It's Nothing Serious
1936
Memmo Speranza
movieI Don't Know You Anymore
1936
Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
movieLohengrin
1936
Alfredo
movieAmo te sola
1935
Giovanni
movieFull Speed
1934
Il professore Giacomo Banti
movieLa canzone del sole
1934
Paladino, l'avvocato
movieDas Lied der Sonne
1933
Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
movieLisetta
1933
Fritz Peters
movieTwo Happy Hearts
1932
Mr. Brown
movieThe Old Lady
1932
Fine dicitore
La compagnia dei matti
1928
Prof. Rosolillo
movieThe Clemenceau Affair
1917
Pierre Clémenceau bambino
Writing14
movieThe Gold of Naples
1954
Screenplay
movieMiracle in Milan
1951
Screenplay
movieBicycle Thieves
1948
Screenplay
movieChristmas at Camp 119
1947
Screenplay
movieLost in the Dark
1947
Screenplay
movieThe Gates of Heaven
1945
Screenplay
movieThe Children Are Watching Us
1943
Screenplay
movieOur Dreams
1943
Screenplay
movieA Garibaldian in the Convent
1942
Screenplay
movieIf I Was Honest
1942
Screenplay
movieTeresa Venerdì
1941
Screenplay
Production9
movieIo e Dio
1970
Producer
movieThe Roof
1956
Producer
movieHello Elephant
1952
Producer
movieUmberto D.
1952
Producer
movieMiracle in Milan
1951
Producer
movieBicycle Thieves
1948
Producer
Crew3
movieTokyo Olympiad
1965
Thanks
movieFast and Sexy
1958
Supervising Technical Director
Sound2
movieBread, Love and Andalucia
1958
Original Music Composer
movieFast and Sexy
1958
Original Music Composer