Vittorio De Sica
Born: 1901-07-07 in Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
Died: 1974-11-13
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life as Self (Archive Footage)
2025
- Quelli che il cinema as Self
2022
- The Garden That Doesn't Exist as Self (archive footage)
- Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2021
- We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita as Self (archive footage)
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)
- The Sons of His Mistress ... (Author)
2005
- Filmmakers vs. Tycoons as Self (archive footage)
2004
2003
- Cesare Zavattini as Self (archive footage)
2001
- That's Life: Vittorio De Sica as Self (archive footage)
1985
1980
- My Name Is Anna Magnani as Self (archive footage)
1975
- Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca as (archive footage)
1974
- We All Loved Each Other So Much as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Blood for Dracula as Marquis Di Fiore
- The Voyage ... (Director)
1973
- Storia de fratelli e de cortelli as Maresciallo Cenciarelli
- Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
- The Assassination of Matteotti as Mauro Del Giudice
- A Brief Vacation ... (Director)
- The Small Miracle as Father Damico
1972
- The Adventures of Pinocchio as Giudice
- The Adventures of Pinocchio as giudice
- Scandal Man as Milord
- Hector the Mighty as Giove
- We'll Call Him Andrea ... (Director)
- Snow Job as Enrico Dolphi
1971
- Samedi soir as Self
- We Are All in Temporary Liberty as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
- Birth of the Republic ... (Director)
- Mafia Things as Don Michele
- I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear as Player in Venice casino
- Trastevere as Enrico Formichi
1970
- Sunflower ... (Director)
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis ... (Director)
- The Couples ... (Director)
- Io e Dio ... (Producer)
1969
- If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium as Shoemaker
- Twelve Plus One as Di Seta
1968
- The Shoes of the Fisherman as Cardinal Rinaldi
- The Biggest Bundle of Them All as Cesare Celli
- Dear Caroline as Le comte de Bièvre
- A Place for Lovers ... (Director)
1967
- Woman Times Seven ... (Director)
- The Witches ... (Director)
- Lionpower from MGM as Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)
- An Italian in America as Lando Marossi
- Cinéma et Réalité as Self
1966
- After the Fox as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
- Me, Me, Me... and the Others as Commendator Trepossi
- Gli altri, gli altri e noi as Retired
- A Young World ... (Director)
- Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti as Self - Interviewee
1965
- The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders as der Graf
- Tokyo Olympiad ... (Thanks)
- Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde as Self
1964
- Marriage Italian Style ... (Director)
- Sophia Loren in Rome as Self
1963
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ... (Director)
- The Boom ... (Director)
1962
- Boccaccio '70 ... (Director)
- Lafayette as Bancroft
- The Condemned of Altona ... (Director)
- Eva as (uncredited)
- Lykke og krone as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961
- The Wonders of Aladdin as Genie
- Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! as Ambassador of Spain
- The Last Judgment as Defense lawyer
- The Two Marshals as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
- The Honored Society as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
- The Orderly as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
1960
- Two Women ... (Director)
- Austerlitz as le pape Pie VII
- It Started in Naples as Mario Vitale
- The Millionairess as Joe
- The Angel Wore Red as General Clave
- Love in Rome as le réalisateur
- The Traffic Policeman as Il sindaco
- Le pillole di Ercole as Colonel Piero Cuocolo
- Three Etc.'s and the Colonel as Colonel Belalcazar
- Gastone as The Prince
1959
- The Four Just Men as Ricco Poccari
- General Della Rovere as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
- Ferdinand I King of Naples as Seccano
- Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
- Il mondo dei miracoli as Director Pietro Giordani
- Nel blu dipinto di blu as Spartaco
- My Wife's Enemy as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
- Men and Noblemen as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
- Venetian Honeymoon as Alfredo
- Winter Holidays as Maurizio
- The Moralist as O.I.M.P. President
1958
- Cannon Serenade as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
- Bread, Love and Andalucia as Tonino
- Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina as Self
- The Girl of San Pietro Square as Armando Conforti
- Fast and Sexy as Don Luigi
- Angel in a Taxi
- The Inveterate Bachelor as Il professore
- Domenica è sempre domenica as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
- Love and Chatter as Avvocato Bonelli
1957
- A Farewell to Arms as Major Rinaldi
- Doctor and the Healer as Antonio Locoratolo
- The Woman Who Came from the Sea as Console Bordogin
- It Happened in Rome as The Count
- Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
- Il conte Max as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
- Fathers and Sons as Vincenzo Corallo
- Holiday Island as Engineer Occhipinti
- The Guilty as Giorgio Vasari
- Paris Casino as Alexander Gordy
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- The Roof ... (Director)
- The Monte Carlo Story as Count Dino della Fiaba
- I giorni più belli
- Nero's Mistress as Seneca
- Noi siamo le colonne as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
- The Bigamist as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
- Time of Vacation as Aristide Rossi
1955
- The Sign of Venus as Alessio Spano
- Roman Tales as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
- The Miller's Beautiful Wife as Don Teofilo - governatore
- Scandal in Sorrento as Maresciallo Carotenuto
- It Happens in Roma as Carlo Reani
1954
- Too Bad She's Bad as Vittorio Stroppiani
- The Gold of Naples as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
- The Anatomy of Love as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
- Frisky as Maresciallo Carotenuto
- The Secrets of the Bed as Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")
- 100 Years of Love as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
- The Cheerful Squadron as General
- Il matrimonio as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
- Gran varietà as Veneziani
- Modern Virgin as Antonio Valli
1953
- It Happened in the Park as Arturo Cavazzuti (segment "Incidente a Villa Borghese")
- The Earrings of Madame de... as Baron Fabrizio Donati
- Indiscretion of an American Wife ... (Director)
- Bread, Love and Dreams as Maresciallo Carotenuto
1952
- Umberto D. ... (Director)
- Times Gone By as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
- Hello Elephant as Carlo Caretti
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
- Miracle in Milan ... (Director)
- Mamma mia, che impressione! ... (Producer)
- Position Wanted as Leonardo Leonardi
1950
- Tomorrow Is Too Late as Professor Landi
1948
- Bicycle Thieves ... (Screenplay)
- Unknown Men of San Marino as Leo, l'ateo
- Heart as Master Perboni
1947
- Christmas at Camp 119 as Don Vicenzino
- Lost in the Dark as Carmine
1946
- Shoeshine ... (Director)
- Il mondo vuole così as Paolo Morelli
- Rome: Free City as Il signore distinto
- Peddlin' in Society as Il conte Ghirani
1945
- The Gates of Heaven ... (Director)
- Lo sbaglio di essere vivo as Adriano Lari
- No One Comes Back as Maurizio
1943
- The Children Are Watching Us ... (Director)
- Our Dreams as Leo
1942
- If I Was Honest as Pietro Kovach
- A Garibaldian in the Convent as Nino Bixio
- La guardia del corpo as Riccardo, investigatore privato
1941
- The Adventuress from the Floor Above as Fabrizio Marchini
- Teresa Venerdì as Dott. Pietro Vignali
1940
- Red Roses as Alberto Verani
- Maddalena, Zero for Conduct as Alfredo Hartman
- The Sinner as Pietro Bandelli
- Pazza di gioia as Conte Corrado Valli
- Manon Lescaut as Renato Des Grieux
1939
- Napoli che non muore
- Ai vostri ordini, signora... as Pietro Haguet
- It Always Ends That Way as Alberto Milnar
- Castles in the Air as Riccardo Pietramola
- Department Store as Bruno Zacchi
1938
- The Cuckoo Clock
- La mazurka di papà as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
- Napoli d'altri tempi as Mario Esposito
- Hanno rapito un uomo as L'attore cinematografico
- Le due madri as Salvatore
1937
- The Man Who Smiles as Pio Fardella
- Mister Max as Gianni / Max Varaldo
- Questi ragazzi as Vincenzo
1936
- I Don't Know You Anymore as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
- But It's Nothing Serious as Memmo Speranza
- Lohengrin as Alfredo
1935
- I'll Give a Million as Gold
- I Love You Only as Giovanni
1934
- La canzone del sole as Paladino, l'avvocato
- Full Speed as Il professore Giacomo Banti
1933
- Lisetta as Fritz Peters
- Das Lied der Sonne as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
- Un cattivo soggetto as Willy
1932
- What Scoundrels Men Are! as Bruno
- The Secretary for Everyone
- Two Happy Hearts as Mr. Brown
- The Old Lady as Fine dicitore
1928
- La compagnia dei matti as Prof. Rosolillo
1917
- The Clemenceau Affair as Pierre Clémenceau bambino