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