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
- 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
- The Sons of His Mistress ... (Author)
- Working with De Sica as Self (archive footage)
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 Assassination of Matteotti as Mauro Del Giudice
- A Brief Vacation ... (Director)
- Storia de fratelli e de cortelli as Maresciallo Cenciarelli
- Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
- The Small Miracle as Father Damico
1972
- The Adventures of Pinocchio as Giudice
- The Adventures of Pinocchio as giudice
- Hector the Mighty as Giove
- Scandal Man as Milord
- We'll Call Him Andrea ... (Director)
- Snow Job as Enrico Dolphi
1971
- Samedi soir as Self
- Birth of the Republic ... (Director)
- I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear as Player in Venice casino
- We Are All in Temporary Liberty as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
- Trastevere as Enrico Formichi
- Mafia Things as Don Michele
1970
- Sunflower ... (Director)
- The Couples ... (Director)
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis ... (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
- Dear Caroline as Le comte de Bièvre
- A Place for Lovers ... (Director)
- The Biggest Bundle of Them All as Cesare Celli
1967
- Woman Times Seven ... (Director)
- The Witches ... (Director)
- Lionpower from MGM as Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Cinéma et Réalité as Self
- An Italian in America as Lando Marossi
1966
- After the Fox as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
- Me, Me, Me... and the Others as Commendator Trepossi
- A Young World ... (Director)
- Gli altri, gli altri e noi as Retired
- 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)
- Lykke og krone
- Lafayette as Bancroft
- Eva as (uncredited)
- The Condemned of Altona ... (Director)
1961
- The Wonders of Aladdin as Genie
- The Last Judgment as Defense lawyer
- Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! as Ambassador of Spain
- 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 Traffic Policeman as Il sindaco
- The Angel Wore Red as General Clave
- Love in Rome as le réalisateur
- Gastone as The Prince
- Three Etc.'s and the Colonel as Colonel Belalcazar
- Le pillole di Ercole as Colonel Piero Cuocolo
1959
- The Four Just Men as Ricco Poccari
- General Della Rovere as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
- Ferdinand I King of Naples as Seccano
- Venetian Honeymoon as Alfredo
- The Moralist as O.I.M.P. President
- Winter Holidays as Maurizio
- Men and Noblemen as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
- Il mondo dei miracoli as Director Pietro Giordani
- Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
- My Wife's Enemy as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
- Nel blu dipinto di blu as Spartaco
1958
- Fast and Sexy as Don Luigi
- Cannon Serenade as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
- Bread, Love and Andalucia as Tonino
- The Inveterate Bachelor as Il professore
- Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina as Self
- Love and Chatter as Avvocato Bonelli
- Angel in a Taxi
- The Girl of San Pietro Square as Armando Conforti
- Domenica è sempre domenica as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
1957
- A Farewell to Arms as Major Rinaldi
- It Happened in Rome as The Count
- Fathers and Sons as Vincenzo Corallo
- Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
- Holiday Island as Engineer Occhipinti
- Doctor and the Healer as Antonio Locoratolo
- The Guilty as Giorgio Vasari
- The Woman Who Came from the Sea as Console Bordogin
- Il conte Max as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
- Paris Casino as Alexander Gordy
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- The Roof ... (Director)
- Nero's Mistress as Seneca
- The Monte Carlo Story as Count Dino della Fiaba
- The Bigamist as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
- Noi siamo le colonne as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
- Time of Vacation as Aristide Rossi
- I giorni più belli
1955
- Roman Tales as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
- The Miller's Beautiful Wife as Don Teofilo - governatore
- The Sign of Venus as Alessio Spano
- Scandal in Sorrento as Maresciallo Carotenuto
- It Happens in Roma as Carlo Reani
1954
- The Gold of Naples as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
- Too Bad She's Bad as Vittorio Stroppiani
- 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 Anatomy of Love as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
- The Cheerful Squadron as General
- Il matrimonio as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
- Gran varietà as Veneziani
- Modern Virgin as Antonio Valli
1953
- Indiscretion of an American Wife ... (Director)
- The Earrings of Madame de... as Baron Fabrizio Donati
- It Happened in the Park as Arturo Cavazzuti (segment "Incidente a Villa Borghese")
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- A Garibaldian in the Convent as Nino Bixio
- If I Was Honest as Pietro Kovach
- 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
- Red Roses as Alberto Verani
- The Sinner as Pietro Bandelli
- Pazza di gioia as Conte Corrado Valli
- Manon Lescaut as Renato Des Grieux
- Maddalena, Zero for Conduct as Alfredo Hartman
1939
- Department Store as Bruno Zacchi
- Castles in the Air as Riccardo Pietramola
- It Always Ends That Way as Alberto Milnar
- Ai vostri ordini, signora... as Pietro Haguet
- Napoli che non muore
1938
- The Cuckoo Clock
- 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
- Hanno rapito un uomo as L'attore cinematografico
1937
- Mister Max as Gianni / Max Varaldo
- The Man Who Smiles as Pio Fardella
- Questi ragazzi as Vincenzo
1936
- I Don't Know You Anymore as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
- Lohengrin as Alfredo
- But It's Nothing Serious as Memmo Speranza
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
- Two Happy Hearts as Mr. Brown
- The Old Lady as Fine dicitore
- The Secretary for Everyone
1928
- La compagnia dei matti as Prof. Rosolillo
1917
- The Clemenceau Affair as Pierre Clémenceau bambino