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
- Hector the Mighty as Giove
- Scandal Man as Milord
- The Adventures of Pinocchio as giudice
- Snow Job as Enrico Dolphi
- We'll Call Him Andrea ... (Director)
1971
- Samedi soir as Self
- 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
- We Are All in Temporary Liberty as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
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
- Dear Caroline as Le comte de Bièvre
- The Shoes of the Fisherman as Cardinal Rinaldi
- The Biggest Bundle of Them All as Cesare Celli
- A Place for Lovers ... (Director)
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
- After the Fox as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
- A Young World ... (Director)
- Me, Me, Me... and the Others as Commendator Trepossi
- 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)
- Lafayette as Bancroft
- Lykke og krone
- The Condemned of Altona ... (Director)
- Eva as (uncredited)
1961
- The Last Judgment as Defense lawyer
- The Wonders of Aladdin as Genie
- The Two Marshals as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
- Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! as Ambassador of Spain
- The Orderly as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
- The Honored Society as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
1960
- Two Women ... (Director)
- The Battle of 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
- Le pillole di Ercole as Colonel Piero Cuocolo
- Three Etc.'s and the Colonel as Colonel Belalcazar
1959
- The Four Just Men as Ricco Poccari
- General Della Rovere as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
- Venetian Honeymoon as Alfredo
- Ferdinand I King of Naples as Seccano
- My Wife's Enemy as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
- The Moralist as O.I.M.P. President
- Winter Holidays as Maurizio
- Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
- Men and Noblemen as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
- Il mondo dei miracoli as Director Pietro Giordani
- Nel blu dipinto di blu as Spartaco
1958
- The Inveterate Bachelor as Il professore
- Fast and Sexy as Don Luigi
- Cannon Serenade as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
- Domenica è sempre domenica as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
- Love and Chatter as Avvocato Bonelli
- Angel in a Taxi
- Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina as Self
- Bread, Love and Andalucia as Tonino
- The Girl of San Pietro Square as Armando Conforti
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
- Paris Casino as Alexander Gordy
- Il conte Max as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
- Holiday Island as Engineer Occhipinti
- Doctor and the Healer as Antonio Locoratolo
- The Woman Who Came from the Sea as Console Bordogin
- The Guilty as Giorgio Vasari
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- The Monte Carlo Story as Count Dino della Fiaba
- The Roof ... (Director)
- Noi siamo le colonne as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
- Nero's Mistress as Seneca
- The Bigamist as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
- 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")
- The Cheerful Squadron as General
- The Secrets of the Bed as Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")
- Too Bad She's Bad as Vittorio Stroppiani
- 100 Years of Love as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
- Il matrimonio as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
- Frisky as Maresciallo Carotenuto
- Gran varietà as Veneziani
- The Anatomy of Love as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
- 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)
- 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
- If I Was Honest as Pietro Kovach
- La guardia del corpo as Riccardo, investigatore privato
- A Garibaldian in the Convent as Nino Bixio
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
- Maddalena, Zero for Conduct as Alfredo Hartman
- Manon Lescaut as Renato Des Grieux
- Pazza di gioia as Conte Corrado Valli
1939
- Castles in the Air as Riccardo Pietramola
- Ai vostri ordini, signora... as Pietro Haguet
- It Always Ends That Way as Alberto Milnar
- Department Store as Bruno Zacchi
- 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
- But It's Nothing Serious as Memmo Speranza
- Lohengrin as Alfredo
- I Don't Know You Anymore as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
1935
- I'll Give a Million as Gold
- Amo te sola as Giovanni
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
- The Secretary for Everyone
- Two Happy Hearts as Mr. Brown
1928
- La compagnia dei matti as Prof. Rosolillo
1917
- The Clemenceau Affair as Pierre Clémenceau bambino