Vittorio De Sica

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-07-07 (73 years old)

Deathday

1974-11-13

Place of Birth

Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy

Vittorio De Sica

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 w...

Acting

1969

Twelve Plus One

as Di Seta

2007

Working with De Sica

as Self (archive footage)

1953

The Earrings of Madame de...

as Baron Fabrizio Donati

1974

Blood for Dracula

as Marquis Di Fiore

2019

Sophia Loren, a special destiny

as Self (archive footage)

1960

1941

Teresa Venerdì

as Dott. Pietro Vignali

1972

Snow Job

as Enrico Dolphi

1957

Il conte Max

as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo

1940

Maddalena, Zero for Conduct

as Alfredo Hartman

1960

It Started in Naples

as Mario Vitale

1954

Too Bad She's Bad

as Vittorio Stroppiani

1973

The Assassination of Matteotti

as Mauro Del Giudice

1935

Amo te sola

as Giovanni

1968

The Shoes of the Fisherman

as Cardinal Rinaldi

1957

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti

1952

Times Gone By

as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")

2010

1960

as Self (archive footage)

1957

A Farewell to Arms

as Major Rinaldi

1960

The Battle of Austerlitz

as le pape Pie VII

1955

The Miller's Beautiful Wife

as Don Teofilo - governatore

1956

1959

The Moralist

as O.I.M.P. President

1939

Castles in the Air

as Riccardo Pietramola

1954

Gran varietà

as Veneziani

1958

Domenica è sempre domenica

as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi

1946

Peddlin' in Society

as Il conte Ghirani

1954

The Gold of Naples

as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")

1955

Scandal in Sorrento

as Maresciallo Carotenuto

1953

Bread, Love and Dreams

as Maresciallo Carotenuto

1955

The Sign of Venus

as Alessio Spano

1960

Love in Rome

as le réalisateur

1951

Position Wanted

as Leonardo Leonardi

1961

The Two Marshals

as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone

1954

Frisky

as Maresciallo Carotenuto

1961

The Last Judgment

as Defense lawyer

1937

Mister Max

as Gianni / Max Varaldo

1966

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

as Commendator Trepossi

1954

The Anatomy of Love

as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio

1959

Winter Holidays

as Maurizio

1956

The Monte Carlo Story

as Count Dino della Fiaba

1954

The Secrets of the Bed

as Roberto (segment "Divorce, Le")

1960

The Angel Wore Red

as General Clave

1967

An Italian in America

as Lando Marossi

1943

1934

Full Speed

as Il professore Giacomo Banti

1947

1957

Doctor and the Healer

as Antonio Locoratolo

1957

Fathers and Sons

as Vincenzo Corallo

1938

Hanno rapito un uomo

as L'attore cinematografico

1936

But It's Nothing Serious

as Memmo Speranza

1954

100 Years of Love

as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")

1957

Holiday Island

as Engineer Occhipinti

1957

Paris Casino

as Alexander Gordy

1956

Noi siamo le colonne

as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato

1958

Cannon Serenade

as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän

1940

Red Roses

as Alberto Verani

1939

1971

Mafia Things

as Don Michele

1932

Two Happy Hearts

as Mr. Brown

1932

The Old Lady

as Fine dicitore

1939

Department Store

as Bruno Zacchi

1957

La donna che venne dal mare

as Console Bordogin

1941

2009

Vittorio D.

as Self (archive footage)

1952

Hello Elephant

as Carlo Caretti

1972

1968

Dear Caroline

as Le comte de Bièvre

1936

Lohengrin

as Alfredo

1917

The Clemenceau Affair

as Pierre Clémenceau bambino

1937

Questi ragazzi

as Vincenzo

1959

My Wife's Enemy

as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni

1945

2001

That's Life: Vittorio De Sica

as Self (archive footage)

1955

It Happens in Roma

as Carlo Reani

1946

Il mondo vuole così

as Paolo Morelli

1958

Love and Chatter

as Avvocato Bonelli

1945

1960

Gastone

as The Prince

1961

The Orderly

as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi

1959

1957

1957

The Guilty

as Giorgio Vasari

1937

The Man Who Smiles

as Pio Fardella

1942

If I Was Honest

as Pietro Kovach

1956

Time of Vacation

as Aristide Rossi

1958

Fast and Sexy

as Don Luigi

2022

The Garden That Doesn't Exist

as Self (archive footage)

1940

The Sinner

as Pietro Bandelli

2021

2021

We Are Cinema

as Self (archive footage)

1961

1938

La mazurka di papà

as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro

1972

Scandal Man

as Milord

1948

1936

I Don't Know You Anymore

as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli

1934

La canzone del sole

as Paladino, l'avvocato

1947

Christmas at Camp 119

as Don Vicenzino

1933

Das Lied der Sonne

as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino

1962

Lafayette

as Bancroft

1973

Storia de fratelli e de cortelli

as Maresciallo Cenciarelli

1958

The Inveterate Bachelor

as Il professore

1958

1959

Il mondo dei miracoli

as Director Pietro Giordani

1950

Tomorrow Is Too Late

as Professor Landi

1948

Heart

as Master Perboni

1966

After the Fox

as Himself

1954

Il matrimonio

as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov

1966

1980

My Name Is Anna Magnani

as Self (archive footage)

1961

The Honored Society

as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'

1954

The Cheerful Squadron

as Il generale

1959

2005

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

as Self (archive footage)

1960

Le pillole di Ercole

as Colonel Piero Cuocolo

1946

Rome: Free City

as Il signore distinto

1940

Manon Lescaut

as Renato Des Grieux

1938

Le due madri

as Salvatore

1959

General Della Rovere

as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'

1971

Trastevere

as Enrico Formichi

1960

Three Etc.'s and the Colonel

as Colonel Belalcazar

1971

1959

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)

1959

Men and Noblemen

as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola

1962

Eva

as (uncredited)

1954

Modern Virgin

as Antonio Valli

1938

Napoli d'altri tempi

as Mario Esposito

1953

It Happened in the Park

as Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)

1956

The Bigamist

as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince

1955

Roman Tales

as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer

1928

La compagnia dei matti

as Prof. Rosolillo

1939

It Always Ends That Way

as Alberto Milnar

1940

Pazza di gioia

as Conte Corrado Valli

2003

Cesare Zavattini

as Self (archive footage)

1973

The Small Miracle

as Father Damico

1974

We All Loved Each Other So Much

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1942

La guardia del corpo

as Riccardo, investigatore privato

Production

1970

Sunflower

as Director

1952

Umberto D.

as Director

1948

Bicycle Thieves

as Screenplay

1948

Bicycle Thieves

as Director

1948

Bicycle Thieves

as Producer

1960

Two Women

as Director

1967

The Witches

as Director

1941

Teresa Venerdì

as Director

1951

Miracle in Milan

as Director

1967

1946

Shoeshine

as Director

1962

Boccaccio '70

as Director

1964

1966

After the Fox

as Director

1963

The Boom

as Director

1954

1958

Bread, Love and Andalucia

as Original Music Composer

1973

A Brief Vacation

as Director

1961

1968

1943

Our Dreams

as Screenplay

1974

The Voyage

as Director

1970

The Couples

as Director

1956

The Roof

as Director

1972

1965

1940

Red Roses

as Director

1942

If I Was Honest

as Screenplay

1945

1952

Hello Elephant

as Producer

1954

The Gold of Naples

as Screenplay

1947

Lost in the Dark

as Screenplay

1951

Miracle in Milan

as Screenplay

1951

Miracle in Milan

as Producer

1947

1952

Umberto D.

as Producer

1956

The Roof

as Producer

1945

The Gate of Heaven

as Screenplay

1958

Fast and Sexy

as Supervising Technical Director

1966

A Young World

as Director

1948

Heart

as Director

1970

Io e Dio

as Producer

1958

Fast and Sexy

as Original Music Composer

1941

Teresa Venerdì

as Screenplay

1958

Fast and Sexy

as Co-Director

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