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 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.
Known For
Acting
1969
asDi Seta
1960
asJoe
2007
asSelf (archive footage)
1967
asSelf
1969
asShoemaker
1953
asBaron Fabrizio Donati
1974
asMarquis Di Fiore
2019
asSelf (archive footage)
2004
as(archive footage)
1960
asIl sindaco
1941
asDott. Pietro Vignali
1972
asEnrico Dolphi
1957
asConte Max Orsini Varaldo
1940
asAlfredo Hartman
1958
asTonino
1960
asMario Vitale
1932
asBruno
1954
asVittorio Stroppiani
1973
asMauro Del Giudice
1935
asGiovanni
1968
asCardinal Rinaldi
1957
asMarchese Vittorio De Vittti
1952
asDefense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
2010
asSelf (archive footage)
1957
asMajor Rinaldi
1960
asle pape Pie VII
1955
asDon Teofilo - governatore
1956
asSeneca
1959
asO.I.M.P. President
1939
asRiccardo Pietramola
1954
asVeneziani
1958
asIl 'comandante' Gastaldi
1946
asIl conte Ghirani
1939
as
1954
asIl conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
1955
asMaresciallo Carotenuto
1953
asMaresciallo Carotenuto
1955
asAlessio Spano
1960
asle réalisateur
1951
asLeonardo Leonardi
1961
asMaresciallo Vittorio Cotone
1954
asMaresciallo Carotenuto
1959
asSeccano
1961
asDefense lawyer
1937
asGianni / Max Varaldo
1966
asCommendator Trepossi
1954
asConte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
1959
asMaurizio
1968
asCesare Celli
1956
asCount Dino della Fiaba
1954
asRoberto (segment "Divorce, Le")
1960
asGeneral Clave
1967
asLando Marossi
1943
asLeo
1934
asIl professore Giacomo Banti
1947
asCarmine
1957
asAntonio Locoratolo
1964
as
1933
as
1957
asVincenzo Corallo
1938
asL'attore cinematografico
1936
asMemmo Speranza
1954
asDuke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
1957
asEngineer Occhipinti
1957
asAlexander Gordy
1956
asAlfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
1958
asErnesto de Rossi, Kapitän
1940
asAlberto Verani
1942
asNino Bixio
1933
asWilly
1939
asPietro Haguet
1935
asGold
1971
asDon Michele
1927
as
1932
asMr. Brown
1932
as
1932
asFine dicitore
1939
asBruno Zacchi
1957
asConsole Bordogin
1941
asFabrizio Marchini
2009
asSelf (archive footage)
1952
asCarlo Caretti
1972
asGiove
1968
asLe comte de Bièvre
1936
asAlfredo
1917
asPierre Clémenceau bambino
1937
asVincenzo
1956
as
1959
asprofessor Ottavio Tornabuoni
1945
asMaurizio
2001
asSelf (archive footage)
1961
asGenie
1955
asCarlo Reani
1958
asAvvocato Bonelli
1946
asPaolo Morelli
1945
asAdriano Lari
1960
asThe Prince
1961
asColonnello Filippo Bitossi
1966
asRetired
1959
asAlfredo
1957
asThe Count
1957
asGiorgio Vasari
1937
asPio Fardella
1942
asPietro Kovach
1956
asAristide Rossi
1975
as(archive footage)
1958
asDon Luigi
2022
asSelf (archive footage)
1940
asPietro Bandelli
2021
asSelf (archive footage)
2021
asSelf (archive footage)
1961
asAmbassador of Spain
1938
asStefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
1971
asGiuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
1972
asMilord
1948
asLeo, l'ateo
1936
asIl dottore Alberto Spinelli
1934
asPaladino, l'avvocato
1958
as
1947
asDon Vicenzino
1965
asder Graf
1933
asDr. Giuseppe Paladino
1962
asBancroft
1973
asMaresciallo Cenciarelli
1958
asIl professore
1958
asArmando Conforti
1972
asgiudice
1965
asSelf
1959
asDirector Pietro Giordani
1950
asProfessor Landi
1948
asMaster Perboni
1954
asGregory Stefanovich Smirnov
1966
asSelf - Interviewee
1980
asSelf (archive footage)
1961
asSalvatore il 'Capintesta'
1954
asGeneral
1985
asSelf
1938
as
1959
asSpartaco
2005
asSelf (archive footage)
1960
asColonel Piero Cuocolo
1946
asIl signore distinto
1940
asRenato Des Grieux
1938
asSalvatore
1959
asBardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
1971
asEnrico Formichi
1960
asColonel Belalcazar
1971
asPlayer in Venice casino
1959
asIl prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
1959
asmarchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
1962
as(uncredited)
1954
asAntonio Valli
1938
asMario Esposito
1953
asArturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
1955
asMazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
1956
asHonorable Prince / Attorney Prince
1928
asProf. Rosolillo
1958
asSelf
1939
asAlberto Milnar
1940
asConte Corrado Valli
2003
asSelf (archive footage)
1973
asFather Damico
1974
asSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
1942
asRiccardo, investigatore privato
1973
as
1967
as
1966
asVittorio De Sica (uncredited)
as
asRicco Poccari
asSelf
asGiudice
asSelf
Production
1948
as1958
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1951
as1952
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1951
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1953
as
1952
as
1956
as
1970
asCrew
Directing
1970
as1952
as
1970
as1948
as
1960
as
1967
as1941
as
1963
as1951
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1967
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1946
as1940
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1943
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1962
as
1964
as1966
as
1963
as1954
as1953
as
1973
as1961
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1968
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1974
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1970
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1962
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1972
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1945
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1966
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