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.
2022 | The Garden That Doesn't Exist as Self (archive footage) |
2021 | Noi siamo cinema as Self (archive footage) |
2021 | Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita as Self (archive footage) |
2019 | Sophia Loren, une destinée particulière 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) |
2005 | Cineastes contra magnats as Self (archive footage) |
2004 | Come inguaiammo il cinema italiano - La vera storia di Franco e Ciccio as (archive footage) |
2003 | Cesare Zavattini as Self (archive footage) |
2001 | Così è la vita: Vittorio De Sica as Self (archive footage) |
1985 | Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano as Self |
1980 | Io sono Anna Magnani as Self (archive footage) |
1975 | Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca as (archive footage) |
1974 | Birbirimizi Öyle Çok Sevmiştik Ki as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
1974 | Blood for Dracula as Marquis Di Fiore |
1973 | Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene |
1973 | Il delitto Matteotti as Mauro Del Giudice |
1973 | Storia de fratelli e de cortelli as Maresciallo Cenciarelli |
1973 | The Small Miracle as Father Damico |
1972 | Le avventure di Pinocchio as giudice |
1972 | L'Odeur des fauves as Milord |
1972 | Snow Job as Enrico Dolphi |
1972 | Ettore lo fusto as Giove |
1971 | Siamo tutti in libertà provvisoria |
1971 | Trastevere as Enrico Formichi |
1971 | Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente as Player in Venice casino |
1971 | Cose di Cosa Nostra as Don Michele |
1969 | 12 + 1 as Di Seta |
1969 | If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium as Shoemaker |
1968 | The Shoes of the Fisherman as Cardinal Rinaldi |
1968 | Caroline chérie as Le comte de Bièvre |
1968 | The Biggest Bundle of Them All as Cesare Celli |
1967 | Un italiano in America as Lando Marossi |
1967 | Cinéma et Réalité as Self |
1966 | Gli altri, gli altri e noi as Retired |
1966 | Sevimli Mahkûm as Himself |
1966 | Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti as Self - Interviewee |
1966 | Io, io, io... e gli altri as Commendator Trepossi |
1965 | Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde as Self |
1965 | The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders as der Graf |
1964 | Sophia Loren in Rome |
1962 | Eva as (uncredited) |
1962 | La Fayette as Bancroft |
1961 | I 2 marescialli as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone |
1961 | Gli attendenti as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi |
1961 | Le Meraviglie di Aladino as Genie |
1961 | Il giudizio universale as Defense lawyer |
1961 | Vive Henri IV... Vive l'amour as Ambassador of Spain |
1961 | L'onorata società as Salvatore il 'Capintesta' |
1960 | Un amore a Roma as le réalisateur |
1960 | Il vigile as Il sindaco |
1960 | The Millionairess as Joe |
1960 | Le pillole di Ercole as Colonel Piero Cuocolo |
1960 | Le tre eccetera del colonnello as Colonel Belalcazar |
1960 | It Started in Naples as Mario Vitale |
1960 | Austerlitz as le pape Pie VII |
1960 | The Angel Wore Red as General Clave |
1960 | Gastone as The Prince |
1959 | Napoli Kralı I. Ferdinand as Seccano |
1959 | Il generale Della Rovere as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi' |
1959 | Il moralista as O.I.M.P. President |
1959 | Il mondo dei miracoli as Director Pietro Giordani |
1959 | Vacanze d'inverno as Maurizio |
1959 | Uomini e nobiluomini as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola |
1959 | Il nemico di mia moglie as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni |
1959 | Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited) |
1959 | Nel blu dipinto di blu as Spartaco |
1959 | La prima notte as Alfredo |
1958 | Pane, amore e Andalusia as Tonino |
1958 | La ragazza di Piazza San Pietro as Armando Conforti |
1958 | Gli zitelloni as Il professore |
1958 | Ballerina e Buon Dio |
1958 | Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina as Self |
1958 | Pezzo, capopezzo e capitano as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän |
1958 | Anna di Brooklyn as Don Luigi |
1958 | Domenica è sempre domenica as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi |
1958 | Amore e chiacchiere as Avvocato Bonelli |
1957 | Totò, Vittorio e la dottoressa as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti |
1957 | Vacanze a Ischia as Engineer Occhipinti |
1957 | A Farewell to Arms as Major Rinaldi |
1957 | ll medico e lo stregone as Antonio Locoratolo |
1957 | La donna che venne dal mare as Console Bordogin |
1957 | Casino de Paris as Alexander Gordy |
1957 | Il conte Max as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo |
1957 | Souvenir d'Italie as The Count |
1957 | I colpevoli as Giorgio Vasari |
1957 | Padri e figli as Vincenzo Corallo |
1956 | Noi siamo le colonne as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato |
1956 | Montecarlo as Count Dino della Fiaba |
1956 | Tempo di villeggiatura as Aristide Rossi |
1956 | Oğlum Neron as Seneca |
1956 | I giorni più belli |
1956 | Il Bigamo as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince |
1955 | Aşk ve Ekmek as Maresciallo Carotenuto |
1955 | Racconti romani as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer |
1955 | La bella mugnaia as Don Teofilo - governatore |
1955 | Gli ultimi cinque minuti as Carlo Reani |
1955 | Venüs'ün İşareti as Alessio Spano |
1954 | Peccato che sia una canaglia as Vittorio Stroppiani |
1954 | Ekmek, Aşk ve Kıskançlık as Maresciallo Carotenuto |
1954 | Allegro squadrone as Il generale |
1954 | L'oro di Napoli as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori") |
1954 | Vergine moderna as Antonio Valli |
1954 | Secrets d'alcôve as Roberto (segment "Divorce, Le") |
1954 | Tempi nostri - Zibaldone n. 2 as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio |
1954 | Gran varietà as Veneziani |
1954 | Cento anni d'amore as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin") |
1954 | Il matrimonio as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov |
1953 | Aşk ve Hayal as Maresciallo Carotenuto |
1953 | Villa Borghese as Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese) |
1953 | Madame d...'nün Küpeleri as Baron Fabrizio Donati |
1952 | Altri tempi - Zibaldone n. 1 as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine") |
1952 | Buongiorno, elefante! as Carlo Caretti |
1951 | Cameriera bella presenza offresi... as Leonardo Leonardi |
1950 | Domani è troppo tardi as Professor Landi |
1948 | Cuore as Master Perboni |
1948 | Lo sconosciuto di San Marino as Leo, l'ateo |
1947 | Natale al campo 119 as Don Vicenzino |
1947 | Sperduti nel buio as Carmine |
1946 | Abbasso la ricchezza! as Il conte Ghirani |
1946 | Roma città libera as Il signore distinto |
1946 | Il mondo vuole così as Paolo Morelli |
1945 | Lo sbaglio di essere vivo as Adriano Lari |
1945 | Nessuno torna indietro as Maurizio |
1943 | I nostri sogni as Leo |
1942 | Un garibaldino al convento as Nino Bixio |
1942 | Se io fossi onesto as Pietro Kovach |
1942 | La guardia del corpo as Riccardo, investigatore privato |
1941 | Teresa Venerdì as Dott. Pietro Vignali |
1941 | L'avventuriera del piano di sopra as Fabrizio Marchini |
1940 | Maddalena... zero in condotta as Alfredo Hartman |
1940 | Rose scarlatte as Alberto Verani |
1940 | Pazza di gioia as Conte Corrado Valli |
1940 | Manon Lescaut as Renato Des Grieux |
1940 | La peccatrice as Pietro Bandelli |
1939 | Finisce sempre così as Alberto Milnar |
1939 | I grandi magazzini as Bruno Zacchi |
1939 | Castelli in aria as Riccardo Pietramola |
1939 | Ai vostri ordini, signora... as Pietro Haguet |
1939 | Napoli che non muore |
1938 | Le due madri as Salvatore |
1938 | Hanno rapito un uomo as L'attore cinematografico |
1938 | L'orologio a cucù |
1938 | La mazurka di papà as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro |
1938 | Napoli d'altri tempi as Mario Esposito |
1937 | Il signor Max as Gianni / Max Varaldo |
1937 | L'uomo che sorride as Pio Fardella |
1937 | Questi ragazzi as Vincenzo |
1936 | Ma non è una cosa seria as Memmo Speranza |
1936 | Non ti conosco più as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli |
1936 | Lohengrin as Alfredo |
1935 | Amo te sola as Giovanni |
1935 | Darò un milione as Gold |
1934 | Tempo massimo as Il professore Giacomo Banti |
1934 | La canzone del sole as Paladino, l'avvocato |
1933 | Das Lied der Sonne as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino |
1933 | Lisetta |
1933 | Un cattivo soggetto as Willy |
1932 | La segretaria per tutti |
1932 | Gli uomini, che mascalzoni... as Bruno |
1932 | Due cuori felici as Mr. Brown |
1932 | La vecchia signora as Fine dicitore |
1928 | La compagnia dei matti as Prof. Rosolillo |
1927 | La bellezza del mondo |
1917 | Il processo Clémenceau as Pierre Clémenceau bambino |
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