Place of Birth: Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
Vittorio De Sica
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.
Movie | Cast | Year |
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Twelve Plus One | Di Seta | 1969 |
The Millionairess | Joe | 1960 |
Working with De Sica | Self (archive footage) | 2007 |
Cinéma et Réalité | Self | 1967 |
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium | Shoemaker | 1969 |
The Earrings of Madame de... | Baron Fabrizio Donati | 1953 |
Blood for Dracula | Marquis Di Fiore | 1974 |
Sophia Loren, a special destiny | Self (archive footage) | 2019 |
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio | (archive footage) | 2004 |
The Traffic Policeman | Il sindaco | 1960 |
Teresa Venerdì | Dott. Pietro Vignali | 1941 |
Snow Job | Enrico Dolphi | 1972 |
Il conte Max | Conte Max Orsini Varaldo | 1957 |
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct | Alfredo Hartman | 1940 |
Bread, Love and Andalucia | Tonino | 1958 |
It Started in Naples | Mario Vitale | 1960 |
What Scoundrels Men Are! | Bruno | 1932 |
Too Bad She's Bad | Vittorio Stroppiani | 1954 |
The Assassination of Matteotti | Mauro Del Giudice | 1973 |
Amo te sola | Giovanni | 1935 |
The Shoes of the Fisherman | Cardinal Rinaldi | 1968 |
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor | Marchese Vittorio De Vittti | 1957 |
Times Gone By | Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine") | 1952 |
1960 | Self (archive footage) | 2010 |
A Farewell to Arms | Major Rinaldi | 1957 |
The Battle of Austerlitz | le pape Pie VII | 1960 |
The Miller's Beautiful Wife | Don Teofilo - governatore | 1955 |
Nero's Mistress | Seneca | 1956 |
The Moralist | O.I.M.P. President | 1959 |
Castles in the Air | Riccardo Pietramola | 1939 |
Gran varietà | Veneziani | 1954 |
Domenica è sempre domenica | Il 'comandante' Gastaldi | 1958 |
Peddlin' in Society | Il conte Ghirani | 1946 |
Napoli che non muore | 1939 | |
The Gold of Naples | Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori") | 1954 |
Scandal in Sorrento | Maresciallo Carotenuto | 1955 |
Bread, Love and Dreams | Maresciallo Carotenuto | 1953 |
The Sign of Venus | Alessio Spano | 1955 |
Love in Rome | le réalisateur | 1960 |
Position Wanted | Leonardo Leonardi | 1951 |
The Two Marshals | Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone | 1961 |
Frisky | Maresciallo Carotenuto | 1954 |
Ferdinand I King of Naples | Seccano | 1959 |
The Last Judgment | Defense lawyer | 1961 |
Mister Max | Gianni / Max Varaldo | 1937 |
Me, Me, Me... and the Others | Commendator Trepossi | 1966 |
The Anatomy of Love | Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio | 1954 |
Winter Holidays | Maurizio | 1959 |
The Biggest Bundle of Them All | Cesare Celli | 1968 |
The Monte Carlo Story | Count Dino della Fiaba | 1956 |
The Secrets of the Bed | Roberto | 1954 |
The Angel Wore Red | General Clave | 1960 |
An Italian in America | Lando Marossi | 1967 |
Our Dreams | Leo | 1943 |
Full Speed | Il professore Giacomo Banti | 1934 |
Lost in the Dark | Carmine | 1947 |
Doctor and the Healer | Antonio Locoratolo | 1957 |
Sophia Loren in Rome | 1964 | |
Lisetta | 1933 | |
Fathers and Sons | Vincenzo Corallo | 1957 |
Hanno rapito un uomo | L'attore cinematografico | 1938 |
But It's Nothing Serious | Memmo Speranza | 1936 |
100 Years of Love | Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin") | 1954 |
Holiday Island | Engineer Occhipinti | 1957 |
Paris Casino | Alexander Gordy | 1957 |
Noi siamo le colonne | Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato | 1956 |
Cannon Serenade | Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän | 1958 |
Red Roses | Alberto Verani | 1940 |
A Garibaldian in the Convent | Nino Bixio | 1942 |
Un cattivo soggetto | Willy | 1933 |
Ai vostri ordini, signora... | Pietro Haguet | 1939 |
I'll Give a Million | Gold | 1935 |
Cose di Cosa Nostra | Don Michele | 1971 |
La bellezza del mondo | 1927 | |
Two Happy Hearts | Mr. Brown | 1932 |
The secretary for everyone | 1932 | |
The Old Lady | Fine dicitore | 1932 |
Department Store | Bruno Zacchi | 1939 |
La donna che venne dal mare | Console Bordogin | 1957 |
The Adventuress from the Floor Above | Fabrizio Marchini | 1941 |
Vittorio D. | Self (archive footage) | 2009 |
Hello Elephant | Carlo Caretti | 1952 |
Hector the Mighty | Giove | 1972 |
Dear Caroline | Le comte de Bièvre | 1968 |
Lohengrin | Alfredo | 1936 |
The Clemenceau Affair | Pierre Clémenceau bambino | 1917 |
Questi ragazzi | Vincenzo | 1937 |
I giorni più belli | 1956 | |
My Wife's Enemy | professor Ottavio Tornabuoni | 1959 |
No One Comes Back | Maurizio | 1945 |
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica | Self (archive footage) | 2001 |
The Wonders of Aladdin | Genie | 1961 |
It Happens in Roma | Carlo Reani | 1955 |
Love and Chatter | Avvocato Bonelli | 1958 |
Il mondo vuole così | Paolo Morelli | 1946 |
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo | Adriano Lari | 1945 |
Gastone | The Prince | 1960 |
The Orderly | Colonnello Filippo Bitossi | 1961 |
Gli altri, gli altri e noi | Retired | 1966 |
Venetian Honeymoon | Alfredo | 1959 |
It Happened in Rome | The Count | 1957 |
The Guilty | Giorgio | 1957 |
The Man Who Smiles | Pio Fardella | 1937 |
If I Was Honest | Pietro Kovach | 1942 |
Time of Vacation | Aristide Rossi | 1956 |
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca | (archive footage) | 1975 |
Fast and Sexy | Don Luigi | 1958 |
The Garden That Doesn't Exist | Self (archive footage) | 2022 |
The Sinner | Pietro Bandelli | 1940 |
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita | Self (archive footage) | 2021 |
We Are Cinema | Self (archive footage) | 2021 |
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! | Ambassador of Spain | 1961 |
La mazurka di papà | Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro | 1938 |
We Are All in Temporary Liberty | 1971 | |
Scandal Man | 1972 | |
Unkown Men of San Marino | Leo, l'ateo | 1948 |
I Don't Know You Anymore | Il dottore Alberto Spinelli | 1936 |
La canzone del sole | Paladino, l'avvocato | 1934 |
Angel in a Taxi | 1958 | |
Christmas at Camp 119 | Don Vicenzino | 1947 |
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders | der Graf | 1965 |
Das Lied der Sonne | Dr. Giuseppe Paladino | 1933 |
Lafayette | Bancroft | 1962 |
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli | Maresciallo Cenciarelli | 1973 |
The Inveterate Bachelor | Il professore | 1958 |
The Girl of San Pietro Square | Armando Conforti | 1958 |
The Adventures of Pinocchio | giudice | 1972 |
Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde | Self | 1965 |
Il mondo dei miracoli | Director Pietro Giordani | 1959 |
Tomorrow Is Too Late | Professor Landi | 1950 |
Heart | Master Perboni | 1948 |
After the Fox | Himself | 1966 |
Il matrimonio | Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov | 1954 |
Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti | Self - Interviewee | 1966 |
My Name Is Anna Magnani | Self (archive footage) | 1980 |
L'onorata società | Salvatore il 'Capintesta' | 1961 |
The Cheerful Squadron | Il generale | 1954 |
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema | Self | 1985 |
The Cuckoo Clock | 1938 | |
Nel blu dipinto di blu | Spartaco | 1959 |
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons | Self (archive footage) | 2005 |
Le pillole di Ercole | Colonel Piero Cuocolo | 1960 |
Rome: Free City | Il signore distinto | 1946 |
Manon Lescaut | Renato Des Grieux | 1940 |
Le due madri | Salvatore | 1938 |
General Della Rovere | Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi' | 1959 |
Trastevere | Enrico Formichi | 1971 |
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel | Colonel Belalcazar | 1960 |
I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear | Player in Venice casino | 1971 |
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura | Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited) | 1959 |
Men and Noblemen | marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola | 1959 |
Eva | (uncredited) | 1962 |
Modern Virgin | Antonio Valli | 1954 |
Napoli d'altri tempi | Mario Esposito | 1938 |
It Happened in the Park | Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese) | 1953 |
Roman Tales | Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer | 1955 |
The Bigamist | Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince | 1956 |
La compagnia dei matti | Prof. Rosolillo | 1928 |
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina | Self | 1958 |
It Always Ends That Way | Alberto Milnar | 1939 |
Pazza di gioia | Conte Corrado Valli | 1940 |
Cesare Zavattini | Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
The Small Miracle | Father Damico | 1973 |
Series | Cast | Year |
Hallmark Hall of Fame | 1951 | |
The Four Just Men | Ricco Poccari | 1959 |
Cinépanorama | Self | 1956 |
The Adventures of Pinocchio | Giudice | 1972 |
Samedi soir | Self | 1971 |