Vittorio De Sica
Directing • Born 1901-07-07 – Died 1974-11-13
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
175 credits
Twelve Plus One
Movie • 1969
Di Seta
The Millionairess
Movie • 1960
Joe
Working with De Sica
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Cinéma et Réalité
Movie • 1967
Self
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Movie • 1969
Shoemaker
The Earrings of Madame de...
Movie • 1953
Baron Fabrizio Donati
Blood for Dracula
Movie • 1974
Marquis Di Fiore
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Movie • 2004
(archive footage)
The Traffic Policeman
Movie • 1960
Il sindaco
Teresa Venerdì
Movie • 1941
Dott. Pietro Vignali
Snow Job
Movie • 1972
Enrico Dolphi
Il conte Max
Movie • 1957
Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
Movie • 1940
Alfredo Hartman
Bread, Love and Andalucia
Movie • 1958
Tonino
It Started in Naples
Movie • 1960
Mario Vitale
What Scoundrels Men Are!
Movie • 1932
Bruno
Too Bad She's Bad
Movie • 1954
Vittorio Stroppiani
The Assassination of Matteotti
Movie • 1973
Mauro Del Giudice
Amo te sola
Movie • 1935
Giovanni
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Movie • 1968
Cardinal Rinaldi
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Movie • 1957
Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
Times Gone By
Movie • 1952
Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
1960
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
A Farewell to Arms
Movie • 1957
Major Rinaldi
The Battle of Austerlitz
Movie • 1960
le pape Pie VII
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Movie • 1955
Don Teofilo - governatore
Nero's Mistress
Movie • 1956
Seneca
The Moralist
Movie • 1959
O.I.M.P. President
Castles in the Air
Movie • 1939
Riccardo Pietramola
Gran varietà
Movie • 1954
Veneziani
Domenica è sempre domenica
Movie • 1958
Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
Peddlin' in Society
Movie • 1946
Il conte Ghirani
Napoli che non muore
Movie • 1939
The Gold of Naples
Movie • 1954
Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
Scandal in Sorrento
Movie • 1955
Maresciallo Carotenuto
Bread, Love and Dreams
Movie • 1953
Maresciallo Carotenuto
The Sign of Venus
Movie • 1955
Alessio Spano
Love in Rome
Movie • 1960
le réalisateur
Position Wanted
Movie • 1951
Leonardo Leonardi
The Two Marshals
Movie • 1961
Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
Frisky
Movie • 1954
Maresciallo Carotenuto
Ferdinand I King of Naples
Movie • 1959
Seccano
The Last Judgment
Movie • 1961
Defense lawyer
Mister Max
Movie • 1937
Gianni / Max Varaldo
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Movie • 1966
Commendator Trepossi
The Anatomy of Love
Movie • 1954
Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
Winter Holidays
Movie • 1959
Maurizio
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
Movie • 1968
Cesare Celli
The Monte Carlo Story
Movie • 1956
Count Dino della Fiaba
The Secrets of the Bed
Movie • 1954
Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")
The Angel Wore Red
Movie • 1960
General Clave
An Italian in America
Movie • 1967
Lando Marossi
Our Dreams
Movie • 1943
Leo
Full Speed
Movie • 1934
Il professore Giacomo Banti
Lost in the Dark
Movie • 1947
Carmine
Doctor and the Healer
Movie • 1957
Antonio Locoratolo
Sophia Loren in Rome
Movie • 1964
Self
Lisetta
Movie • 1933
Fritz Peters
Fathers and Sons
Movie • 1957
Vincenzo Corallo
Hanno rapito un uomo
Movie • 1938
L'attore cinematografico
But It's Nothing Serious
Movie • 1936
Memmo Speranza
100 Years of Love
Movie • 1954
Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
Holiday Island
Movie • 1957
Engineer Occhipinti
Paris Casino
Movie • 1957
Alexander Gordy
Noi siamo le colonne
Movie • 1956
Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
Cannon Serenade
Movie • 1958
Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
Red Roses
Movie • 1940
Alberto Verani
A Garibaldian in the Convent
Movie • 1942
Nino Bixio
Un cattivo soggetto
Movie • 1933
Willy
Ai vostri ordini, signora...
Movie • 1939
Pietro Haguet
I'll Give a Million
Movie • 1935
Gold
Mafia Things
Movie • 1971
Don Michele
La bellezza del mondo
Movie • 1927
Two Happy Hearts
Movie • 1932
Mr. Brown
The Secretary for Everyone
Movie • 1932
The Old Lady
Movie • 1932
Fine dicitore
Department Store
Movie • 1939
Bruno Zacchi
The Woman Who Came from the Sea
Movie • 1957
Console Bordogin
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
Movie • 1941
Fabrizio Marchini
Vittorio D.
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Hello Elephant
Movie • 1952
Carlo Caretti
Hector the Mighty
Movie • 1972
Giove
Dear Caroline
Movie • 1968
Le comte de Bièvre
Lohengrin
Movie • 1936
Alfredo
The Clemenceau Affair
Movie • 1917
Pierre Clémenceau bambino
Questi ragazzi
Movie • 1937
Vincenzo
I giorni più belli
Movie • 1956
My Wife's Enemy
Movie • 1959
professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
No One Comes Back
Movie • 1945
Maurizio
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
The Wonders of Aladdin
Movie • 1961
Genie
It Happens in Roma
Movie • 1955
Carlo Reani
Love and Chatter
Movie • 1958
Avvocato Bonelli
Il mondo vuole così
Movie • 1946
Paolo Morelli
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
Movie • 1945
Adriano Lari
Gastone
Movie • 1960
The Prince
The Orderly
Movie • 1961
Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
Movie • 1966
Retired
Venetian Honeymoon
Movie • 1959
Alfredo
It Happened in Rome
Movie • 1957
The Count
The Guilty
Movie • 1957
Giorgio Vasari
The Man Who Smiles
Movie • 1937
Pio Fardella
If I Was Honest
Movie • 1942
Pietro Kovach
Time of Vacation
Movie • 1956
Aristide Rossi
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
Movie • 1975
(archive footage)
Fast and Sexy
Movie • 1958
Don Luigi
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
The Sinner
Movie • 1940
Pietro Bandelli
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Movie • 1961
Ambassador of Spain
La mazurka di papà
Movie • 1938
Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Movie • 1971
Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
Scandal Man
Movie • 1972
Milord
Unknown Men of San Marino
Movie • 1948
Leo, l'ateo
I Don't Know You Anymore
Movie • 1936
Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
La canzone del sole
Movie • 1934
Paladino, l'avvocato
Angel in a Taxi
Movie • 1958
Christmas at Camp 119
Movie • 1947
Don Vicenzino
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Movie • 1965
der Graf
Das Lied der Sonne
Movie • 1933
Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
Lafayette
Movie • 1962
Bancroft
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
Movie • 1973
Maresciallo Cenciarelli
The Inveterate Bachelor
Movie • 1958
Il professore
The Girl of San Pietro Square
Movie • 1958
Armando Conforti
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Movie • 1972
giudice
Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
Movie • 1965
Self
Il mondo dei miracoli
Movie • 1959
Director Pietro Giordani
Tomorrow Is Too Late
Movie • 1950
Professor Landi
Heart
Movie • 1948
Master Perboni
Il matrimonio
Movie • 1954
Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
Movie • 1966
Self - Interviewee
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Movie • 1980
Self (archive footage)
The Honored Society
Movie • 1961
Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
The Cheerful Squadron
Movie • 1954
General
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Movie • 1985
Self
The Cuckoo Clock
Movie • 1938
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Movie • 1959
Spartaco
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Le pillole di Ercole
Movie • 1960
Colonel Piero Cuocolo
Rome: Free City
Movie • 1946
Il signore distinto
Manon Lescaut
Movie • 1940
Renato Des Grieux
Le due madri
Movie • 1938
Salvatore
General Della Rovere
Movie • 1959
Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
Trastevere
Movie • 1971
Enrico Formichi
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Movie • 1960
Colonel Belalcazar
I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
Movie • 1971
Player in Venice casino
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Movie • 1959
Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
Men and Noblemen
Movie • 1959
marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
Eva
Movie • 1962
(uncredited)
Modern Virgin
Movie • 1954
Antonio Valli
Napoli d'altri tempi
Movie • 1938
Mario Esposito
It Happened in the Park
Movie • 1953
Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
Roman Tales
Movie • 1955
Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
The Bigamist
Movie • 1956
Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
La compagnia dei matti
Movie • 1928
Prof. Rosolillo
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
Movie • 1958
Self
It Always Ends That Way
Movie • 1939
Alberto Milnar
Pazza di gioia
Movie • 1940
Conte Corrado Valli
Cesare Zavattini
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
The Small Miracle
Movie • 1973
Father Damico
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Movie • 1974
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
La guardia del corpo
Movie • 1942
Riccardo, investigatore privato
Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
Movie • 1973
Lionpower from MGM
Movie • 1967
Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)
After the Fox
Movie • 1966
Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
Lykke og krone
Movie • 1962
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Movie • 2022
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
The Four Just Men
TV • 1959
Ricco Poccari
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
The Adventures of Pinocchio
TV • 1972
Giudice
Samedi soir
TV • 1971
Self
Quelli che il cinema
TV • 2025
Self