Vittorio De Sica

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.

Known For: Directing

Born: Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy, 1901-07-07

Died: 1974-11-13

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1917	The Clemenceau Affair	Pierre Clémenceau bambino	43
2	1927	La bellezza del mondo		0
3	1928	La compagnia dei matti	Prof. Rosolillo	60
4	1932	The Old Lady	Fine dicitore	0
5	1932	Two Happy Hearts	Mr. Brown	0
6	1932	What Scoundrels Men Are!	Bruno	69
7	1932	The Secretary for Everyone		0
8	1933	Un cattivo soggetto	Willy	0
9	1933	Lisetta		0
10	1933	Das Lied der Sonne	Dr. Giuseppe Paladino	50
11	1934	La canzone del sole	Paladino, l'avvocato	0
12	1934	Full Speed	Il professore Giacomo Banti	50
13	1935	I'll Give a Million	Gold	68
14	1935	Amo te sola	Giovanni	50
15	1936	Lohengrin	Alfredo	0
16	1936	I Don't Know You Anymore	Il dottore Alberto Spinelli	65
17	1936	But It's Nothing Serious	Memmo Speranza	53
18	1937	Questi ragazzi	Vincenzo	0
19	1937	The Man Who Smiles	Pio Fardella	0
20	1937	Mister Max	Gianni / Max Varaldo	62
21	1938	Napoli d'altri tempi	Mario Esposito	0
22	1938	La mazurka di papà	Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro	0
23	1938	The Cuckoo Clock		50
24	1938	Hanno rapito un uomo	L'attore cinematografico	50
25	1938	Le due madri	Salvatore	0
26	1939	Napoli che non muore		0
27	1939	Ai vostri ordini, signora...	Pietro Haguet	0
28	1939	Castles in the Air	Riccardo Pietramola	50
29	1939	Department Store	Bruno Zacchi	58
30	1939	It Always Ends That Way	Alberto Milnar	0
31	1940	The Sinner	Pietro Bandelli	55
32	1940	Manon Lescaut	Renato Des Grieux	0
33	1940	Pazza di gioia	Conte Corrado Valli	60
34	1940	Red Roses	Alberto Verani	60
35	1940	Maddalena, Zero for Conduct	Alfredo Hartman	61
36	1941	The Adventuress from the Floor Above	Fabrizio Marchini	68
37	1941	Teresa Venerdì	Dott. Pietro Vignali	66
38	1942	La guardia del corpo	Riccardo, investigatore privato	0
39	1942	If I Was Honest	Pietro Kovach	80
40	1942	A Garibaldian in the Convent	Nino Bixio	65
41	1943	Our Dreams	Leo	50
42	1945	No One Comes Back	Maurizio	50
43	1945	Lo sbaglio di essere vivo	Adriano Lari	0
44	1946	Il mondo vuole così	Paolo Morelli	0
45	1946	Rome: Free City	Il signore distinto	53
46	1946	Peddlin' in Society	Il conte Ghirani	55
47	1947	Lost in the Dark	Carmine	0
48	1947	Christmas at Camp 119	Don Vicenzino	64
49	1948	Unknown Men of San Marino	Leo, l'ateo	48
50	1948	Heart	Master Perboni	63
51	1950	Tomorrow Is Too Late	Professor Landi	58
52	1951	Position Wanted	Leonardo Leonardi	82
53	1952	Hello Elephant	Carlo Caretti	57
54	1952	Times Gone By	Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")	51
55	1953	The Earrings of Madame de...	Baron Fabrizio Donati	75
56	1953	It Happened in the Park	Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)	64
57	1953	Bread, Love and Dreams	Maresciallo Carotenuto	70
58	1954	100 Years of Love	Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")	70
59	1954	Il matrimonio	Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov	65
60	1954	Gran varietà	Veneziani	61
61	1954	The Anatomy of Love	Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio	64
62	1954	The Secrets of the Bed	Roberto (segment "Divorce, Le")	10
63	1954	Modern Virgin	Antonio Valli	50
64	1954	The Gold of Naples	Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")	73
65	1954	The Cheerful Squadron	Il generale	57
66	1954	Frisky	Maresciallo Carotenuto	71
67	1954	Too Bad She's Bad	Vittorio Stroppiani	69
68	1955	The Sign of Venus	Alessio Spano	69
69	1955	It Happens in Roma	Carlo Reani	52
70	1955	The Miller's Beautiful Wife	Don Teofilo - governatore	55
71	1955	Roman Tales	Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer	59
72	1955	Scandal in Sorrento	Maresciallo Carotenuto	69
73	1956	The Bigamist	Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince	66
74	1956	I giorni più belli		70
75	1956	Nero's Mistress	Seneca	56
76	1956	Time of Vacation	Aristide Rossi	62
77	1956	The Monte Carlo Story	Count Dino della Fiaba	56
78	1956	Noi siamo le colonne	Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato	0
79	1957	Fathers and Sons	Vincenzo Corallo	67
80	1957	The Guilty	Giorgio Vasari	62
81	1957	It Happened in Rome	The Count	54
82	1957	Il conte Max	Conte Max Orsini Varaldo	71
83	1957	Paris Casino	Alexander Gordy	50
84	1957	La donna che venne dal mare	Console Bordogin	65
85	1957	Doctor and the Healer	Antonio Locoratolo	71
86	1957	A Farewell to Arms	Major Rinaldi	58
87	1957	Holiday Island	Engineer Occhipinti	61
88	1957	Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor	Marchese Vittorio De Vittti	51
89	1958	Love and Chatter	Avvocato Bonelli	61
90	1958	Domenica è sempre domenica	Il 'comandante' Gastaldi	64
91	1958	Fast and Sexy	Don Luigi	52
92	1958	Cannon Serenade	Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän	0
93	1958	Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina	Self	67
94	1958	Angel in a Taxi		85
95	1958	The Inveterate Bachelor	Il professore	50
96	1958	The Girl of San Pietro Square	Armando Conforti	70
97	1958	Bread, Love and Andalucia	Tonino	62
98	1959	Venetian Honeymoon	Alfredo	30
99	1959	Nel blu dipinto di blu	Spartaco	60
100	1959	Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura	Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)	73
101	1959	My Wife's Enemy	professor Ottavio Tornabuoni	54
102	1959	Men and Noblemen	marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola	61
103	1959	Winter Holidays	Maurizio	66
104	1959	Il mondo dei miracoli	Director Pietro Giordani	0
105	1959	The Moralist	O.I.M.P. President	64
106	1959	General Della Rovere	Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'	74
107	1959	Ferdinand I King of Naples	Seccano	64
108	1960	Gastone	The Prince	57
109	1960	The Angel Wore Red	General Clave	53
110	1960	The Battle of Austerlitz	le pape Pie VII	66
111	1960	It Started in Naples	Mario Vitale	63
112	1960	Three Etc.'s and the Colonel	Colonel Belalcazar	0
113	1960	Le pillole di Ercole	Colonel Piero Cuocolo	0
114	1960	The Millionairess	Joe	54
115	1960	The Traffic Policeman	Il sindaco	73
116	1960	Love in Rome	le réalisateur	56
117	1961	The Honored Society	Salvatore il 'Capintesta'	57
118	1961	Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!	Ambassador of Spain	52
119	1961	The Last Judgment	Defense lawyer	64
120	1961	The Wonders of Aladdin	Genie	51
121	1961	The Orderly	Colonnello Filippo Bitossi	60
122	1961	The Two Marshals	Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone	71
123	1962	Lafayette	Bancroft	52
124	1962	Eva	(uncredited)	59
125	1964	Sophia Loren in Rome		0
126	1965	The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders	der Graf	58
127	1965	Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde	Self	40
128	1966	Me, Me, Me... and the Others	Commendator Trepossi	61
129	1966	Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti	Self - Interviewee	0
130	1966	After the Fox	Himself	60
131	1966	Gli altri, gli altri e noi	Retired	0
132	1967	Cinéma et Réalité	Self	0
133	1967	An Italian in America	Lando Marossi	51
134	1968	The Biggest Bundle of Them All	Cesare Celli	57
135	1968	Dear Caroline	Le comte de Bièvre	45
136	1968	The Shoes of the Fisherman	Cardinal Rinaldi	67
137	1969	If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium	Shoemaker	58
138	1969	Twelve Plus One	Di Seta	53
139	1971	Mafia Things	Don Michele	55
140	1971	I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear	Player in Venice casino	60
141	1971	Trastevere	Enrico Formichi	68
142	1971	We Are All in Temporary Liberty		0
143	1972	Hector the Mighty	Giove	50
144	1972	Snow Job	Enrico Dolphi	44
145	1972	Scandal Man	Milord	40
146	1972	The Adventures of Pinocchio	giudice	75
147	1973	The Small Miracle	Father Damico	0
148	1973	Storia de fratelli e de cortelli	Maresciallo Cenciarelli	57
149	1973	The Assassination of Matteotti	Mauro Del Giudice	66
150	1973	Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene		0
151	1974	Blood for Dracula	Marquis Di Fiore	57
152	1974	We All Loved Each Other So Much	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	83
153	1975	Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca	(archive footage)	48
154	1980	My Name Is Anna Magnani	Self (archive footage)	80
155	1985	Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema	Self	0
156	2001	That's Life: Vittorio De Sica	Self (archive footage)	60
157	2003	Cesare Zavattini	Self (archive footage)	0
158	2004	How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio	(archive footage)	67
159	2005	Filmmakers vs. Tycoons	Self (archive footage)	62
160	2007	Working with De Sica	Self (archive footage)	0
161	2009	Vittorio D.	Self (archive footage)	63
162	2010	1960	Self (archive footage)	52
163	2019	Sophia Loren, a special destiny	Self (archive footage)	70
164	2021	Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita	Self (archive footage)	73
165	2021	We Are Cinema	Self (archive footage)	95
166	2022	The Garden That Doesn't Exist	Self (archive footage)	62

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame		86
2	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
3	1959	The Four Just Men	Ricco Poccari	65
4	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
5	1972	The Adventures of Pinocchio	Giudice	72

Vittorio De Sica

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