Vittorio De Sica
Directing
Born: July 7, 1901 · Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
Died: November 13, 1974 (aged 73)
Highest Rated
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
Bicycle Thieves
1948
Umberto D.
1952
We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
Two Women
1960
Marriage Italian Style
1964
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
1963
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1972
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970
Shoeshine
1946
Miracle in Milan
1951
The Earrings of Madame de...
1953
Blood for Dracula
1974
Photos (1)
Movies (146)
A Farewell to Arms
Major Rinaldi
Austerlitz
le pape Pie VII
The Adventures of Pinocchio
giudice
Tomorrow Is Too Late
Professor Landi
Gran varietà
Veneziani
The Gold of Naples
Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Cardinal Rinaldi
Roman Tales
Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
The Clemenceau Affair
Pierre Clémenceau bambino
The Earrings of Madame de...
Baron Fabrizio Donati
Blood for Dracula
Marquis Di Fiore
The Wonders of Aladdin
Genie
Lafayette
Bancroft
It Started in Naples
Mario Vitale
General Della Rovere
Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
Lykke og krone
1962
The Monte Carlo Story
Count Dino della Fiaba
100 Years of Love
Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Don Teofilo - governatore
The Last Judgment
Defense lawyer
It Happened in the Park
Arturo Cavazzuti (segment "Incidente a Villa Borghese")
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Shoemaker
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
der Graf
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
Dear Caroline
Le comte de Bièvre
Too Bad She's Bad
Vittorio Stroppiani
The Cuckoo Clock
1938
Scandal in Sorrento
Maresciallo Carotenuto
Red Roses
Alberto Verani
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
Cesare Celli
Eva
(uncredited)
After the Fox
Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
Hector the Mighty
Giove
The Cheerful Squadron
General
The Millionairess
Joe
The Secrets of the Bed
Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")
The Anatomy of Love
Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
Rome: Free City
Il signore distinto
The Assassination of Matteotti
Mauro Del Giudice
The Sign of Venus
Alessio Spano
Bread, Love and Dreams
Maresciallo Carotenuto
Frisky
Maresciallo Carotenuto
Ferdinand I King of Naples
Seccano
The Angel Wore Red
General Clave
It Happened in Rome
The Count
The Traffic Policeman
Il sindaco
Fathers and Sons
Vincenzo Corallo
The Two Marshals
Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Commendator Trepossi
Nero's Mistress
Seneca
The Moralist
O.I.M.P. President
Fast and Sexy
Don Luigi
Twelve Plus One
Di Seta
I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
Player in Venice casino
Doctor and the Healer
Antonio Locoratolo
Gastone
The Prince
Il conte Max
Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
Teresa Venerdì
Dott. Pietro Vignali
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
Maresciallo Cenciarelli
The Bigamist
Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
Cannon Serenade
Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
I giorni più belli
1956
Noi siamo le colonne
Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
Castles in the Air
Riccardo Pietramola
Men and Noblemen
marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
1973
Scandal Man
Milord
Love in Rome
le réalisateur
The Inveterate Bachelor
Il professore
A Garibaldian in the Convent
Nino Bixio
Trastevere
Enrico Formichi
My Wife's Enemy
professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
Lisetta
Fritz Peters
Venetian Honeymoon
Alfredo
Domenica è sempre domenica
Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
Times Gone By
Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
Angel in a Taxi
1958
It Happens in Roma
Carlo Reani
Mafia Things
Don Michele
Hello Elephant
Carlo Caretti
Love and Chatter
Avvocato Bonelli
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Spartaco
Position Wanted
Leonardo Leonardi
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
Retired
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
Alfredo Hartman
Mister Max
Gianni / Max Varaldo
I'll Give a Million
Gold
An Italian in America
Lando Marossi
The Orderly
Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
What Scoundrels Men Are!
Bruno
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
The Small Miracle
Father Damico
Il matrimonio
Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
(archive footage)
The Sinner
Pietro Bandelli
Bread, Love and Andalucia
Tonino
Peddlin' in Society
Il conte Ghirani
The Guilty
Giorgio Vasari
Modern Virgin
Antonio Valli
I Don't Know You Anymore
Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
Winter Holidays
Maurizio
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Colonel Belalcazar
Il mondo dei miracoli
Director Pietro Giordani
Lost in the Dark
Carmine
Department Store
Bruno Zacchi
Paris Casino
Alexander Gordy
Time of Vacation
Aristide Rossi
Our Dreams
Leo
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
(archive footage)
La canzone del sole
Paladino, l'avvocato
I Love You Only
Giovanni
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
Pazza di gioia
Conte Corrado Valli
Heart
Master Perboni
Manon Lescaut
Renato Des Grieux
Un cattivo soggetto
Willy
If I Was Honest
Pietro Kovach
Full Speed
Il professore Giacomo Banti
Napoli d'altri tempi
Mario Esposito
The Man Who Smiles
Pio Fardella
Il mondo vuole così
Paolo Morelli
Holiday Island
Engineer Occhipinti
Das Lied der Sonne
Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Ambassador of Spain
Ai vostri ordini, signora...
Pietro Haguet
Le pillole di Ercole
Colonel Piero Cuocolo
La mazurka di papà
Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
Snow Job
Enrico Dolphi
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
Adriano Lari
The Woman Who Came from the Sea
Console Bordogin
Christmas at Camp 119
Don Vicenzino
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
Fabrizio Marchini
The Girl of San Pietro Square
Armando Conforti
But It's Nothing Serious
Memmo Speranza
Unknown Men of San Marino
Leo, l'ateo
The Honored Society
Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
Two Happy Hearts
Mr. Brown
Lohengrin
Alfredo
It Always Ends That Way
Alberto Milnar
The Secretary for Everyone
1932
La guardia del corpo
Riccardo, investigatore privato
The Old Lady
Fine dicitore
Hanno rapito un uomo
L'attore cinematografico
Napoli che non muore
1939
No One Comes Back
Maurizio
TV Shows (3)
Self / Appearances (21)
Cinépanorama
Self · 1 eps
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
Self (Archive Footage)
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
Self (archive footage)
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)
Vittorio D.
Self (archive footage)
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
Self (archive footage)
Cesare Zavattini
Self (archive footage)
Cinéma et Réalité
Self
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self (archive footage)
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
Self
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Self (archive footage)
1960
Self (archive footage)
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Self
Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
Self
Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
Self - Interviewee
Sophia Loren in Rome
Self
Working with De Sica
Self (archive footage)
Directing (34)
Bicycle Thieves
Director
Marriage Italian Style
Director
Two Women
Director
Sunflower
Director
Boccaccio '70
Director
Umberto D.
Director
Shoeshine
Director
Woman Times Seven
Director
The Witches
Director
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Director
The Gold of Naples
Director
The Couples
Director
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Director
Miracle in Milan
Director
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Director
Birth of the Republic
Director
The Last Judgment
Director
The Roof
Director
The Boom
Director
Red Roses
Director
A Place for Lovers
Director
After the Fox
Director
The Children Are Watching Us
Director
The Voyage
Director
The Condemned of Altona
Director
Fast and Sexy
Co-Director
A Young World
Director
Teresa Venerdì
Director
A Garibaldian in the Convent
Director
A Brief Vacation
Director
The Gates of Heaven
Director
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
Director
Heart
Director
We'll Call Him Andrea
Director
Writing (15)
Bicycle Thieves
Screenplay
The Gold of Naples
Screenplay
The Couples
Writer
Miracle in Milan
Screenplay
Birth of the Republic
Writer
The Children Are Watching Us
Screenplay
Teresa Venerdì
Screenplay
The Sons of His Mistress
Author
A Garibaldian in the Convent
Screenplay
The Gates of Heaven
Screenplay
Lost in the Dark
Screenplay
Our Dreams
Screenplay
If I Was Honest
Screenplay
Christmas at Camp 119
Screenplay
La guardia del corpo
Writer
Producing (9)
Bicycle Thieves
Producer
Umberto D.
Producer
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Producer
Miracle in Milan
Producer
The Roof
Producer
Mamma mia, che impressione!
Producer
Hello Elephant
Producer
Bread, Love and Andalucia
Producer
Io e Dio
Producer
