Actor · Directing

Vittorio De Sica

Born 1901-07-07

Died 1974-11-13

📍 Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy

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 171

Vittorio De Sica – La Vie in Scene

as Self (Archive Footage)

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

The Garden That Doesn't Exist

as Self (archive footage)

as Self (archive footage)

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

as Self (archive footage)

Sophia Loren, a special destiny

as Self (archive footage)

as Self (archive footage)

as Self (archive footage)

Working with De Sica

as Self (archive footage)

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

as Self (archive footage)

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio

as (archive footage)

Cesare Zavattini

as Self (archive footage)

That's Life: Vittorio De Sica

as Self (archive footage)

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

My Name Is Anna Magnani

as Self (archive footage)

Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca

as (archive footage)

We All Loved Each Other So Much

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Blood for Dracula

as Marquis Di Fiore

Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene

The Assassination of Matteotti

as Mauro Del Giudice

Storia de fratelli e de cortelli

as Maresciallo Cenciarelli

The Small Miracle

as Father Damico

The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio

as Enrico Dolphi

Hector the Mighty

We Are All in Temporary Liberty

as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'

as Enrico Formichi

I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear

as Player in Venice casino

Twelve Plus One

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

The Shoes of the Fisherman

as Cardinal Rinaldi

as Le comte de Bièvre

The Biggest Bundle of Them All

as Cesare Celli

An Italian in America

as Lando Marossi

Cinéma et Réalité

Lionpower from MGM

as Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gli altri, gli altri e noi

as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)

Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti

as Self - Interviewee

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

as Commendator Trepossi

Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

Sophia Loren in Rome

as (uncredited)

The Two Marshals

as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone

as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi

The Wonders of Aladdin

The Last Judgment

as Defense lawyer

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!

as Ambassador of Spain

The Honored Society

as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'

as le réalisateur

The Traffic Policeman

The Millionairess

Le pillole di Ercole

as Colonel Piero Cuocolo

Three Etc.'s and the Colonel

as Colonel Belalcazar

It Started in Naples

as Mario Vitale

The Battle of Austerlitz

as le pape Pie VII

The Angel Wore Red

as General Clave

Ferdinand I King of Naples

General Della Rovere

as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'

The Four Just Men

as Ricco Poccari

as O.I.M.P. President

Il mondo dei miracoli

as Director Pietro Giordani

Winter Holidays

Men and Noblemen

as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola

My Wife's Enemy

as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)

Nel blu dipinto di blu

Venetian Honeymoon

Bread, Love and Andalucia

The Girl of San Pietro Square

as Armando Conforti

The Inveterate Bachelor

as Il professore

Angel in a Taxi

Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina

Cannon Serenade

as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän

Domenica è sempre domenica

as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi

Love and Chatter

as Avvocato Bonelli

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti

as Engineer Occhipinti

A Farewell to Arms

as Major Rinaldi

Doctor and the Healer

as Antonio Locoratolo

The Woman Who Came from the Sea

as Console Bordogin

as Alexander Gordy

as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo

It Happened in Rome

as Giorgio Vasari

Fathers and Sons

as Vincenzo Corallo

Noi siamo le colonne

as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato

The Monte Carlo Story

as Count Dino della Fiaba

Time of Vacation

as Aristide Rossi

Nero's Mistress

I giorni più belli

as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince

Scandal in Sorrento

as Maresciallo Carotenuto

as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer

The Miller's Beautiful Wife

as Don Teofilo - governatore

It Happens in Roma

The Sign of Venus

as Alessio Spano

Too Bad She's Bad

as Vittorio Stroppiani

as Maresciallo Carotenuto

The Cheerful Squadron

The Gold of Naples

as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")

as Antonio Valli

The Secrets of the Bed

as Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")

The Anatomy of Love

as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio

100 Years of Love

as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")

as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov

Bread, Love and Dreams

as Maresciallo Carotenuto

It Happened in the Park

as Arturo Cavazzuti (segment "Incidente a Villa Borghese")

The Earrings of Madame de...

as Baron Fabrizio Donati

as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")

as Carlo Caretti

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Position Wanted

as Leonardo Leonardi

Tomorrow Is Too Late

as Professor Landi

as Master Perboni

Unknown Men of San Marino

Christmas at Camp 119

as Don Vicenzino

Lost in the Dark

Peddlin' in Society

as Il conte Ghirani

Rome: Free City

as Il signore distinto

Il mondo vuole così

as Paolo Morelli

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo

as Adriano Lari

No One Comes Back

La guardia del corpo

as Riccardo, investigatore privato

A Garibaldian in the Convent

If I Was Honest

as Pietro Kovach

Teresa Venerdì

as Dott. Pietro Vignali

The Adventuress from the Floor Above

as Fabrizio Marchini

Maddalena, Zero for Conduct

as Alfredo Hartman

as Alberto Verani

as Conte Corrado Valli

as Renato Des Grieux

as Pietro Bandelli

It Always Ends That Way

as Alberto Milnar

Department Store

as Bruno Zacchi

Castles in the Air

as Riccardo Pietramola

Ai vostri ordini, signora...

as Pietro Haguet

Napoli che non muore

Hanno rapito un uomo

as L'attore cinematografico

The Cuckoo Clock

La mazurka di papà

as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro

Napoli d'altri tempi

as Mario Esposito

as Gianni / Max Varaldo

The Man Who Smiles

as Pio Fardella

But It's Nothing Serious

as Memmo Speranza

I Don't Know You Anymore

as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli

I'll Give a Million

as Il professore Giacomo Banti

La canzone del sole

as Paladino, l'avvocato

Das Lied der Sonne

as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino

as Fritz Peters

Un cattivo soggetto

The Secretary for Everyone

What Scoundrels Men Are!

Two Happy Hearts

as Fine dicitore

La compagnia dei matti

as Prof. Rosolillo

The Clemenceau Affair

as Pierre Clémenceau bambino