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Known For
Directing
Birthday
July 7, 1901
Died
November 13, 1974
Place of Birth
Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
Also Known As
- Витторио Де Сика
- 비토리오 데 시카
- ویتوریو دسیکا
Vittorio De Sica
1.3 Popularity
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
6.2
Self (archive footage)
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
2022
9.5
Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
2021
7.3
Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
2019
5.2
Self (archive footage)
1960
2010
6.3
Self (archive footage)
Vittorio D.
2009
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Working with De Sica
2007
6.2
Self (archive footage)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005
6.7
(archive footage)
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Cesare Zavattini
2003
Credits
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
as Self (archive footage)
2022
6.2
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2021
9.5
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)
2021
7.3
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
as Self (archive footage)
2019
7.0
1960
as Self (archive footage)
2010
5.2
Vittorio D.
as Self (archive footage)
2009
6.3
Working with De Sica
as Self (archive footage)
2007
0.0
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self (archive footage)
2005
6.2
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
as (archive footage)
2004
6.7
Cesare Zavattini
as Self (archive footage)
2003
0.0
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
as Self (archive footage)
2001
6.0
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
as Self
1985
0.0
My Name Is Anna Magnani
as Self (archive footage)
1980
8.0
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
as (archive footage)
1975
4.8
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
8.3
Blood for Dracula
as Marquis Di Fiore
1974
5.8
Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
1973
0.0
The Assassination of Matteotti
as Mauro Del Giudice
1973
6.6
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
as Maresciallo Cenciarelli
1973
5.7
The Small Miracle
as Father Damico
1973
0.0
The Adventures of Pinocchio
as giudice
1972
7.5
The Adventures of Pinocchio
as Giudice
1972
7.3
Scandal Man
as Milord
1972
4.0
Snow Job
as Enrico Dolphi
1972
5.1
Hector the Mighty
as Giove
1972
5.0
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
1971
0.0
Trastevere
as Enrico Formichi
1971
6.8
I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
as Player in Venice casino
1971
6.0
Mafia Things
as Don Michele
1971
5.5
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Samedi soir
as Self
1971
6.0
Twelve Plus One
as Di Seta
1969
5.2
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
as Shoemaker
1969
5.8
The Shoes of the Fisherman
as Cardinal Rinaldi
1968
6.7
Dear Caroline
as Le comte de Bièvre
1968
4.5
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
as Cesare Celli
1968
5.4
An Italian in America
as Lando Marossi
1967
5.1
Cinéma et Réalité
as Self
1967
0.0
Lionpower from MGM
1967
4.5
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
as Retired
1966
0.0
After the Fox
as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
1966
6.0
Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
as Self - Interviewee
1966
0.0
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
as Commendator Trepossi
1966
6.1
Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
as Self
1965
4.0
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as der Graf
1965
5.4
Sophia Loren in Rome
1964
0.0
Eva
as (uncredited)
1962
5.9
Lafayette
as Bancroft
1962
5.2
The Two Marshals
as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
1961
7.2
The Orderly
as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
1961
6.0
The Wonders of Aladdin
as Genie
1961
4.9
The Last Judgment
as Defense lawyer
1961
6.4
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
as Ambassador of Spain
1961
5.2
The Honored Society
as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
1961
5.7
Love in Rome
as le réalisateur
1960
5.2
The Traffic Policeman
as Il sindaco
1960
7.4
The Millionairess
as Joe
1960
5.4
Le pillole di Ercole
as Colonel Piero Cuocolo
1960
0.0
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
as Colonel Belalcazar
1960
0.0
It Started in Naples
as Mario Vitale
1960
6.3
The Battle of Austerlitz
as le pape Pie VII
1960
6.6
The Angel Wore Red
as General Clave
1960
4.8
Gastone
as The Prince
1960
5.7
Ferdinand I King of Naples
as Seccano
1959
6.5
General Della Rovere
as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
1959
7.4
The Four Just Men
as Ricco Poccari
1959
6.5
The Moralist
as O.I.M.P. President
1959
6.4
Il mondo dei miracoli
as Director Pietro Giordani
1959
0.0
Winter Holidays
as Maurizio
1959
6.6
Men and Noblemen
as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
1959
6.1
My Wife's Enemy
as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
1959
5.4
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
1959
7.3
Nel blu dipinto di blu
as Spartaco
1959
6.0
Venetian Honeymoon
as Alfredo
1959
3.0
Bread, Love and Andalucia
as Tonino
1958
6.2
The Girl of San Pietro Square
as Armando Conforti
1958
7.0
The Inveterate Bachelor
as Il professore
1958
5.0
Angel in a Taxi
1958
8.5
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
as Self
1958
6.7
Cannon Serenade
as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
1958
0.0
Fast and Sexy
as Don Luigi
1958
5.3
Domenica è sempre domenica
as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
1958
6.4
Love and Chatter
as Avvocato Bonelli
1958
6.1
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
1957
5.3
Holiday Island
as Engineer Occhipinti
1957
6.1
A Farewell to Arms
as Major Rinaldi
1957
5.9
Doctor and the Healer
as Antonio Locoratolo
1957
7.1
La donna che venne dal mare
as Console Bordogin
1957
6.5
Paris Casino
as Alexander Gordy
1957
5.0
Il conte Max
as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
1957
7.1
It Happened in Rome
as The Count
1957
5.4
The Guilty
as Giorgio Vasari
1957
6.2
Fathers and Sons
as Vincenzo Corallo
1957
6.7
Noi siamo le colonne
as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
1956
0.0
The Monte Carlo Story
as Count Dino della Fiaba
1956
5.6
Time of Vacation
as Aristide Rossi
1956
6.2
Nero's Mistress
as Seneca
1956
5.6
I giorni più belli
1956
7.0
The Bigamist
as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
1956
6.6
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
Scandal in Sorrento
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
1955
6.9
Roman Tales
as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
1955
5.9
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
as Don Teofilo - governatore
1955
5.4
It Happens in Roma
as Carlo Reani
1955
4.7
The Sign of Venus
as Alessio Spano
1955
6.8
Too Bad She's Bad
as Vittorio Stroppiani
1954
6.9
Frisky
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
1954
7.2
The Cheerful Squadron
as General
1954
5.7
The Gold of Naples
as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
1954
7.3
Modern Virgin
as Antonio Valli
1954
5.0
The Secrets of the Bed
as Roberto (segment "Divorce, Le")
1954
1.0
The Anatomy of Love
as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
1954
6.4
Gran varietà
as Veneziani
1954
6.1
Il matrimonio
as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
1954
6.5
100 Years of Love
as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
1954
7.0
Bread, Love and Dreams
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
1953
7.0
It Happened in the Park
as Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
1953
6.4
The Earrings of Madame de...
as Baron Fabrizio Donati
1953
7.5
Times Gone By
as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
1952
4.9
Hello Elephant
as Carlo Caretti
1952
5.7
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
8.6
Position Wanted
as Leonardo Leonardi
1951
8.2
Tomorrow Is Too Late
as Professor Landi
1950
5.8
Heart
as Master Perboni
1948
6.2
Unknown Men of San Marino
as Leo, l'ateo
1948
4.8
Christmas at Camp 119
as Don Vicenzino
1947
6.6
Lost in the Dark
as Carmine
1947
0.0
Peddlin' in Society
as Il conte Ghirani
1946
5.5
Rome: Free City
as Il signore distinto
1946
4.9
Il mondo vuole così
as Paolo Morelli
1946
0.0
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
as Adriano Lari
1945
0.0
No One Comes Back
as Maurizio
1945
5.0
Our Dreams
as Leo
1943
5.0
La guardia del corpo
as Riccardo, investigatore privato
1942
0.0
A Garibaldian in the Convent
as Nino Bixio
1942
6.5
If I Was Honest
as Pietro Kovach
1942
8.0
Teresa Venerdì
as Dott. Pietro Vignali
1941
6.6
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
as Fabrizio Marchini
1941
6.8
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
as Alfredo Hartman
1940
6.1
Red Roses
as Alberto Verani
1940
6.0
Pazza di gioia
as Conte Corrado Valli
1940
6.0
Manon Lescaut
as Renato Des Grieux
1940
0.0
The Sinner
as Pietro Bandelli
1940
5.5
It Always Ends That Way
as Alberto Milnar
1939
0.0
Department Store
as Bruno Zacchi
1939
5.8
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Castles in the Air
as Riccardo Pietramola
1939
5.0
Ai vostri ordini, signora...
as Pietro Haguet
1939
0.0
Napoli che non muore
1939
0.0
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Le due madri
as Salvatore
1938
0.0
Hanno rapito un uomo
as L'attore cinematografico
1938
5.0
The Cuckoo Clock
1938
5.0
La mazurka di papà
as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
1938
0.0
Napoli d'altri tempi
as Mario Esposito
1938
0.0
Mister Max
as Gianni / Max Varaldo
1937
6.2
The Man Who Smiles
as Pio Fardella
1937
0.0
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Questi ragazzi
as Vincenzo
1937
0.0
But It's Nothing Serious
as Memmo Speranza
1936
5.5
I Don't Know You Anymore
as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
1936
6.5
Lohengrin
as Alfredo
1936
0.0
Amo te sola
as Giovanni
1935
5.0
I'll Give a Million
as Gold
1935
6.8
Full Speed
as Il professore Giacomo Banti
1934
5.0
La canzone del sole
as Paladino, l'avvocato
1934
0.0
Das Lied der Sonne
as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
1933
5.0
Lisetta
as Fritz Peters
1933
0.0
Un cattivo soggetto
as Willy
1933
0.0
The Secretary for Everyone
1932
0.0
What Scoundrels Men Are!
as Bruno
1932
6.9
Two Happy Hearts
as Mr. Brown
1932
0.0
The Old Lady
as Fine dicitore
1932
0.0
La compagnia dei matti
as Prof. Rosolillo
1928
6.0
🎬
La bellezza del mondo
1927
0.0
🎬
The Clemenceau Affair
as Pierre Clémenceau bambino
1917
4.3