Vittorio De Sica

Director · 1901–1974 · Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy

Highest rated as cast or director

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.

Directed 34

1970s

1974
The Voyage
Director
1973
A Brief Vacation
Director
1972
We'll Call Him Andrea
Director
1971
Birth of the Republic
Director
1970
The Couples
Director
62
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Director
Sunflower
Director
74

1960s

1968
A Place for Lovers
Director
1967
Woman Times Seven
Director
The Witches
Director
60
1966
After the Fox
Director
67
A Young World
Director
1964
Marriage Italian Style
Director
78
1963
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Director
74
The Boom
Director
78
1962
The Condemned of Altona
Director
Boccaccio '70
Director
65
1961
The Last Judgment
Director
1960
Two Women
Director
80

1950s

1958
Fast and Sexy
Co-Director
1956
The Roof
Director
1954
The Gold of Naples
Director
72
1953
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Director
57
1952
Umberto D.
Director
86
1951
Miracle in Milan
Director
79

1940s

1948
Bicycle Thieves
Director
86
Heart
Director
1946
Shoeshine
Director
84
1945
The Gates of Heaven
Director
1943
The Children Are Watching Us
Director
77
1942
A Garibaldian in the Convent
Director
1941
Teresa Venerdì
Director
1940
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
Director
Red Roses
Director

Acted in 149

2020s

2022
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Movie

2000s

2004
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
(archive footage)

1970s

1975
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
(archive footage)
1974
Blood for Dracula
Marquis Di Fiore
62
1973
Fly Girl, Fly, You've Got Music in your Veins
Movie
The Assassination of Matteotti
Mauro Del Giudice
69
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
Maresciallo Cenciarelli
The Small Miracle
Father Damico
1972
The Adventures of Pinocchio
giudice
76
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Giudice · 1 episode
Scandal Man
Milord
Snow Job
Enrico Dolphi
Hector the Mighty
Giove
1971
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
Trastevere
Enrico Formichi
I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
Player in Venice casino
Mafia Things
Don Michele

1960s

1969
Twelve Plus One
Di Seta
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Shoemaker
61
1968
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Cardinal Rinaldi
Dear Caroline
Le comte de Bièvre
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
Cesare Celli
1967
An Italian in America
Lando Marossi
1966
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
Retired
After the Fox
Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
67
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Commendator Trepossi
1965
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
der Graf
1962
Eva
(uncredited)
63
Lafayette
Bancroft
1961
The Two Marshals
Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
The Orderly
Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
The Wonders of Aladdin
Genie
The Last Judgment
Defense lawyer
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Ambassador of Spain
The Honored Society
Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
1960
Love in Rome
le réalisateur
The Traffic Policeman
Il sindaco
The Millionairess
Joe
Le pillole di Ercole
Colonel Piero Cuocolo
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Colonel Belalcazar
It Started in Naples
Mario Vitale
47
Austerlitz
le pape Pie VII
The Angel Wore Red
General Clave
Gastone
The Prince
61

1950s

1959
Ferdinand I King of Naples
Seccano
65
General Della Rovere
Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
The Four Just Men
Ricco Poccari · 39 episodes
The Moralist
O.I.M.P. President
Il mondo dei miracoli
Director Pietro Giordani
Winter Holidays
Maurizio
Men and Noblemen
marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
My Wife's Enemy
professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Spartaco
Venetian Honeymoon
Alfredo
1958
Bread, Love and Andalucia
Tonino
The Girl of San Pietro Square
Armando Conforti
The Inveterate Bachelor
Il professore
Angel in a Taxi
Movie
Cannon Serenade
Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
Fast and Sexy
Don Luigi
Domenica è sempre domenica
Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
Love and Chatter
Avvocato Bonelli
1957
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
Holiday Island
Engineer Occhipinti
A Farewell to Arms
Major Rinaldi
45
Doctor and the Healer
Antonio Locoratolo
The Woman Who Came from the Sea
Console Bordogin
Paris Casino
Alexander Gordy
Il conte Max
Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
It Happened in Rome
The Count
The Guilty
Giorgio Vasari
Fathers and Sons
Vincenzo Corallo
1956
Noi siamo le colonne
Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
The Monte Carlo Story
Count Dino della Fiaba
Time of Vacation
Aristide Rossi
Nero's Mistress
Seneca
56
I giorni più belli
Movie · Comedy
The Bigamist
Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
1955
Scandal in Sorrento
Maresciallo Carotenuto
66
Roman Tales
Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
58
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Don Teofilo - governatore
It Happens in Roma
Carlo Reani
The Sign of Venus
Alessio Spano
67
1954
Too Bad She's Bad
Vittorio Stroppiani
Frisky
Maresciallo Carotenuto
68
The Cheerful Squadron
General
The Gold of Naples
Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
72
Modern Virgin
Antonio Valli
The Secrets of the Bed
Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")
The Anatomy of Love
Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
Gran varietà
Veneziani
100 Years of Love
Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
Il matrimonio
Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
1953
Bread, Love and Dreams
Maresciallo Carotenuto
69
It Happened in the Park
Arturo Cavazzuti (segment "Incidente a Villa Borghese")
The Earrings of Madame de...
Baron Fabrizio Donati
82
1952
Times Gone By
Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
Hello Elephant
Carlo Caretti
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV
Position Wanted
Leonardo Leonardi
1950
Tomorrow Is Too Late
Professor Landi