Directing · Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy · Born July 7, 1901
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.
MovieVittorio De Sica: Staging Life
2026
as Self (Archive Footage)
Quelli che il cinema
2025
as Self
MovieBelmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
MovieThe Garden That Doesn't Exist
2022
as Self (archive footage)
MovieWe Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieCinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieSophia Loren, a special destiny
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Movie1960
2010
as Self (archive footage)
MovieVittorio D.
2009
as Self (archive footage)
MovieWorking with De Sica
2007
as Self (archive footage)
MovieFilmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHow We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
as (archive footage)
MovieCesare Zavattini
2003
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThat's Life: Vittorio De Sica
2001
as Self (archive footage)
MovieBellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
as Self
MovieMy Name Is Anna Magnani
1980
as Self (archive footage)
MovieUn sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
1975
as (archive footage)
MovieWe All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieBlood for Dracula
1974
as Marquis Di Fiore
MovieViaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
1973
MovieThe Assassination of Matteotti
1973
as Mauro Del Giudice
MovieStoria de fratelli e de cortelli
1973
as Maresciallo Cenciarelli
MovieThe Small Miracle
1973
as Father Damico
MovieThe Adventures of Pinocchio
1972
as giudice
TVThe Adventures of Pinocchio
1972
as Giudice
MovieScandal Man
1972
as Milord
MovieSnow Job
1972
as Enrico Dolphi
MovieHector the Mighty
1972
as Giove
MovieWe Are All in Temporary Liberty
1971
as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
MovieTrastevere
1971
as Enrico Formichi
MovieI Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
1971
as Player in Venice casino
MovieMafia Things
1971
as Don Michele
Samedi soir
1971
as Self
MovieTwelve Plus One
1969
as Di Seta
MovieIf It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1969
as Shoemaker
MovieThe Shoes of the Fisherman
1968
as Cardinal Rinaldi
MovieDear Caroline
1968
as Le comte de Bièvre
MovieThe Biggest Bundle of Them All
1968
as Cesare Celli
MovieAn Italian in America
1967
as Lando Marossi
MovieCinéma et Réalité
1967
as Self
MovieLionpower from MGM
1967
as Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieGli altri, gli altri e noi
1966
as Retired
MovieAfter the Fox
1966
as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
MovieMan of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
1966
as Self - Interviewee
MovieMe, Me, Me... and the Others
1966
as Commendator Trepossi
MovieCinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
1965
as Self
MovieThe Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
as der Graf
MovieSophia Loren in Rome
1964
as Self
MovieEva
1962
as (uncredited)
MovieLykke og krone
1962
MovieLafayette
1962
as Bancroft
MovieThe Two Marshals
1961
as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
MovieThe Orderly
1961
as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
MovieThe Wonders of Aladdin
1961
as Genie
MovieThe Last Judgment
1961
as Defense lawyer
MovieLong Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
1961
as Ambassador of Spain
MovieThe Honored Society
1961
as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
MovieLove in Rome
1960
as le réalisateur
MovieThe Traffic Policeman
1960
as Il sindaco
MovieThe Millionairess
1960
as Joe
MovieLe pillole di Ercole
1960
as Colonel Piero Cuocolo
MovieThree Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960
as Colonel Belalcazar
MovieIt Started in Naples
1960
as Mario Vitale
MovieAusterlitz
1960
as le pape Pie VII
MovieThe Angel Wore Red
1960
as General Clave
MovieGastone
1960
as The Prince
MovieFerdinand I King of Naples
1959
as Seccano
MovieGeneral Della Rovere
1959
as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
TVThe Four Just Men
1959
as Ricco Poccari
MovieThe Moralist
1959
as O.I.M.P. President
MovieIl mondo dei miracoli
1959
as Director Pietro Giordani
MovieWinter Holidays
1959
as Maurizio
MovieMen and Noblemen
1959
as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
MovieMy Wife's Enemy
1959
as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
MoviePolicarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
1959
as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
MovieNel blu dipinto di blu
1959
as Spartaco
MovieVenetian Honeymoon
1959
as Alfredo
MovieBread, Love and Andalucia
1958
as Tonino
MovieThe Girl of San Pietro Square
1958
as Armando Conforti
MovieThe Inveterate Bachelor
1958
as Il professore
MovieAngel in a Taxi
1958
MovieOrson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
1958
as Self
MovieCannon Serenade
1958
as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
MovieFast and Sexy
1958
as Don Luigi
MovieDomenica è sempre domenica
1958
as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
MovieLove and Chatter
1958
as Avvocato Bonelli
MovieTotò, Vittorio and the Doctor
1957
as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
MovieHoliday Island
1957
as Engineer Occhipinti
MovieA Farewell to Arms
1957
as Major Rinaldi
MovieDoctor and the Healer
1957
as Antonio Locoratolo
MovieThe Woman Who Came from the Sea
1957
as Console Bordogin
MovieParis Casino
1957
as Alexander Gordy
MovieIl conte Max
1957
as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
MovieIt Happened in Rome
1957
as The Count
MovieThe Guilty
1957
as Giorgio Vasari
MovieFathers and Sons
1957
as Vincenzo Corallo
MovieNoi siamo le colonne
1956
as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
MovieThe Monte Carlo Story
1956
as Count Dino della Fiaba
MovieTime of Vacation
1956
as Aristide Rossi
MovieNero's Mistress
1956
as Seneca
MovieI giorni più belli
1956
MovieThe Bigamist
1956
as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
TVCinépanorama
1956
as Self
MovieScandal in Sorrento
1955
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
MovieRoman Tales
1955
as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
MovieThe Miller's Beautiful Wife
1955
as Don Teofilo - governatore
MovieIt Happens in Roma
1955
as Carlo Reani
MovieThe Sign of Venus
1955
as Alessio Spano
MovieToo Bad She's Bad
1954
as Vittorio Stroppiani
MovieFrisky
1954
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
MovieThe Cheerful Squadron
1954
as General
MovieThe Gold of Naples
1954
as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
MovieModern Virgin
1954
as Antonio Valli
MovieThe Secrets of the Bed
1954
as Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")
MovieThe Anatomy of Love
1954
as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
MovieGran varietà
1954
as Veneziani
Movie100 Years of Love
1954
as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
MovieIl matrimonio
1954
as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
MovieBread, Love and Dreams
1953
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
MovieIt Happened in the Park
1953
as Arturo Cavazzuti (segment "Incidente a Villa Borghese")
MovieThe Earrings of Madame de...
1953
as Baron Fabrizio Donati
MovieTimes Gone By
1952
as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
MovieHello Elephant
1952
as Carlo Caretti
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
MoviePosition Wanted
1951
as Leonardo Leonardi
MovieTomorrow Is Too Late
1950
as Professor Landi
MovieHeart
1948
as Master Perboni
MovieUnknown Men of San Marino
1948
as Leo, l'ateo
MovieChristmas at Camp 119
1947
as Don Vicenzino
MovieLost in the Dark
1947
as Carmine
MoviePeddlin' in Society
1946
as Il conte Ghirani
MovieRome: Free City
1946
as Il signore distinto
MovieIl mondo vuole così
1946
as Paolo Morelli
MovieLo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945
as Adriano Lari
MovieNo One Comes Back
1945
as Maurizio
MovieOur Dreams
1943
as Leo
MovieLa guardia del corpo
1942
as Riccardo, investigatore privato
MovieA Garibaldian in the Convent
1942
as Nino Bixio
MovieIf I Was Honest
1942
as Pietro Kovach
MovieTeresa Venerdì
1941
as Dott. Pietro Vignali
MovieThe Adventuress from the Floor Above
1941
as Fabrizio Marchini
MovieMaddalena, Zero for Conduct
1940
as Alfredo Hartman
MovieRed Roses
1940
as Alberto Verani
MoviePazza di gioia
1940
as Conte Corrado Valli
MovieManon Lescaut
1940
as Renato Des Grieux
MovieThe Sinner
1940
as Pietro Bandelli
MovieIt Always Ends That Way
1939
as Alberto Milnar
MovieDepartment Store
1939
as Bruno Zacchi
MovieCastles in the Air
1939
as Riccardo Pietramola
MovieAi vostri ordini, signora...
1939
as Pietro Haguet
MovieNapoli che non muore
1939
Le due madri
1938
as Salvatore
MovieHanno rapito un uomo
1938
as L'attore cinematografico
MovieThe Cuckoo Clock
1938
MovieLa mazurka di papà
1938
as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
MovieNapoli d'altri tempi
1938
as Mario Esposito
MovieMister Max
1937
as Gianni / Max Varaldo
MovieThe Man Who Smiles
1937
as Pio Fardella
Questi ragazzi
1937
as Vincenzo
MovieBut It's Nothing Serious
1936
as Memmo Speranza
MovieI Don't Know You Anymore
1936
as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
MovieLohengrin
1936
as Alfredo
MovieAmo te sola
1935
as Giovanni
MovieI'll Give a Million
1935
as Gold
MovieFull Speed
1934
as Il professore Giacomo Banti
MovieLa canzone del sole
1934
as Paladino, l'avvocato
MovieDas Lied der Sonne
1933
as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
MovieLisetta
1933
as Fritz Peters
MovieUn cattivo soggetto
1933
as Willy
MovieThe Secretary for Everyone
1932
MovieWhat Scoundrels Men Are!
1932
as Bruno
MovieTwo Happy Hearts
1932
as Mr. Brown
MovieThe Old Lady
1932
as Fine dicitore
La compagnia dei matti
1928
as Prof. Rosolillo
La bellezza del mondo
1927
MovieThe Clemenceau Affair
1917
as Pierre Clémenceau bambino
