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