Vittorio De Sica
- Directing
- July 7, 1901 · Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
- November 13, 1974
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
Filmography
- Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life · Self
- Quelli che il cinema · Self
- Belmondo: The Incorrigible
- The Garden That Doesn't Exist · Self
- We Are Cinema · Self
- Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita · Self
- Sophia Loren, a special destiny · Self
- 1960 · Self
- Vittorio D. · Self
- The Sons of His Mistress · Author
- Working with De Sica · Self
- Filmmakers vs. Tycoons · Self
- How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio · (archive footage)
- Cesare Zavattini · Self
- That's Life: Vittorio De Sica · Self
- Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema · Self
- My Name Is Anna Magnani · Self
- Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca · (archive footage)
- We All Loved Each Other So Much · Self, Presenter
- Blood for Dracula · Marquis Di Fiore
- The Voyage · Director
- Fly Girl, Fly, You've Got Music in your Veins
- The Assassination of Matteotti · Mauro Del Giudice
- A Brief Vacation · Director
- Storia de fratelli e de cortelli · Maresciallo Cenciarelli
- The Small Miracle · Father Damico
- The Adventures of Pinocchio · giudice
- We'll Call Him Andrea · Director
- The Adventures of Pinocchio · Giudice
- Scandal Man · Milord
- Snow Job · Enrico Dolphi
- Hector the Mighty · Giove
- We Are All in Temporary Liberty · Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
- Trastevere · Enrico Formichi
- Birth of the Republic · Director, Writer
- I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear · Player in Venice casino
- Mafia Things · Don Michele
- Samedi soir · Self
- The Couples · Director, Writer
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis · Director
- Io e Dio · Producer
- Sunflower · Director
- Twelve Plus One · Di Seta
- If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium · Shoemaker
- A Place for Lovers · Director
- The Shoes of the Fisherman · Cardinal Rinaldi
- Dear Caroline · Le comte de Bièvre
- The Biggest Bundle of Them All · Cesare Celli
- An Italian in America · Lando Marossi
- Woman Times Seven · Director
- The Witches · Director
- Cinéma et Réalité · Self
- Lionpower from MGM · Self
- Gli altri, gli altri e noi · Retired
- After the Fox · Vittorio De Sica (uncredited), Director
- Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti · Self
- A Young World · Director
- Me, Me, Me... and the Others · Commendator Trepossi
- Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde · Self
- The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders · der Graf
- Tokyo Olympiad · Thanks
- Marriage Italian Style · Director
- Sophia Loren in Rome · Self
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow · Director
- The Boom · Director
- The Condemned of Altona · Director
- Eva · (uncredited)
- Lykke og krone · Self
- Boccaccio '70 · Director
- Lafayette · Bancroft
- The Two Marshals · Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
- The Orderly · Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
- The Wonders of Aladdin · Genie
- The Last Judgment · Defense lawyer, Director
- Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! · Ambassador of Spain
- The Honored Society · Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
- Two Women · Director
- Love in Rome · le réalisateur
- The Traffic Policeman · Il sindaco
- The Millionairess · Joe