Vittorio De Sica

ActorWriterCrewDirectorProducer Jul 7 (died age 73) Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy 1917–2026 (109 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

Bicycle Thieves

Director

Film

We All Loved Each Other So Much

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Film

Umberto D.

Director

Film

Two Women

Director

Film

Marriage Italian Style

Director

Film

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Director

Film

Shoeshine

Director

Film

The Adventures of Pinocchio

giudice

Filmography

Acting (175)

Movies (170)

Vittorio De Sica – La Vie in Scene

2026

as Self (Archive Footage)

The Garden That Doesn't Exist

2022

as Self (archive footage)

6.2

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

2022

8.2

We Are Cinema

2021

as Self (archive footage)

9.5

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

2021

as Self (archive footage)

7.3

Sophia Loren, a special destiny

2019

as Self (archive footage)

6.9

1960

2010

as Self (archive footage)

5.2

Vittorio D.

2009

as Self (archive footage)

6.3

Working with De Sica

2007

as Self (archive footage)

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

2005

as Self (archive footage)

6.2

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio

2004

as (archive footage)

6.7

Cesare Zavattini

2003

as Self (archive footage)

That's Life: Vittorio De Sica

2001

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

1985

as Self

My Name Is Anna Magnani

1980

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca

1975

as (archive footage)

4.8

We All Loved Each Other So Much

1974

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Blood for Dracula

as Marquis Di Fiore

The Small Miracle

as Father Damico

Storia de fratelli e de cortelli

1973

as Maresciallo Cenciarelli

6.3

Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene

1973

The Assassination of Matteotti

1973

as Mauro Del Giudice

6.6

The Adventures of Pinocchio

as giudice

Hector the Mighty

as Giove

Scandal Man

as Milord

Snow Job

as Enrico Dolphi

Trastevere

as Enrico Formichi

Mafia Things

as Don Michele

We Are All in Temporary Liberty

1971

as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'

I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear

1971

as Player in Venice casino

6.0

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

as Shoemaker

Twelve Plus One

as Di Seta

The Shoes of the Fisherman

1968

as Cardinal Rinaldi

6.7

Dear Caroline

1968

as Le comte de Bièvre

4.2

The Biggest Bundle of Them All

1968

as Cesare Celli

5.4

Cinéma et Réalité

1967

as Self

Lionpower from MGM

1967

as Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)

4.5

An Italian in America

1967

as Lando Marossi

5.1

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

1966

as Commendator Trepossi

6.1

After the Fox

1966

as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)

6.1

Gli altri, gli altri e noi

1966

as Retired

Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti

1966

as Self - Interviewee

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

1965

as der Graf

5.4

Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde

as Self

Sophia Loren in Rome

Lykke og krone

Eva

as (uncredited)

Lafayette

as Bancroft

The Wonders of Aladdin

as Genie

The Last Judgment

as Defense lawyer

The Two Marshals

as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone

7.2

The Orderly

1961

as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi

8.0

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!

1961

as Ambassador of Spain

5.2

The Honored Society

1961

as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'

5.7

It Started in Naples

1960

as Mario Vitale

6.3

The Battle of Austerlitz

as le pape Pie VII

The Angel Wore Red

as General Clave

The Millionairess

as Joe

Gastone

as The Prince

Love in Rome

as le réalisateur

The Traffic Policeman

1960

as Il sindaco

7.3

Le pillole di Ercole

1960

as Colonel Piero Cuocolo

Three Etc.'s and the Colonel

1960

as Colonel Belalcazar

Venetian Honeymoon

1959

as Alfredo

3.0

General Della Rovere

1959

as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'

7.4

Nel blu dipinto di blu

1959

as Spartaco

6.0

The Moralist

1959

as O.I.M.P. President

6.4

Winter Holidays

1959

as Maurizio

6.6

Ferdinand I King of Naples

1959

as Seccano

6.6

Men and Noblemen

1959

as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola

6.1

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

1959

as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)

7.3

My Wife's Enemy

1959

as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni

5.4

Il mondo dei miracoli

1959

as Director Pietro Giordani

Domenica è sempre domenica

1958

as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi

6.4

The Inveterate Bachelor

1958

as Il professore

5.0

Cannon Serenade

1958

as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän

Angel in a Taxi

Fast and Sexy

as Don Luigi

Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina

1958

as Self

6.7

Bread, Love and Andalucia

as Tonino

Love and Chatter

as Avvocato Bonelli

The Girl of San Pietro Square

1958

as Armando Conforti

7.0

The Woman Who Came from the Sea

1957

as Console Bordogin

6.5

Holiday Island

1957

as Engineer Occhipinti

A Farewell to Arms

as Major Rinaldi

Il conte Max

as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo

Fathers and Sons

as Vincenzo Corallo

Paris Casino

as Alexander Gordy

Doctor and the Healer

1957

as Antonio Locoratolo

The Guilty

as Giorgio Vasari

It Happened in Rome

as The Count

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

1957

as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti

5.3

Time of Vacation

1956

as Aristide Rossi

6.2

The Monte Carlo Story

1956

as Count Dino della Fiaba

Nero's Mistress

as Seneca

The Bigamist

as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince

I giorni più belli

Noi siamo le colonne

as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato

The Miller's Beautiful Wife

1955

as Don Teofilo - governatore

5.4

Roman Tales

1955

as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer

The Sign of Venus

as Alessio Spano

It Happens in Roma

as Carlo Reani

Scandal in Sorrento

as Maresciallo Carotenuto

6.9

The Cheerful Squadron

1954

as General

5.7

Too Bad She's Bad

1954

as Vittorio Stroppiani

6.9

The Gold of Naples

1954

as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")

7.3

100 Years of Love

1954

as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")

7.0

Frisky

1954

as Maresciallo Carotenuto

7.2

Il matrimonio

1954

as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov

6.5

The Secrets of the Bed

1954

as Roberto (segment "Divorce, Le")

2.7

The Anatomy of Love

1954

as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio

Gran varietà

as Veneziani

Modern Virgin

as Antonio Valli

The Earrings of Madame de...

1953

as Baron Fabrizio Donati

7.5

It Happened in the Park

1953

as Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)

6.4

Bread, Love and Dreams

1953

as Maresciallo Carotenuto

7.0

Times Gone By

1952

as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")

Hello Elephant

as Carlo Caretti

Position Wanted

as Leonardo Leonardi

Tomorrow Is Too Late

as Professor Landi

Heart

as Master Perboni

Unknown Men of San Marino

1948

as Leo, l'ateo

4.8

Christmas at Camp 119

1947

as Don Vicenzino

6.6

Lost in the Dark

1947

as Carmine

Il mondo vuole così

1946

as Paolo Morelli

Peddlin' in Society

1946

as Il conte Ghirani

5.5

Rome: Free City

1946

as Il signore distinto

4.9

No One Comes Back

1945

as Maurizio

5.0

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo

1945

as Adriano Lari

Our Dreams

as Leo

If I Was Honest

as Pietro Kovach

A Garibaldian in the Convent

1942

as Nino Bixio

6.5

La guardia del corpo

1942

as Riccardo, investigatore privato

Teresa Venerdì

1941

as Dott. Pietro Vignali

6.6

The Adventuress from the Floor Above

1941

as Fabrizio Marchini

6.8

Maddalena, Zero for Conduct

as Alfredo Hartman

Red Roses

as Alberto Verani

Pazza di gioia

as Conte Corrado Valli

The Sinner

as Pietro Bandelli

Manon Lescaut

as Renato Des Grieux

Castles in the Air

1939

as Riccardo Pietramola

5.0

Ai vostri ordini, signora...

1939

as Pietro Haguet

It Always Ends That Way

1939

as Alberto Milnar

Department Store

as Bruno Zacchi

Napoli che non muore

La mazurka di papà

as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro

The Cuckoo Clock

1938

5.0

Napoli d'altri tempi

1938

as Mario Esposito

Hanno rapito un uomo

1938

as L'attore cinematografico

5.0

Le due madri

1938

as Salvatore

Questi ragazzi

1937

as Vincenzo

The Man Who Smiles

1937

as Pio Fardella

Mister Max

1937

as Gianni / Max Varaldo

6.2

I Don't Know You Anymore

1936

as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli

6.4

But It's Nothing Serious

1936

as Memmo Speranza

5.5

Lohengrin

1936

as Alfredo

Amo te sola

as Giovanni

I'll Give a Million

as Gold

La canzone del sole

as Paladino, l'avvocato

Full Speed

1934

as Il professore Giacomo Banti

5.2

Das Lied der Sonne

1933

as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino

5.0

Un cattivo soggetto

1933

as Willy

Lisetta

1933

as Fritz Peters

The Old Lady

1932

as Fine dicitore

Two Happy Hearts

1932

as Mr. Brown

What Scoundrels Men Are!

1932

as Bruno

6.9

The Secretary for Everyone

1932

La compagnia dei matti

1928

as Prof. Rosolillo

6.5

La bellezza del mondo

1927

The Clemenceau Affair

1917

as Pierre Clémenceau bambino

4.3

Television (5)

Quelli che il cinema

2025

as se stesso

The Adventures of Pinocchio

as Giudice

Samedi soir

as Self

The Four Just Men

as Ricco Poccari

Cinépanorama

as Self

Crew (61)

Movies (59)

The Sons of His Mistress

2007

Author

We All Loved Each Other So Much

Presenter

The Voyage

Director

A Brief Vacation

Director

We'll Call Him Andrea

Director

Sunflower

Director

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Director

The Couples

Director

Io e Dio

Producer

A Place for Lovers

Director

Woman Times Seven

Director

The Witches

Director

After the Fox

Director

A Young World

Director

Tokyo Olympiad

1965

Thanks

7.7

Marriage Italian Style

1964

Director

7.7

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Director

The Boom

Director

Boccaccio '70

Director

The Condemned of Altona

Director

The Last Judgment

Director

Two Women

Director

Fast and Sexy

Co-Director

Fast and Sexy

Original Music Composer

5.3

Fast and Sexy

1958

Supervising Technical Director

5.3

Bread, Love and Andalucia

Producer

The Roof

Director

The Roof

Producer

The Gold of Naples

Director

The Gold of Naples

Screenplay

Indiscretion of an American Wife

1953

Director

6.0

Indiscretion of an American Wife

Producer

Umberto D.

Director

Umberto D.

Producer

Hello Elephant

Producer

Miracle in Milan

Director

Miracle in Milan

Producer

Miracle in Milan

Screenplay

Mamma mia, che impressione!

Producer

Bicycle Thieves

Director

Bicycle Thieves

Producer

Bicycle Thieves

Screenplay

Heart

Director

Christmas at Camp 119

1947

Screenplay

6.6

Lost in the Dark

1947

Screenplay

Shoeshine

Director

The Gates of Heaven

Director

The Gates of Heaven

Screenplay

Our Dreams

Screenplay

The Children Are Watching Us

1943

Director

7.6

The Children Are Watching Us

Screenplay

If I Was Honest

Screenplay

A Garibaldian in the Convent

1942

Director

6.5

A Garibaldian in the Convent

1942

Screenplay

6.5

La guardia del corpo

1942

Writer

Teresa Venerdì

Director

Teresa Venerdì

Screenplay

Maddalena, Zero for Conduct

Director

Red Roses

Director

Television (2)

Birth of the Republic

1971

Director

Birth of the Republic

1971

Writer