Vittorio De Sica
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: July 7, 1901
Day of Death: November 13, 1974 (73 years old)
Place of Birth: Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
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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Actor Joe
The Millionairess
Actor Il sindaco
The Traffic Policeman
Actor Mario Vitale
It Started in Naples
Actor le pape Pie VII
The Battle of Austerlitz
Actor le réalisateur
Love in Rome
Actor General Clave
The Angel Wore Red
Actor The Prince
Gastone
Actor Colonel Piero Cuocolo
Le pillole di Ercole
Actor Colonel Belalcazar
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Director
Two Women
1959
Actor O.I.M.P. President
The Moralist
Actor Seccano
Ferdinand I King of Naples
Actor Maurizio
Winter Holidays
Actor professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
My Wife's Enemy
Actor Alfredo
Venetian Honeymoon
Actor Director Pietro Giordani
Il mondo dei miracoli
Actor Spartaco
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Actor Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
General Della Rovere
Actor Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Actor marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
Men and Noblemen
1958
Actor Tonino
Bread, Love and Andalucia
Actor Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
Domenica è sempre domenica
Actor Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
Cannon Serenade
Actor Avvocato Bonelli
Love and Chatter
Actor Don Luigi
Fast and Sexy
Actor
Angel in a Taxi
Actor Il professore
The Inveterate Bachelor
Actor Armando Conforti
The Girl of San Pietro Square
Actor Self
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
Producer
Bread, Love and Andalucia
Original Music Composer
Bread, Love and Andalucia
Supervising Technical Director
Fast and Sexy
Original Music Composer
Fast and Sexy
Co-Director
Fast and Sexy
1957
Actor Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
Il conte Max
Actor Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Actor Major Rinaldi
A Farewell to Arms
Actor Antonio Locoratolo
Doctor and the Healer
Actor Vincenzo Corallo
Fathers and Sons
Actor Engineer Occhipinti
Holiday Island
Actor Alexander Gordy
Paris Casino
Actor Console Bordogin
La donna che venne dal mare
Actor The Count
It Happened in Rome
Actor Giorgio
The Guilty
1956
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1954
Actor Vittorio Stroppiani
Too Bad She's Bad
Actor Veneziani
Gran varietà
Actor Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
The Gold of Naples
Actor Maresciallo Carotenuto
Frisky
Actor Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
The Anatomy of Love
Actor Roberto
The Secrets of the Bed
Actor Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
100 Years of Love
Actor Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
Il matrimonio
Actor Il generale
The Cheerful Squadron
Actor Antonio Valli
Modern Virgin
Director
The Gold of Naples
Screenplay
The Gold of Naples
