Vittorio De Sica
Born in Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy — Jul 07 1901• Died Nov 13 1974
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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 Aw…
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The Four Just Men
Ricco Poccari
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Two Women
Directing
Bicycle Thieves
Writing
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Giudice
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Directing
Umberto D.
Directing
Woman Times Seven
Directing
Sunflower
Directing
Boccaccio '70
Directing
Marriage Italian Style
Directing
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
The Witches
Directing
The Earrings of Madame de...
Baron Fabrizio Donati
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Cardinal Rinaldi
Eva
(uncredited)
Birth of the Republic
Directing
Quelli che il cinema
Self
Miracle in Milan
Directing
The Last Judgment
Defense lawyer
After the Fox
Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Shoemaker
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
der Graf
Tokyo Olympiad
Crew
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Ambassador of Spain
Vittorio D.
Self (archive footage)
It Started in Naples
Mario Vitale
Blood for Dracula
Marquis Di Fiore
Twelve Plus One
Di Seta
The Millionairess
Joe
The Boom
Directing
The Monte Carlo Story
Count Dino della Fiaba
Scandal in Sorrento
Maresciallo Carotenuto
Snow Job
Enrico Dolphi
Too Bad She's Bad
Vittorio Stroppiani
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Directing
A Farewell to Arms
Major Rinaldi
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
The Adventures of Pinocchio
giudice
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Directing
The Voyage
Directing
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Don Teofilo - governatore
Hello Elephant
Carlo Caretti
The Gold of Naples
Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
The Moralist
O.I.M.P. President
The Battle of Austerlitz
le pape Pie VII
Roman Tales
Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
Il conte Max
Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
Lafayette
Bancroft
Fast and Sexy
Don Luigi
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Commendator Trepossi
Hector the Mighty
Giove
The Bigamist
Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
Shoeshine
Directing
General Della Rovere
Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Colonel Belalcazar
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
Self (archive footage)
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
Cesare Celli
It Happens in Roma
Carlo Reani
The Traffic Policeman
Il sindaco
Tomorrow Is Too Late
Professor Landi
I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
Player in Venice casino
A Place for Lovers
Directing
Teresa Venerdì
Dott. Pietro Vignali
The Small Miracle
Father Damico
Lykke og krone
The Assassination of Matteotti
Mauro Del Giudice
The Condemned of Altona
Directing
Cinéma et Réalité
Self
Position Wanted
Leonardo Leonardi
Venetian Honeymoon
Alfredo
The Inveterate Bachelor
Il professore
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Self (archive footage)
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Self
Doctor and the Healer
Antonio Locoratolo
Christmas at Camp 119
Don Vicenzino
Il mondo dei miracoli
Director Pietro Giordani
Nero's Mistress
Seneca
Holiday Island
Engineer Occhipinti
Love in Rome
le réalisateur
A Young World
Directing
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Self (archive footage)
Fathers and Sons
Vincenzo Corallo
Dear Caroline
Le comte de Bièvre
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Spartaco
The Sign of Venus
Alessio Spano
The Wonders of Aladdin
Genie
1960
Self (archive footage)
Mister Max
Gianni / Max Varaldo
Il matrimonio
Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
It Happened in Rome
The Count
My Wife's Enemy
professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
If I Was Honest
Pietro Kovach
Winter Holidays
Maurizio
Peddlin' in Society
Il conte Ghirani
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
The Angel Wore Red
General Clave
The Roof
Directing
It Happened in the Park
Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
Trastevere
Enrico Formichi
Times Gone By
Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
The Old Lady
Fine dicitore
Frisky
Maresciallo Carotenuto
Scandal Man
Milord
Lost in the Dark
Carmine
Time of Vacation
Aristide Rossi
The Sinner
Pietro Bandelli
The Cheerful Squadron
General
Rome: Free City
Il signore distinto
Noi siamo le colonne
Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
The Woman Who Came from the Sea
Console Bordogin
A Brief Vacation
Directing
100 Years of Love
Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
The Anatomy of Love
Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
I giorni più belli
The Secrets of the Bed
Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
(archive footage)
Gastone
The Prince
The Two Marshals
Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
Alfredo Hartman
Ferdinand I King of Naples
Seccano
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
(archive footage)
Manon Lescaut
Renato Des Grieux
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
Adriano Lari
Department Store
Bruno Zacchi
Bread, Love and Dreams
Maresciallo Carotenuto
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
Retired
What Scoundrels Men Are!
Bruno
Cannon Serenade
Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
Domenica è sempre domenica
Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
The Guilty
Giorgio Vasari
The Couples
Directing
Love and Chatter
Avvocato Bonelli
Cesare Zavattini
Self (archive footage)
I'll Give a Million
Gold
Gran varietà
Veneziani
Mafia Things
Don Michele
Paris Casino
Alexander Gordy
The Gate of Heaven
Directing
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
Self (archive footage)
The Honored Society
Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
Our Dreams
Leo
The Man Who Smiles
Pio Fardella
Angel in a Taxi
Sophia Loren in Rome
Self
The Orderly
Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
The Secretary for Everyone
Working with De Sica
Self (archive footage)
Unknown Men of San Marino
Leo, l'ateo
Il mondo vuole così
Paolo Morelli
An Italian in America
Lando Marossi
Amo te sola
Giovanni
The Children Are Watching Us
Directing
Pazza di gioia
Conte Corrado Valli
Le pillole di Ercole
Colonel Piero Cuocolo
Bread, Love and Andalucia
Tonino
La guardia del corpo
Riccardo, investigatore privato
Men and Noblemen
marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
Fabrizio Marchini
Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
Un cattivo soggetto
Willy
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
Self
Modern Virgin
Antonio Valli
Hanno rapito un uomo
L'attore cinematografico
We'll Call Him Andrea
Directing
The Cuckoo Clock
Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
Self
Das Lied der Sonne
Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
The Girl of San Pietro Square
Armando Conforti
No One Comes Back
Maurizio
Napoli che non muore
Heart
Master Perboni
But It's Nothing Serious
Memmo Speranza
Castles in the Air
Riccardo Pietramola
The Sons of His Mistress
Writing
Lohengrin
Alfredo
Mamma mia, che impressione!
Production
Lisetta
Fritz Peters
Full Speed
Il professore Giacomo Banti
A Garibaldian in the Convent
Nino Bixio
Napoli d'altri tempi
Mario Esposito
La mazurka di papà
Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
La canzone del sole
Paladino, l'avvocato
Red Roses
Alberto Verani
La compagnia dei matti
Prof. Rosolillo
Le due madri
Salvatore
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
Maresciallo Cenciarelli
Questi ragazzi
Vincenzo
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
Self (archive footage)
Ai vostri ordini, signora...
Pietro Haguet
Io e Dio
Production
Two Happy Hearts
Mr. Brown
La bellezza del mondo
The Clemenceau Affair
Pierre Clémenceau bambino
It Always Ends That Way
Alberto Milnar
I Don't Know You Anymore
Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
Self - Interviewee