Vittorio De Sica
Age: 73 | From: Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
Person Details
Birthday: 1901-07-07 04:47:34
Death: 1974-11-13 04:47:34
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
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Movie Involvements: 104
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
The Four Just Men
(1959) Ricco Poccari
Nel blu dipinto di blu
(1959) Spartaco
Blood for Dracula
(1974) Marquis Di Fiore
Noi siamo cinema
(2021) Self (archive footage)
General Della Rovere
(1959) Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
A Farewell to Arms
(1957) Major Rinaldi
La donna che venne dal mare
(1957) Console Bordogin
Cinéma et Réalité
(1967) SelfActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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| 2022 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2021 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2019 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2010 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2009 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2007 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2005 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2004 | (archive footage) | |
| 2003 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2001 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1985 | Self | |
| 1980 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1975 | (archive footage) | |
| 1974 | Marquis Di Fiore | |
| 1973 | Mauro Del Giudice | |
| Maresciallo Cenciarelli | ||
| 1972 | Giudice | |
| Enrico Dolphi | ||
| Giove | ||
| 1971 | Enrico Formichi | |
| Player in Venice casino | ||
| Self | ||
| Don Michele | ||
| 1969 | Di Seta | |
| Shoemaker | ||
| 1968 | Cardinal Rinaldi | |
| Le comte de Bièvre | ||
| Cesare Celli | ||
| 1967 | Lando Marossi | |
| Self | ||
| 1966 | Retired | |
| Himself | ||
| Interviewee | ||
| Commendator Trepossi | ||
| 1965 | Self | |
| der Graf | ||
| 1964 | N/A | |
| 1962 | (uncredited) | |
| Bancroft | ||
| 1961 | Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone | |
| Colonnello Filippo Bitossi | ||
| Genie | ||
| Defense lawyer | ||
| L'ambassadeur d'Espagne | ||
| Salvatore il 'Capintesta' | ||
| 1960 | le réalisateur | |
| Il sindaco | ||
| Joe | ||
| Colonel Piero Cuocolo | ||
| Colonel Belalcazar | ||
| Mario Vitale | ||
| le pape Pie VII | ||
| General Clave | ||
| The Prince | ||
| 1959 | Seccano | |
| Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi' | ||
| Ricco Poccari | ||
| O.I.M.P. President | ||
| Director Pietro Giordani | ||
| Maurizio | ||
| marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola | ||
| professor Ottavio Tornabuoni | ||
| Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited) | ||
| Spartaco | ||
| Alfredo | ||
| 1958 | Tonino | |
| Armando Conforti | ||
| Il professore | ||
| Self | ||
| Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän | ||
| Don Luigi | ||
| Il 'comandante' Gastaldi | ||
| Avvocato Bonelli | ||
| 1957 | Marchese Vittorio De Vittti | |
| Engineer Occhipinti | ||
| Major Rinaldi | ||
| Antonio Locoratolo | ||
| Console Bordogin | ||
| Alexander Gordy | ||
| Conte Max Orsini Varaldo | ||
| The Count | ||
| Giorgio | ||
| Vincenzo Corallo | ||
| 1956 | Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato | |
| Count Dino della Fiaba | ||
| Aristide Rossi | ||
| Seneca | ||
| N/A | ||
| Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince | ||
| Self | ||
| 1955 | Maresciallo Carotenuto | |
| Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer | ||
| Don Teofilo - governatore | ||
| Carlo Reani | ||
| Alessio Spano | ||
| 1954 | Vittorio Stroppiani | |
| Maresciallo Carotenuto | ||
| Il generale | ||
| Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori") | ||
| Antonio Valli | ||
| Roberto | ||
| Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio | ||
| Veneziani | ||
| Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin") | ||
| Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov | ||
| 1953 | Maresciallo Carotenuto | |
| Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese) | ||
| Baron Fabrizio Donati | ||
| 1952 | Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine") | |
| Carlo Caretti | ||
| 1951 | N/A | |
| Leonardo Leonardi | ||
| 1950 | Professor Landi | |
| 1948 | Master Perboni | |
| Leo, l'ateo | ||
| 1947 | Don Vicenzino | |
| N/A | ||
| 1946 | Il conte Ghirani | |
| Il signore distinto | ||
| Paolo Morelli | ||
| 1945 | Adriano Lari | |
| Maurizio | ||
| 1943 | Leo | |
| 1942 | Nino Bixio | |
| Pietro Kovach | ||
| 1941 | Dott. Pietro Vignali | |
| Fabrizio Marchini | ||
| 1940 | Alfredo Hartman | |
| Alberto Verani | ||
| Conte Corrado Valli | ||
| Renato Des Grieux | ||
| Pietro Bandelli | ||
| 1939 | Alberto Milnar | |
| Bruno Zacchi | ||
| Riccardo Pietramola | ||
| Pietro Haguet | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1938 | Salvatore | |
| L'attore cinematografico | ||
| N/A | ||
| Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro | ||
| Mario Esposito | ||
| 1937 | Gianni / Max Varaldo | |
| Pio Fardella | ||
| Vincenzo | ||
| 1936 | Memmo Speranza | |
| Il dottore Alberto Spinelli | ||
| Alfredo | ||
| 1935 | Giovanni | |
| Gold | ||
| 1934 | Il professore Giacomo Banti | |
| Paladino, l'avvocato | ||
| 1933 | Dr. Giuseppe Paladino | |
| N/A | ||
| Willy | ||
| 1932 | N/A | |
| Bruno | ||
| Mr. Brown | ||
| Fine dicitore | ||
| 1928 | Prof. Rosolillo | |
| 1927 | N/A | |
| 1917 | Pierre Clémenceau bambino | |
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Directing
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Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 1970 | Producer | |
| 1958 | Producer | |
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| 1948 | Producer | |
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Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 1965 | Thanks | |
| 1958 | Supervising Technical Director | |
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Sound
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 1958 | Original Music Composer | |
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Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 1954 | Screenplay | |
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| 1941 | Screenplay | |
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