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Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio De Sica

Director · Born 1901-07-07 · Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy

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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 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.

Directed

  1. Bicycle Thieves (1948) — Director
  2. Umberto D. (1952) — Director
  3. Two Women (1960) — Director
  4. Marriage Italian Style (1964) — Director
  5. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) — Director
  6. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) — Director
  7. Shoeshine (1946) — Director
  8. Miracle in Milan (1951) — Director
  9. Sunflower (1970) — Director
  10. Boccaccio '70 (1962) — Director
  11. The Gold of Naples (1954) — Director
  12. The Children Are Watching Us (1943) — Director
  13. After the Fox (1966) — Director
  14. The Witches (1967) — Director
  15. The Boom (1963) — Director
  16. Woman Times Seven (1967) — Director
  17. Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953) — Director
  18. The Roof (1956) — Director
  19. The Last Judgment (1961) — Director
  20. Teresa Venerdì (1941) — Director
  21. A Place for Lovers (1968) — Director
  22. A Brief Vacation (1973) — Director
  23. A Garibaldian in the Convent (1942) — Director
  24. Maddalena, Zero for Conduct (1940) — Director
  25. The Voyage (1974) — Director
  26. The Condemned of Altona (1962) — Director
  27. The Couples (1970) — Director
  28. We'll Call Him Andrea (1972) — Director
  29. The Gates of Heaven (1945) — Director
  30. Heart (1948) — Director
  31. Red Roses (1940) — Director
  32. A Young World (1966) — Director
  33. Birth of the Republic (1971) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  2. The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972) — giudice
  3. The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) — Baron Fabrizio Donati
  4. Blood for Dracula (1974) — Marquis Di Fiore
  5. The Traffic Policeman (1960) — Il sindaco
  6. Bread, Love and Dreams (1953) — Maresciallo Carotenuto
  7. Scandal in Sorrento (1955) — Maresciallo Carotenuto
  8. General Della Rovere (1959) — Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
  9. The Gold of Naples (1954) — Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
  10. The Sign of Venus (1955) — Alessio Spano
  11. The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) — Cardinal Rinaldi
  12. It Started in Naples (1960) — Mario Vitale
  13. After the Fox (1966) — Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
  14. Il conte Max (1957) — Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
  15. Too Bad She's Bad (1954) — Vittorio Stroppiani
  16. The Two Marshals (1961) — Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
  17. Eva (1962) — (uncredited)
  18. Frisky (1954) — Maresciallo Carotenuto
  19. A Farewell to Arms (1957) — Major Rinaldi
  20. The Miller's Beautiful Wife (1955) — Don Teofilo - governatore
  21. The Moralist (1959) — O.I.M.P. President
  22. The Millionairess (1960) — Joe
  23. Austerlitz (1960) — le pape Pie VII
  24. The Last Judgment (1961) — Defense lawyer
  25. If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969) — Shoemaker
  26. The Assassination of Matteotti (1973) — Mauro Del Giudice
  27. Twelve Plus One (1969) — Di Seta
  28. Nero's Mistress (1956) — Seneca
  29. Doctor and the Healer (1957) — Antonio Locoratolo
  30. Teresa Venerdì (1941) — Dott. Pietro Vignali
  31. What Scoundrels Men Are! (1932) — Bruno
  32. Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor (1957) — Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
  33. Fathers and Sons (1957) — Vincenzo Corallo
  34. Ferdinand I King of Naples (1959) — Seccano
  35. Mister Max (1937) — Gianni / Max Varaldo
  36. A Garibaldian in the Convent (1942) — Nino Bixio
  37. I'll Give a Million (1935) — Gold
  38. Department Store (1939) — Bruno Zacchi
  39. Maddalena, Zero for Conduct (1940) — Alfredo Hartman
  40. Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966) — Commendator Trepossi