Vittorio De Sica
AKA: Витторио Де Сика
Birthday: 1901-07-07
Died: 1974-11-13
Birthplace: 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.
Filmography
Character: Marquis Di Fiore
Character: Baron Fabrizio Donati
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Dott. Pietro Vignali
Character: Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
Character: Alfredo Hartman
Character: Vittorio Stroppiani
Character: Mauro Del Giudice
Character: Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
Character: Cardinal Rinaldi
Character: Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
Character: le pape Pie VII
Character: Don Teofilo - governatore
Character: Riccardo Pietramola
Character: O.I.M.P. President
Character: Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
Character: professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
Character: Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
Character: Maresciallo Carotenuto
Character: Maresciallo Carotenuto
Character: le réalisateur
Character: Leonardo Leonardi
Character: Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
Character: Maresciallo Carotenuto
Character: Defense lawyer
Character: Commendator Trepossi
Character: Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
Character: Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
Character: Count Dino della Fiaba
Character: Il professore Giacomo Banti
Character: Antonio Locoratolo
Character: L'attore cinematografico
Character: Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
Character: Memmo Speranza
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Director Pietro Giordani
Character: Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
Character: Console Bordogin
Character: Fabrizio Marchini
Character: Le comte de Bièvre
Character: Pierre Clémenceau bambino
Character: Avvocato Bonelli
Character: Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
Character: Aristide Rossi
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Pietro Bandelli
Character: L'ambassadeur d'Espagne
Character: Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
Character: Alberto Verani
Character: Engineer Occhipinti
Character: Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
Character: Paladino, l'avvocato
Character: Alexander Gordy
Character: Vincenzo Corallo
Character: Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
Character: Maresciallo Cenciarelli
Character: Armando Conforti
Character: Professor Landi
Character: Gianni / Max Varaldo
Character: Master Perboni
Character: Il conte Ghirani
Character: Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
Character: Self - Interviewee
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Colonel Piero Cuocolo
Character: Il signore distinto
Character: Renato Des Grieux
Character: Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
Character: Enrico Formichi
Character: Colonel Belalcazar
Character: Player in Venice casino
Character: Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
Character: marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
Character: Mario Esposito
Character: Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
Character: Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
Character: Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
Character: Prof. Rosolillo
Character: Alberto Milnar
Character: Conte Corrado Valli
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Job: Original Music Composer
Job: Original Music Composer
Job: Supervising Technical Director