Personal Info
Birth date
1901-07-07 (124 Years)
Day of death
1974-11-13
Gender
Male
Known for
Directing
Place of birth
Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
Also known as
Витторио Де Сика
비토리오 데 시카
ویتوریو دسیکا
Vittorio De Sica
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.
Filmography
Bicycle Thieves
8.177
Overview:
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.The Sign of Venus
6.795
Overview:
Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.The Adventures of Pinocchio
7.5
Overview:
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.Boccaccio '70
6.869
Overview:
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.A Farewell to Arms
5.861
Overview:
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
6.9
Overview:
In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
7.3
Overview:
Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been seeking a promotion and a raise that never comes, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don César, meets Celeste, the daughter of Policarpo, and falls in love with her. Policarpo sees in that relationship the solution to his aspirations at work, and does everything in his power to make this relationship fruitful. Don César, who presumes to be a count, sees with very bad eyes that his son meets a girl from such a different social position, and does just the opposite. But the efforts made by both parties will be of no use, since Celeste has fallen in love with Mario Marquetti, a "specialized mechanic" (typist) who is giving private lessons in the offices of the businessman Franquinet .Frisky
7.2
Overview:
The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.The Girl of San Pietro Square
7
Overview:
Armando Conforti, his family and his friends have a business: they sell souvenirs near St. Peter's, in Rome, they change dollars, in short they get along.Teresa Venerdì
6.6
Overview:
A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending girlfriend Loletta, only to end up mistakenly engaged with Lilli, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and pursued by lovestruck 18-year-old orphan Teresa Venerdì.The Wonders of Aladdin
4.9
Overview:
Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie.Hanno rapito un uomo
5
Overview:
A Russian grand duchess, in order to avoid a marriage imposed on her by her family, pretends to have fallen in love with a movie actor and tells her relatives that she has married him. When they arrive, they are able to meet the grand duchess's supposed husband, as she has forced the actor to play the thankless role. But from the pretense and the often awkward incidents it causes, a lively and genuine affection develops between the two protagonists. And the grotesque episode ends with a real wedding.Noi siamo le colonne
NYR
Overview:
The adventures of three university students who live in the same boarding house. Ugo, the most serious one, is in love with Lea, daughter of the lodger. Aldo is a practical joker, Bartolozzi is the shiest. Ugo and Lea's love story becomes stormy because of Aldo.Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
NYR
Overview:
In Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals who have countless demands and wishes.Scandal in Sorrento
6.9
Overview:
Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.The Traffic Policeman
7.354
Overview:
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.It Happens in Roma
4.7
Overview:
Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located in the center of Rome with amazing views both want it and strike the compromise of marrying each other platonically to get it. The woman still hopes for true love and the man agrees to step aside should that special someone come along but he is secretly smitten with her and surreptitiously makes her various suitors look like fools. All goes well until he comes up against Rosanno Brazzi and finds him a tough challenge to overcome.We All Loved Each Other So Much
8.3
Overview:
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
5.2
Overview:
Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress.The Adventuress from the Floor Above
6.8
Overview:
A comedy in which a young lawyer, with a very jealous wife, ends up hosting a woman from his building for a night, with strange consequencesBread, Love and Andalucia
6.2
Overview:
Determined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates in an international music festival in Spain, where he falls for a young dancer.100 Years of Love
7
Overview:
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.The Gold of Naples
7.3
Overview:
A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.The Old Lady
NYR
Overview:
An elderly chestnut vendor lives in poverty but once a month puts on a show with silk and a carriage to impress her daughter in a convent. One day she is robbed of her meager savings.The Garden That Doesn't Exist
6.2
Overview:
Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It came to life in Giorgio Bassani's 1962 semi-autobiographical novel recounting an unfulfilled love story between two young Jews in Ferrara, while fascism was raging in Italy in the late 1930's. In 1972, Vittorio De Sica's film adaptation of the book won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Since then, the fictional space of the garden became so tangible that people from all over the world come to Ferrara to look for it. Fifty years after winning the Oscar, reality and fiction come together once more, as we walk through an imaginary garden and bring to life the book, its author, its main protagonists, history, love, friendships and betrayals.But It's Nothing Serious
5.5
Overview:
Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more appealing wife than any of the others could have been. Assis Noris decorates the screen well as one of the chasers and pursuers. In 1937, De Sica and Noris made a film, "II Signor Max," which, other than the setting and character role names, basically has the same plot as this film.Acting
2022The Garden That Doesn't Exist as Self (archive footage)
2021We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
2021Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita as Self (archive footage)
2019Sophia Loren, a special destiny as Self (archive footage)
20101960 as Self (archive footage)
2009Vittorio D. as Self (archive footage)
2007Working with De Sica as Self (archive footage)
2005Filmmakers vs. Tycoons as Self (archive footage)
2004How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio as (archive footage)
2003Cesare Zavattini as Self (archive footage)
2001That's Life: Vittorio De Sica as Self (archive footage)
1985Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema as Self
1980My Name Is Anna Magnani as Self (archive footage)
1975Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca as (archive footage)
1974We All Loved Each Other So Much as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974Blood for Dracula as Marquis Di Fiore
1973Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene as Unknown
1973The Assassination of Matteotti as Mauro Del Giudice
1973Storia de fratelli e de cortelli as Maresciallo Cenciarelli
1973The Small Miracle as Father Damico
1972The Adventures of Pinocchio as giudice
1972The Adventures of Pinocchio (1 Episode) as Giudice
1972Scandal Man as Milord
1972Snow Job as Enrico Dolphi
1972Hector the Mighty as Giove
1971We Are All in Temporary Liberty as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
1971Trastevere as Enrico Formichi
1971I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear as Player in Venice casino
1971Mafia Things as Don Michele
1971Samedi soir (1 Episode) as Self
1969Twelve Plus One as Di Seta
1969If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium as Shoemaker
1968The Shoes of the Fisherman as Cardinal Rinaldi
1968Dear Caroline as Le comte de Bièvre
1968The Biggest Bundle of Them All as Cesare Celli
1967An Italian in America as Lando Marossi
1967Cinéma et Réalité as Self
1967Lionpower from MGM as Unknown
1966Gli altri, gli altri e noi as Retired
1966After the Fox as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
1966Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti as Self - Interviewee
1966Me, Me, Me... and the Others as Commendator Trepossi
1965Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde as Self
1965The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders as der Graf
1964Sophia Loren in Rome as Unknown
1962Eva as (uncredited)
1962Lafayette as Bancroft
1961The Two Marshals as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
1961The Orderly as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
1961The Wonders of Aladdin as Genie
1961The Last Judgment as Defense lawyer
1961Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! as Ambassador of Spain
1961The Honored Society as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
1960Love in Rome as le réalisateur
1960The Traffic Policeman as Il sindaco
1960The Millionairess as Joe
1960Le pillole di Ercole as Colonel Piero Cuocolo
1960Three Etc.'s and the Colonel as Colonel Belalcazar
1960It Started in Naples as Mario Vitale
1960The Battle of Austerlitz as le pape Pie VII
1960The Angel Wore Red as General Clave
1960Gastone as The Prince
1959Ferdinand I King of Naples as Seccano
1959General Della Rovere as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
1959The Four Just Men (39 Episodes) as Ricco Poccari
1959The Moralist as O.I.M.P. President
1959Il mondo dei miracoli as Director Pietro Giordani
1959Winter Holidays as Maurizio
1959Men and Noblemen as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
1959My Wife's Enemy as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
1959Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
1959Nel blu dipinto di blu as Spartaco
1959Venetian Honeymoon as Alfredo
1958Bread, Love and Andalucia as Tonino
1958The Girl of San Pietro Square as Armando Conforti
1958The Inveterate Bachelor as Il professore
1958Angel in a Taxi as Unknown
1958Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina as Self
1958Cannon Serenade as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
1958Fast and Sexy as Don Luigi
1958Domenica è sempre domenica as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
1958Love and Chatter as Avvocato Bonelli
1957Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
1957Holiday Island as Engineer Occhipinti
1957A Farewell to Arms as Major Rinaldi
1957Doctor and the Healer as Antonio Locoratolo
1957La donna che venne dal mare as Console Bordogin
1957Paris Casino as Alexander Gordy
1957Il conte Max as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
1957It Happened in Rome as The Count
1957The Guilty as Giorgio Vasari
1957Fathers and Sons as Vincenzo Corallo
1956Noi siamo le colonne as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
1956The Monte Carlo Story as Count Dino della Fiaba
1956Time of Vacation as Aristide Rossi
1956Nero's Mistress as Seneca
1956I giorni più belli as Unknown
1956The Bigamist as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
1956Cinépanorama (1 Episode) as Self
1955Scandal in Sorrento as Maresciallo Carotenuto
1955Roman Tales as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
1955The Miller's Beautiful Wife as Don Teofilo - governatore
1955It Happens in Roma as Carlo Reani
1955The Sign of Venus as Alessio Spano
1954Too Bad She's Bad as Vittorio Stroppiani
1954Frisky as Maresciallo Carotenuto
1954The Cheerful Squadron as General
1954The Gold of Naples as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
1954Modern Virgin as Antonio Valli
1954The Secrets of the Bed as Roberto (segment "Divorce, Le")
1954The Anatomy of Love as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
1954Gran varietà as Veneziani
1954100 Years of Love as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
1954Il matrimonio as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
1953Bread, Love and Dreams as Maresciallo Carotenuto
1953It Happened in the Park as Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
1953The Earrings of Madame de... as Baron Fabrizio Donati
1952Times Gone By as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
1952Hello Elephant as Carlo Caretti
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Unknown
1951Position Wanted as Leonardo Leonardi
1950Tomorrow Is Too Late as Professor Landi
1948Heart as Master Perboni
1948Unknown Men of San Marino as Leo, l'ateo
1947Christmas at Camp 119 as Don Vicenzino
1947Lost in the Dark as Carmine
1946Peddlin' in Society as Il conte Ghirani
1946Rome: Free City as Il signore distinto
1946Il mondo vuole così as Paolo Morelli
1945Lo sbaglio di essere vivo as Adriano Lari
1945No One Comes Back as Maurizio
1943Our Dreams as Leo
1942La guardia del corpo as Riccardo, investigatore privato
1942A Garibaldian in the Convent as Nino Bixio
1942If I Was Honest as Pietro Kovach
1941Teresa Venerdì as Dott. Pietro Vignali
1941The Adventuress from the Floor Above as Fabrizio Marchini
1940Maddalena, Zero for Conduct as Alfredo Hartman
1940Red Roses as Alberto Verani
1940Pazza di gioia as Conte Corrado Valli
1940Manon Lescaut as Renato Des Grieux
1940The Sinner as Pietro Bandelli
1939It Always Ends That Way as Alberto Milnar
1939Department Store as Bruno Zacchi
1939Castles in the Air as Riccardo Pietramola
1939Ai vostri ordini, signora... as Pietro Haguet
1939Napoli che non muore as Unknown
1938Le due madri as Salvatore
1938Hanno rapito un uomo as L'attore cinematografico
1938The Cuckoo Clock as Unknown
1938La mazurka di papà as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
1938Napoli d'altri tempi as Mario Esposito
1937Mister Max as Gianni / Max Varaldo
1937The Man Who Smiles as Pio Fardella
1937Questi ragazzi as Vincenzo
1936But It's Nothing Serious as Memmo Speranza
1936I Don't Know You Anymore as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
1936Lohengrin as Alfredo
1935Amo te sola as Giovanni
1935I'll Give a Million as Gold
1934Full Speed as Il professore Giacomo Banti
1934La canzone del sole as Paladino, l'avvocato
1933Das Lied der Sonne as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
1933Lisetta as Fritz Peters
1933Un cattivo soggetto as Willy
1932The Secretary for Everyone as Unknown
1932What Scoundrels Men Are! as Bruno
1932Two Happy Hearts as Mr. Brown
1932The Old Lady as Fine dicitore
1928La compagnia dei matti as Prof. Rosolillo
1927La bellezza del mondo as Unknown
1917The Clemenceau Affair as Pierre Clémenceau bambino
Writing
2007The Sons of His Mistress ... Author
1971Birth of the Republic (1 Episode) ... Writer
1954The Gold of Naples ... Screenplay
1951Miracle in Milan ... Screenplay
1948Bicycle Thieves ... Screenplay
1947Christmas at Camp 119 ... Screenplay
1947Lost in the Dark ... Screenplay
1945The Gate of Heaven ... Screenplay
1943The Children Are Watching Us ... Screenplay
1943Our Dreams ... Screenplay
1942La guardia del corpo ... Writer
1942A Garibaldian in the Convent ... Screenplay
1942If I Was Honest ... Screenplay
1941Teresa Venerdì ... Screenplay
Crew
1974We All Loved Each Other So Much ... Presenter
1965Tokyo Olympiad ... Thanks
1958Fast and Sexy ... Supervising Technical Director
Directing
1974The Voyage ... Director
1973A Brief Vacation ... Director
1972We'll Call Him Andrea ... Director
1971Birth of the Republic (1 Episode) ... Director
1970The Couples ... Director
1970The Garden of the Finzi-Continis ... Director
1970Sunflower ... Director
1968A Place for Lovers ... Director
1967Woman Times Seven ... Director
1967The Witches ... Director
1966After the Fox ... Director
1966A Young World ... Director
1964Marriage Italian Style ... Director
1963Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ... Director
1963The Boom ... Director
1962The Condemned of Altona ... Director
1962Boccaccio '70 ... Director
1961The Last Judgment ... Director
1960Two Women ... Director
1958Fast and Sexy ... Co-Director
1956The Roof ... Director
1954The Gold of Naples ... Director
1953Indiscretion of an American Wife ... Director
1952Umberto D. ... Director
1951Miracle in Milan ... Director
1948Bicycle Thieves ... Director
1948Heart ... Director
1946Shoeshine ... Director
1945The Gate of Heaven ... Director
1943The Children Are Watching Us ... Director
1942A Garibaldian in the Convent ... Director
1941Teresa Venerdì ... Director
1940Maddalena, Zero for Conduct ... Director
1940Red Roses ... Director
Production
1970Io e Dio ... Producer
1958Bread, Love and Andalucia ... Producer
1956The Roof ... Producer
1953Indiscretion of an American Wife ... Producer
1952Hello Elephant ... Producer
1952Umberto D. ... Producer
1951Mamma mia, che impressione! ... Producer
1951Miracle in Milan ... Producer
1948Bicycle Thieves ... Producer
Sound
1958Bread, Love and Andalucia ... Original Music Composer
1958Fast and Sexy ... Original Music Composer