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.
Acting (161 movies)
Twelve Plus One
1969
The Millionairess
1960
Working with De Sica
2007
Cinéma et Réalité
1967
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1969
The Earrings of Madame de...
1953
Blood for Dracula
1974
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
2019
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
The Traffic Policeman
1960
Teresa Venerdì
1941
Snow Job
1972
Il conte Max
1957
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
1940
Bread, Love and Andalucia
1958
It Started in Naples
1960
What Scoundrels Men Are!
1932
Too Bad She's Bad
1954
The Assassination of Matteotti
1973
Amo te sola
1935
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
1957
Times Gone By
1952
1960
2010
A Farewell to Arms
1957
The Battle of Austerlitz
1960
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
1955
Nero's Mistress
1956
The Moralist
1959
Gran varietà
1954
Domenica è sempre domenica
1958
Peddlin' in Society
1946
Napoli che non muore
1939
The Gold of Naples
1954
Scandal in Sorrento
1955
Bread, Love and Dreams
1953
The Sign of Venus
1955
Love in Rome
1960
Position Wanted
1951
The Two Marshals
1961
Frisky
1954
Ferdinand I King of Naples
1959
The Last Judgment
1961
Mister Max
1937
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
1966
The Anatomy of Love
1954
Winter Holidays
1959
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
1968
The Monte Carlo Story
1956
The Secrets of the Bed
1954
The Angel Wore Red
1960
An Italian in America
1967
Our Dreams
1943
Full Speed
1934
Lost in the Dark
1947
Doctor and the Healer
1957
Sophia Loren in Rome
1964
Lisetta
1933
Fathers and Sons
1957
Hanno rapito un uomo
1938
But It's Nothing Serious
1936
100 Years of Love
1954
Holiday Island
1957
Paris Casino
1957
Noi siamo le colonne
1956
Cannon Serenade
1958
Red Roses
1940
A Garibaldian in the Convent
1942
Un cattivo soggetto
1933
Ai vostri ordini, signora...
1939
I'll Give a Million
1935
Mafia Things
1971
Two Happy Hearts
1932
The Secretary for Everyone
1932
The Old Lady
1932
Department Store
1939
La donna che venne dal mare
1957
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
1941
Vittorio D.
2009
Hello Elephant
1952
Hector the Mighty
1972
Dear Caroline
1968
Lohengrin
1936
I giorni più belli
1956
My Wife's Enemy
1959
No One Comes Back
1945
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
2001
The Wonders of Aladdin
1961
It Happens in Roma
1955
Il mondo vuole così
1946
Love and Chatter
1958
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945
Gastone
1960
The Orderly
1961
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
1966
Venetian Honeymoon
1959
It Happened in Rome
1957
The Guilty
1957
The Man Who Smiles
1937
If I Was Honest
1942
Directing (32 movies)
Sunflower
1970
Umberto D.
1952
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970
Bicycle Thieves
1948
Two Women
1960
The Witches
1967
Teresa Venerdì
1941
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
1963
Miracle in Milan
1951
Woman Times Seven
1967
Shoeshine
1946
The Children Are Watching Us
1943
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
1940
Boccaccio '70
1962
Marriage Italian Style
1964
After the Fox
1966
The Boom
1963
The Gold of Naples
1954
Indiscretion of an American Wife
1953
A Brief Vacation
1973
The Last Judgment
1961
A Place for Lovers
1968
The Voyage
1974
The Couples
1970
The Roof
1956
The Condemned of Altona
1962
We'll Call Him Andrea
1972
Red Roses
1940
A Garibaldian in the Convent
1942
The Gate of Heaven
1945
A Young World
1966
Heart
1948
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Teresa Venerdì | 1941 | Screenplay |
| La guardia del corpo | 1942 | Writer |
| If I Was Honest | 1942 | Screenplay |
| A Garibaldian in the Convent | 1942 | Screenplay |
| Our Dreams | 1943 | Screenplay |
| The Children Are Watching Us | 1943 | Screenplay |
| The Gate of Heaven | 1945 | Screenplay |
| Lost in the Dark | 1947 | Screenplay |
| Christmas at Camp 119 | 1947 | Screenplay |
| Bicycle Thieves | 1948 | Producer |
| Bicycle Thieves | 1948 | Screenplay |
| Miracle in Milan | 1951 | Screenplay |
| Miracle in Milan | 1951 | Producer |
| Mamma mia, che impressione! | 1951 | Producer |
| Umberto D. | 1952 | Producer |
| Hello Elephant | 1952 | Producer |
| Indiscretion of an American Wife | 1953 | Producer |
| The Gold of Naples | 1954 | Screenplay |
| The Roof | 1956 | Producer |
| Fast and Sexy | 1958 | Original Music Composer |
| Bread, Love and Andalucia | 1958 | Producer |
| Bread, Love and Andalucia | 1958 | Original Music Composer |
| Io e Dio | 1970 | Producer |