Vittorio De Sica

from Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy

Artwork for A Farewell to ArmsImage of 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.

Timeline

2026Aged 125

  • Poster for Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life

    Self (Archive Footage)

2022Aged 121

  • Poster for The Garden That Doesn't Exist

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Belmondo: The Incorrigible

    (Unknown)

2021Aged 120

  • Poster for Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for We Are Cinema

    Self (archive footage)

2019Aged 118

  • Poster for Sophia Loren, a special destiny

    Self (archive footage)

2010Aged 109

  • Poster for 1960

    Self (archive footage)

2009Aged 108

  • Poster for Vittorio D.

    Self (archive footage)

2007Aged 106

  • Poster for Working with De Sica

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Sons of His Mistress

    Author

2005Aged 104

  • Poster for Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

    Self (archive footage)

2004Aged 103

  • Poster for How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio

    (archive footage)

2003Aged 102

  • Poster for Cesare Zavattini

    Self (archive footage)

2001Aged 100

  • Poster for That's Life: Vittorio De Sica

    Self (archive footage)

1985Aged 84

  • Poster for Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

    Self

1980Aged 79

  • Poster for My Name Is Anna Magnani

    Self (archive footage)

1975Aged 74

  • Poster for Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca

    (archive footage)

1974Aged 73

  • Poster for Blood for Dracula

    Marquis Di Fiore

  • Poster for We All Loved Each Other So Much

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Voyage

    Director

1973Aged 72

  • Poster for The Small Miracle

    Father Damico

  • Poster for Storia de fratelli e de cortelli

    Maresciallo Cenciarelli

  • Poster for The Assassination of Matteotti

    Mauro Del Giudice

  • Poster for Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for A Brief Vacation

    Director

1972Aged 71

  • Poster for Hector the Mighty

    Giove

  • Poster for Snow Job

    Enrico Dolphi

  • Poster for Scandal Man

    Milord

  • Poster for The Adventures of Pinocchio

    giudice

  • Poster for We'll Call Him Andrea

    Director

1971Aged 70

  • Poster for Mafia Things

    Don Michele

  • Poster for I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear

    Player in Venice casino

  • Poster for Trastevere

    Enrico Formichi

  • Poster for We Are All in Temporary Liberty

    Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'

1970Aged 69

  • Poster for Sunflower

    Director

  • Poster for Io e Dio

    Producer

  • Poster for The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

    Director

  • Poster for The Couples

    Director

1969Aged 68

  • Poster for If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

    Shoemaker

  • Poster for Twelve Plus One

    Di Seta

1968Aged 67

  • Poster for The Biggest Bundle of Them All

    Cesare Celli

  • Poster for Dear Caroline

    Le comte de Bièvre

  • Poster for The Shoes of the Fisherman

    Cardinal Rinaldi

  • Poster for A Place for Lovers

    Director

1967Aged 66

  • Poster for Cinéma et Réalité

    Self

  • Poster for Lionpower from MGM

    Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Poster for An Italian in America

    Lando Marossi

  • Poster for The Witches

    Director

  • Poster for Woman Times Seven

    Director

1966Aged 65

  • Poster for Me, Me, Me... and the Others

    Commendator Trepossi

  • Poster for Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti

    Self - Interviewee

  • Poster for After the Fox

    Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)

  • Poster for Gli altri, gli altri e noi

    Retired

  • Poster for A Young World

    Director

1965Aged 64

  • Poster for The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

    der Graf

  • Poster for Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde

    Self

  • Poster for Tokyo Olympiad

    Thanks

1964Aged 63

  • Poster for Sophia Loren in Rome

    Self

  • Poster for Marriage Italian Style

    Director

1963Aged 62

  • Poster for The Boom

    Director

  • Poster for Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    Director

1962Aged 61

  • Poster for Lafayette

    Bancroft

  • Poster for Lykke og krone

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Eva

    (uncredited)

  • Poster for Boccaccio '70

    Director

  • Poster for The Condemned of Altona

    Director

1961Aged 60

  • Poster for The Honored Society

    Salvatore il 'Capintesta'

  • Poster for Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!

    Ambassador of Spain

  • Poster for The Last Judgment

    Defense lawyer

  • Poster for The Wonders of Aladdin

    Genie

  • Poster for The Orderly

    Colonnello Filippo Bitossi

  • Poster for The Two Marshals

    Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone

1960Aged 59

  • Poster for Gastone

    The Prince

  • Poster for The Angel Wore Red

    General Clave

  • Poster for The Battle of Austerlitz

    le pape Pie VII

  • Poster for It Started in Naples

    Mario Vitale

  • Poster for Three Etc.'s and the Colonel

    Colonel Belalcazar

  • Poster for Le pillole di Ercole

    Colonel Piero Cuocolo

  • Poster for The Millionairess

    Joe

  • Poster for The Traffic Policeman

    Il sindaco

  • Poster for Love in Rome

    le réalisateur

  • Poster for Two Women

    Director

1959Aged 58

  • Poster for Venetian Honeymoon

    Alfredo

  • Poster for Nel blu dipinto di blu

    Spartaco

  • Poster for Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

    Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)

  • Poster for My Wife's Enemy

    professor Ottavio Tornabuoni

  • Poster for Men and Noblemen

    marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola

  • Poster for Winter Holidays

    Maurizio

  • Poster for Il mondo dei miracoli

    Director Pietro Giordani

  • Poster for The Moralist

    O.I.M.P. President

  • Poster for General Della Rovere

    Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'

  • Poster for Ferdinand I King of Naples

    Seccano

1958Aged 57

  • Poster for Love and Chatter

    Avvocato Bonelli

  • Poster for Domenica è sempre domenica

    Il 'comandante' Gastaldi

  • Poster for Fast and Sexy

    Don Luigi

  • Poster for Cannon Serenade

    Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän

  • Poster for Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina

    Self

  • Poster for Angel in a Taxi

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Inveterate Bachelor

    Il professore

  • Poster for The Girl of San Pietro Square

    Armando Conforti

  • Poster for Bread, Love and Andalucia

    Tonino

1957Aged 56

  • Poster for Fathers and Sons

    Vincenzo Corallo

  • Poster for The Guilty

    Giorgio Vasari

  • Poster for It Happened in Rome

    The Count

  • Poster for Il conte Max

    Conte Max Orsini Varaldo

  • Poster for Paris Casino

    Alexander Gordy

  • Poster for The Woman Who Came from the Sea

    Console Bordogin

  • Poster for Doctor and the Healer

    Antonio Locoratolo

  • Poster for A Farewell to Arms

    Major Rinaldi

  • Poster for Holiday Island

    Engineer Occhipinti

  • Poster for Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

    Marchese Vittorio De Vittti

1956Aged 55

  • Poster for The Bigamist

    Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince

  • Poster for I giorni più belli

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Nero's Mistress

    Seneca

  • Poster for Time of Vacation

    Aristide Rossi

  • Poster for The Monte Carlo Story

    Count Dino della Fiaba

  • Poster for Noi siamo le colonne

    Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato

  • Poster for The Roof

    Producer

1955Aged 54

  • Poster for The Sign of Venus

    Alessio Spano

  • Poster for It Happens in Roma

    Carlo Reani

  • Poster for The Miller's Beautiful Wife

    Don Teofilo - governatore

  • Poster for Roman Tales

    Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer

  • Poster for Scandal in Sorrento

    Maresciallo Carotenuto

1954Aged 53

  • Poster for Il matrimonio

    Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov

  • Poster for 100 Years of Love

    Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")

  • Poster for Gran varietà

    Veneziani

  • Poster for The Anatomy of Love

    Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio

  • Poster for The Secrets of the Bed

    Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")

  • Poster for Modern Virgin

    Antonio Valli

  • Poster for The Gold of Naples

    Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")

  • Poster for The Cheerful Squadron

    General

  • Poster for Frisky

    Maresciallo Carotenuto

  • Poster for Too Bad She's Bad

    Vittorio Stroppiani

1953Aged 52

  • Poster for The Earrings of Madame de...

    Baron Fabrizio Donati

  • Poster for It Happened in the Park

    Arturo Cavazzuti (segment "Incidente a Villa Borghese")

  • Poster for Bread, Love and Dreams

    Maresciallo Carotenuto

  • Poster for Indiscretion of an American Wife

    Producer

1952Aged 51

  • Poster for Hello Elephant

    Carlo Caretti

  • Poster for Times Gone By

    Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")

  • Poster for Umberto D.

    Producer

1951Aged 50

  • Poster for Position Wanted

    Leonardo Leonardi

  • Poster for Miracle in Milan

    Producer

  • Poster for Mamma mia, che impressione!

    Producer

1950Aged 49

  • Poster for Tomorrow Is Too Late

    Professor Landi

1948Aged 47

  • Poster for Unknown Men of San Marino

    Leo, l'ateo

  • Poster for Heart

    Master Perboni

  • Poster for Bicycle Thieves

    Screenplay

1947Aged 46

  • Poster for Lost in the Dark

    Carmine

  • Poster for Christmas at Camp 119

    Don Vicenzino

1946Aged 45

  • Poster for Il mondo vuole così

    Paolo Morelli

  • Poster for Rome: Free City

    Il signore distinto

  • Poster for Peddlin' in Society

    Il conte Ghirani

  • Poster for Shoeshine

    Director

1945Aged 44

  • Poster for No One Comes Back

    Maurizio

  • Poster for Lo sbaglio di essere vivo

    Adriano Lari

  • Poster for The Gates of Heaven

    Screenplay

1943Aged 42

  • Poster for Our Dreams

    Leo

  • Poster for The Children Are Watching Us

    Screenplay

1942Aged 41

  • Poster for If I Was Honest

    Pietro Kovach

  • Poster for A Garibaldian in the Convent

    Nino Bixio

  • Poster for La guardia del corpo

    Riccardo, investigatore privato

1941Aged 40

  • Poster for The Adventuress from the Floor Above

    Fabrizio Marchini

  • Poster for Teresa Venerdì

    Dott. Pietro Vignali

1940Aged 39

  • Poster for The Sinner

    Pietro Bandelli

  • Poster for Manon Lescaut

    Renato Des Grieux

  • Poster for Pazza di gioia

    Conte Corrado Valli

  • Poster for Red Roses

    Alberto Verani

  • Poster for Maddalena, Zero for Conduct

    Alfredo Hartman

1939Aged 38

  • Poster for Napoli che non muore

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Ai vostri ordini, signora...

    Pietro Haguet

  • Poster for Castles in the Air

    Riccardo Pietramola

  • Poster for Department Store

    Bruno Zacchi

  • Poster for It Always Ends That Way

    Alberto Milnar

1938Aged 37

  • Poster for Napoli d'altri tempi

    Mario Esposito

  • Poster for La mazurka di papà

    Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro

  • Poster for The Cuckoo Clock

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Hanno rapito un uomo

    L'attore cinematografico

  • Le due madri

    Salvatore

1937Aged 36

1936Aged 35

  • Poster for Lohengrin

    Alfredo

  • Poster for I Don't Know You Anymore

    Il dottore Alberto Spinelli

  • Poster for But It's Nothing Serious

    Memmo Speranza

1935Aged 34

  • Poster for I'll Give a Million

    Gold

  • Poster for Amo te sola

    Giovanni

1934Aged 33

  • Poster for La canzone del sole

    Paladino, l'avvocato

  • Poster for Full Speed

    Il professore Giacomo Banti

1933Aged 32

  • Poster for Un cattivo soggetto

    Willy

  • Poster for Lisetta

    Fritz Peters

  • Poster for Das Lied der Sonne

    Dr. Giuseppe Paladino

1932Aged 31

  • Poster for The Old Lady

    Fine dicitore

  • Poster for Two Happy Hearts

    Mr. Brown

  • Poster for What Scoundrels Men Are!

    Bruno

  • Poster for The Secretary for Everyone

    (Unknown)

1928Aged 27

1927Aged 26

1917Aged 16

  • Poster for The Clemenceau Affair

    Pierre Clémenceau bambino