Cast & creator
Vittorio De Sica
Best known for Samedi soir, Cinépanorama, The Four Just Men
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.
Also known as: Витторио Де Сика, 비토리오 데 시카, ویتوریو دسیکا
231
film credits
8
television credits
176
1917–2026 · acting roles
6.9
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (239)
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Samedi soir
Self
1971
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
The Four Just Men
Ricco Poccari
1959
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974We All Loved Each Other So Much
Presenter
1974
Bicycle Thieves
Screenplay
1948Bicycle Thieves
Director
1948Bicycle Thieves
Producer
1948
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Giudice
1972Quelli che il cinema
Self
2025
A Farewell to Arms
Major Rinaldi
1957
Boccaccio '70
Director
1962
Sunflower
Director
1970
The Adventures of Pinocchio
giudice
1972
Two Women
Director
1960
The Gold of Naples
Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
1954The Gold of Naples
Director
1954The Gold of Naples
Screenplay
1954
General Della Rovere
Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
1959
Blood for Dracula
Marquis Di Fiore
1974
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Director
1963
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Cardinal Rinaldi
1968
Austerlitz
le pape Pie VII
1960
Woman Times Seven
Director
1967
It Started in Naples
Mario Vitale
1960
Marriage Italian Style
Director
1964
Too Bad She's Bad
Vittorio Stroppiani
1954
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Shoemaker
1969
Shoeshine
Director
1946
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Director
1970
The Roof
Director
1956The Roof
Producer
1956
Lafayette
Bancroft
1962
The Wonders of Aladdin
Genie
1961
It Happened in the Park
Arturo Cavazzuti (segment "Incidente a Villa Borghese")
1953
Umberto D.
Director
1952Umberto D.
Producer
1952
The Monte Carlo Story
Count Dino della Fiaba
1956
The Earrings of Madame de...
Baron Fabrizio Donati
1953
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
Cesare Celli
1968
The Witches
Director
1967
Miracle in Milan
Director
1951Miracle in Milan
Screenplay
1951Miracle in Milan
Producer
1951
Roman Tales
Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
1955
The Condemned of Altona
Director
1962
The Millionairess
Joe
1960
The Angel Wore Red
General Clave
1960
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
Dear Caroline
Le comte de Bièvre
1968
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2021
Bread, Love and Dreams
Maresciallo Carotenuto
1953
After the Fox
Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
1966After the Fox
Director
1966
Red Roses
Alberto Verani
1940Red Roses
Director
1940
100 Years of Love
Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
1954
The Cuckoo Clock
1938
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Director
1953Indiscretion of an American Wife
Producer
1953
Birth of the Republic
Director
1971Birth of the Republic
Writer
1971
The Sign of Venus
Alessio Spano
1955
Ferdinand I King of Naples
Seccano
1959
Frisky
Maresciallo Carotenuto
1954
Times Gone By
Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
1952
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
der Graf
1965
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Don Teofilo - governatore
1955
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
Self (archive footage)
2022
I giorni più belli
1956
The Secrets of the Bed
Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")
1954
Tokyo Olympiad
Thanks
1965
The Children Are Watching Us
Director
1943The Children Are Watching Us
Screenplay
1943
Hector the Mighty
Giove
1972
The Anatomy of Love
Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
1954
Tomorrow Is Too Late
Professor Landi
1950
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Commendator Trepossi
1966
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
Self (Archive Footage)
2026
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)
1967
Love in Rome
le réalisateur
1960
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self (archive footage)
2005
Cesare Zavattini
Self (archive footage)
2003
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
1971
Scandal in Sorrento
Maresciallo Carotenuto
1955
Cannon Serenade
Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
1958
Nero's Mistress
Seneca
1956
But It's Nothing Serious
Memmo Speranza
1936
The Cheerful Squadron
General
1954
Scandal Man
Milord
1972
Mafia Things
Don Michele
1971
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Ambassador of Spain
1961
The Voyage
Director
1974
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Self (archive footage)
2021
The Boom
Director
1963
Lykke og krone
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962
It Happened in Rome
The Count
1957
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
Maresciallo Cenciarelli
1973
Eva
(uncredited)
1962
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
Self (archive footage)
2001
Il mondo dei miracoli
Director Pietro Giordani
1959
Angel in a Taxi
1958
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Self
1985
Il conte Max
Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
1957
Sophia Loren in Rome
Self
1964
La mazurka di papà
Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
1938
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
(archive footage)
2004
Christmas at Camp 119
Don Vicenzino
1947Christmas at Camp 119
Screenplay
1947
If I Was Honest
Pietro Kovach
1942If I Was Honest
Screenplay
1942
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Spartaco
1959
Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
1973
Doctor and the Healer
Antonio Locoratolo
1957
Noi siamo le colonne
Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
1956
It Happens in Roma
Carlo Reani
1955
Mamma mia, che impressione!
Producer
1951
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
Self
1958
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
(archive footage)
1975
Bread, Love and Andalucia
Tonino
1958Bread, Love and Andalucia
Producer
1958Bread, Love and Andalucia
Original Music Composer
1958
The Man Who Smiles
Pio Fardella
1937
My Wife's Enemy
professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
1959
Napoli d'altri tempi
Mario Esposito
1938
The Couples
Director
1970The Couples
Writer
1970
A Place for Lovers
Director
1968
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
1957
Position Wanted
Leonardo Leonardi
1951
An Italian in America
Lando Marossi
1967
Il mondo vuole così
Paolo Morelli
1946
A Garibaldian in the Convent
Nino Bixio
1942A Garibaldian in the Convent
Director
1942A Garibaldian in the Convent
Screenplay
1942
The Gates of Heaven
Director
1945The Gates of Heaven
Screenplay
1945
The Girl of San Pietro Square
Armando Conforti
1958
Vittorio D.
Self (archive footage)
2009
The Last Judgment
Defense lawyer
1961The Last Judgment
Director
1961
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
1959
I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
Player in Venice casino
1971
The Bigamist
Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
1956
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
Self (archive footage)
2019
The Traffic Policeman
Il sindaco
1960
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
Fabrizio Marchini
1941
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
Alfredo Hartman
1940Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
Director
1940
Domenica è sempre domenica
Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
1958
What Scoundrels Men Are!
Bruno
1932
Le pillole di Ercole
Colonel Piero Cuocolo
1960
Fast and Sexy
Don Luigi
1958Fast and Sexy
Supervising Technical Director
1958Fast and Sexy
Original Music Composer
1958Fast and Sexy
Co-Director
1958
The Secretary for Everyone
1932
The Woman Who Came from the Sea
Console Bordogin
1957
Twelve Plus One
Di Seta
1969
Ai vostri ordini, signora...
Pietro Haguet
1939
Working with De Sica
Self (archive footage)
2007
Holiday Island
Engineer Occhipinti
1957
Fathers and Sons
Vincenzo Corallo
1957
Cinéma et Réalité
Self
1967
I Don't Know You Anymore
Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
1936
Winter Holidays
Maurizio
1959
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Self (archive footage)
1980
Unknown Men of San Marino
Leo, l'ateo
1948
The Assassination of Matteotti
Mauro Del Giudice
1973
Napoli che non muore
1939
Lisetta
Fritz Peters
1933
A Brief Vacation
Director
1973
Trastevere
Enrico Formichi
1971
Men and Noblemen
marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
1959
La canzone del sole
Paladino, l'avvocato
1934
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Colonel Belalcazar
1960
Venetian Honeymoon
Alfredo
1959
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
Adriano Lari
1945
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
Retired
1966
The Clemenceau Affair
Pierre Clémenceau bambino
1917
Hanno rapito un uomo
L'attore cinematografico
1938
The Moralist
O.I.M.P. President
1959
Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
Self - Interviewee
1966
Das Lied der Sonne
Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
1933
A Young World
Director
1966
The Two Marshals
Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
1961
The Inveterate Bachelor
Il professore
1958
Lost in the Dark
Carmine
1947Lost in the Dark
Screenplay
1947
Un cattivo soggetto
Willy
1933
Rome: Free City
Il signore distinto
1946
Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
Self
1965
Teresa Venerdì
Dott. Pietro Vignali
1941Teresa Venerdì
Director
1941Teresa Venerdì
Screenplay
1941
La guardia del corpo
Riccardo, investigatore privato
1942La guardia del corpo
Writer
1942
Gastone
The Prince
1960
Love and Chatter
Avvocato Bonelli
1958
Manon Lescaut
Renato Des Grieux
1940
Gran varietà
Veneziani
1954
I'll Give a Million
Gold
1935
The Sons of His Mistress
Author
2007
Snow Job
Enrico Dolphi
1972
The Honored Society
Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
1961
Mister Max
Gianni / Max Varaldo
1937
We'll Call Him Andrea
Director
1972
1960
Self (archive footage)
2010
Il matrimonio
Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
1954
Peddlin' in Society
Il conte Ghirani
1946
Time of Vacation
Aristide Rossi
1956
Heart
Master Perboni
1948Heart
Director
1948
Our Dreams
Leo
1943Our Dreams
Screenplay
1943
The Guilty
Giorgio Vasari
1957La bellezza del mondo
1927
It Always Ends That Way
Alberto Milnar
1939
Hello Elephant
Carlo Caretti
1952Hello Elephant
Producer
1952
Modern Virgin
Antonio Valli
1954
Two Happy Hearts
Mr. Brown
1932
Castles in the Air
Riccardo Pietramola
1939
The Small Miracle
Father Damico
1973
The Orderly
Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
1961
The Sinner
Pietro Bandelli
1940
Department Store
Bruno Zacchi
1939
Paris Casino
Alexander Gordy
1957
Pazza di gioia
Conte Corrado Valli
1940
Full Speed
Il professore Giacomo Banti
1934La compagnia dei matti
Prof. Rosolillo
1928
No One Comes Back
Maurizio
1945
I Love You Only
Giovanni
1935
Io e Dio
Producer
1970
The Old Lady
Fine dicitore
1932
Lohengrin
Alfredo
1936Le due madri
Salvatore
1938Questi ragazzi
Vincenzo
1937