Vittorio De Sica
Actor
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
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 1974
The Adventures of Pinocchio
as giudice 1972
The Earrings of Madame de...
as Baron Fabrizio Donati 1953
Blood for Dracula
as Marquis Di Fiore 1974
The Traffic Policeman
as Il sindaco 1960
Bread, Love and Dreams
as Maresciallo Carotenuto 1953
Scandal in Sorrento
as Maresciallo Carotenuto 1955
General Della Rovere
as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi' 1959
The Gold of Naples
as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori") 1954
The Sign of Venus
as Alessio Spano 1955
The Shoes of the Fisherman
as Cardinal Rinaldi 1968
After the Fox
as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited) 1966
It Started in Naples
as Mario Vitale 1960
Il conte Max
as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo 1957
The Two Marshals
as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone 1961
Too Bad She's Bad
as Vittorio Stroppiani 1954
Eva
as (uncredited) 1962