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Vittorio De Sica (1901–1974)

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Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee idol of the Italian theatre... See full bio »

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in Sora, Lazio, Italy

Died:

(age 73) in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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1974 Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
Maresciallo Cenciarelli
 
1974 The Small Miracle (TV movie)
Father Damico
 
1974 Andy Warhol's Dracula
Il Marchese Di Fiore
 
1974 Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
 
1974 The Hero (TV movie)
 
1973 Il delitto Matteotti
Mauro Del Giudice
 
1972 The Adventures of Pinocchio (TV mini-series)
Giudice (1972)
 
1972 L'odeur des fauves
Milord
 
1972 Snow Job
Enrico Dolphi
 
1972 Hector the Mighty
Cardinale Giove
 
1971 We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
 
1971 Trastevere
Enrico Formichi
 
1971 Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente
Player in Venice casino
 
1971 Cose di Cosa Nostra
Don Michele
 
1969 12 + 1
Carlo Di Seta - The Commadatore
 
1969 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Shoemaker
 
1968/I The Shoes of the Fisherman
Cardinal Rinaldi
 
1968 Dear Caroline
Le comte de Bièvre - le père de Caroline (as Vittorio de Sica)
 
1968 The Biggest Bundle of Them All
Cesare Celli
 
1967 An Italian in America
Giuseppe's Father
 
1967 Gli altri, gli altri e noi
 
1966 Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Commendator Trepossi
 
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
The Count
 
1962 Eva (uncredited)
 
1962 Le pillole di Ercole
Piero Cuocolo
 
1961 The Two Marshals
Maresciallo Vittorio Cottone (as De Sica)
 
1961 The Orderly
Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
 
1961 Le meraviglie di Aladino
Genie
 
1961 The Last Judgment
Defense lawyer
 
1961 Vive Henri IV... vive l'amour!
L'ambassadeur d'Espagne
 
1961 L'onorata società
Salvatore, the 'Capintesta'
 
1961 Gli incensurati
Attore di Fumetti
 
1961 Lafayette
Bancroft
 
1960 Love in Rome
Director
 
1960 The Millionairess
Joe (as Vittorio de Sica)
 
1960 Le tre eccetera del colonnello
Colonel Belalcazar
 
1959-1960 The Four Just Men (TV series)
Ricco Poccari
– Treviso Dam (1960) … Ricco Poccari
– The Last Days of Nick Pompey (1960) … Ricco Poccari (uncredited)
– Rogue's Harvest (1960) … Ricco Poccari
– The Man in the Royal Suite (1960) … Ricco Poccari
– The Boy Without a Country (1960) … Ricco Poccari (uncredited)
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1960 It Started in Naples
Mario Vitale
 
1960 The Battle of Austerlitz
Pope Pius VII
 
1960 Men and Noblemen
Marchese Nicola
 
1960 The Angel Wore Red
Gen. Clave
 
1960 Vita col padre e con la madre (TV mini-series)
Clarence Day
 
1960 Gastone
The prince
 
1960 Il vigile
Il sindaco
 
1959 Ferdinando I. re di Napoli
Seccano
 
1959 Il Generale della Rovere
Victorio Emanuele Bardone/Grimaldi
 
1959 Il moralista
The O. I. M. P. President
 
1959 Il mondo dei miracoli
Director Pietro Giordani
 
1959 Vacanze d'inverno
Maurice
 
1959 Policarpo
Prestigiatore
 
1959 Il nemico di mia moglie
Ottavio Terenzi, padre di Marco
 
1959 Venetian Honeymoon
Alfredo
 
1959 Nel blu dipinto di blu
Spartaco
 
1958 Bread, Love and Andalucia
Tonino
 
1958 The Girl of San Pietro Square
Armando Conforti
 
1958 Gli zitelloni
Il professore
 
1958 Angel in a Taxi
God
 
1958 Always Victorious
Il comandante Ernesto De Rossi
 
1958 Fast and Sexy
Don Luigi
 
1958 Sunday Is Always Sunday
Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
 
1958 Love and Chatter
Avvocato Bonelli
 
1957 The Lady Doctor
Marchese De Vitti
 
1957 Holiday Island
Engineer Occhipinti
 
1957 A Farewell to Arms
Major Alessandro Rinaldi
 
1957 Doctor and the Healer
Antonio Locoratolo
 
1957 Count Max
Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
 
1957 La donna che venne dal mare
Console Bordogin
 
1957 Casino de Paris
Alexandre Gordy
 
1957 It Happened in Rome
The Count
 
1957 The Guilty
Giorgio
 
1957 A Tailor's Maid
Vincenzo Corallo
 
1956 Monte Carlo
Count Dino della Fiaba
 
1956 Time of Vacation
Aristide Rossi
 
1956 Nero's Mistress
Seneca
 
1956 I giorni più belli
 
1956 The Bigamist
L'onorevole Principe/Attorney Principe
 
1956 Lucky to Be a Woman
Minor Role (uncredited)
 
1956 Sulle strade di notte (TV movie)
 
1956 Noi siamo le colonne
Alfredo Celimontani
 
1955 Scandal in Sorrento
Maresciallo Carotenuto
 
1955 Roman Tales
Avvocato Mazzoni Baralla
 
1955 The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Don Teofilo - governatore
 
1955 It Happens in Roma
Carlo Reani
 
1955 Il segno di Venere
Alessio Spano
 
1955 Too Bad She's Bad
Vittorio Stroppiani
 
1954 The Gold of Naples
Count Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori") (uncredited)
 
1954 Frisky
Il maresciallo Antonio Carotenuto
 
1954 The Cheerful Squadron
Il generale
 
1954 Modern Virgin
Antonio Valli
 
1954 The Bed
Roberto (segment "Divorce, Le")
 
1954 100 Years of Love
Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
 
1954 The Anatomy of Love
Il conte Ferdinando (segment "Don Corradino")
 
1954 Gran varietà
Veneziani - il fine dicitore (segment "Il censore")
 
1954 Marriage
Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
 
1953 It Happened in the Park
Avvocato Arturo Cavazzuti
 
1953 Bread, Love and Dreams
Il maresciallo Antonio Carotenuto
 
1953 The Earrings of Madame de...
Baron Fabrizio Donati
 
1952 Times Gone By
Attorney (segment "Il processo di Frine")
 
1952 Hello Elephant
Carlo Caretti
 
1951 Position Wanted
Leonardo Leonardi
 
1950 Tomorrow Is Too Late
Professor Landi
 
1949 Il mondo vuole così
Paolo Morelli
 
1949 Lost in the Dark
Nunzio
 
1948 Heart and Soul
Professor Perboni
 
1948 Lo sconosciuto di San Marino
Leo, l'ateo
 
1947 Natale al campo 119
Don Vicenzino
 
1946 Peddlin' in Society
Il conte Ghirani
 
1946 Roma città libera (La notte porta consiglio)
Distinguished Gentleman
 
1945 My Widow and I
Adriano Lari
 
1945 Vivere ancora
 
1945 L'ippocampo
Pio Sandi
 
1945 Responsibility Comes Back
Maurizio
 
1943 Our Dreams
Leo
 
1943 Non sono superstizioso... ma!
Il barone Roberto
 
1942 La guardia del corpo
Riccardo, L'investigatore privato
 
1942 Un garibaldino al convento
Nino Bixio (uncredited)
 
1942 Se io fossi onesto
Pietro Kovach
 
1941 Do You Like Women
Il dottore Pietro Vignali
 
1941 L'avventuriera del piano di sopra
Fabrizio Marchini
 
1940 Maddalena... zero in condotta
Alfredo Hartman
 
1940 The Sinner
Pietro Bandelli
 
1940 The Two Mothers
Salvatore
 
1940 La mazurka di papà
Stefano San Mauro
 
1940 Rose scarlatte
Alberto Verani
 
1940 Pazza di gioia
Il conte Corrado Valli
 
1940 Manon Lescaut
Renato Des Grieux
 
1939 It Always Ends That Way
Alberto Miller
 
1939 Department Store
Bruno Zacchi
 
1939 Castles in the Air
Riccardo Pietramola
 
1939 Ai vostri ordini, signora
Pietro Haguet
 
1938 They've Kidnapped a Man
L'attore cinematografico
 
1938 Departure
Paolo Veronda
 
1938 L'orologio a cucù
Il capitano Ducci
 
1938 Triumph of Love
Vincenzo
 
1938 Naples of Former Days
Mario Esposito
 
1937 Mister Max
Gianni/Max Varaldo
 
1937 The Man Who Smiles
Pio Fardella
 
1937 These Children
Vincenzo
 
1937 But It's Nothing Serious
Memmo Speranza
 
1936 I Love You Only
Prof. Giovanni Agano
 
1936 I Don't Know You Anymore
Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
 
1936 Lohengrin
Alfredo
 
1935 I'll Give a Million
Gold
 
1934 Full Speed
Il professore Giacomo Banti
 
1934 Mr. Desire
Martino
 
1934 The Song of the Sun
Paladino, il avvocato
 
1933 Das Lied der Sonne
Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
 
1933 The Lucky Diamond
Fritz Peters
 
1933 Love Passes By
 
1933/II Paprika
 
1933 Bad Subject
Willy
 
1933 La segretaria per tutti
Un gagà
 
1932 The Old Lady
Il fine dicitore
 
1932 What Scoundrels Men Are!
Bruno
 
1932 Two Happy Hearts
Mister Brown
 
1928 Company and the Crazy
Prof. Rosolillo
 
1927 Beauty of the World
 
1917 The Clemenceau Affair
Pierre Clémenceau bambino
 
Show ShowDirector (36 titles)
1974 The Voyage
 
1973 A Brief Vacation
 
1972 Lo chiameremo Andrea
 
1971 I cavalieri di Malta (TV documentary)
 
1971 Dal referendum alla costituzione: Il 2 giugno (TV documentary)
 
1970 Le coppie (segment "Leone, Il")
 
1970 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
 
1970 Sunflower
 
1968 A Place for Lovers
 
1967 Woman Times Seven
 
1967 The Witches (segment "Sera come le altre, Una")
 
1966 After the Fox
 
1966 Un monde nouveau
 
1964 Marriage Italian Style
 
1963 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
 
1963 Il boom
 
1962 The Condemned of Altona
 
1962 Boccaccio '70 (segment "La riffa")
 
1961 The Last Judgment
 
1960 Two Women
 
1958 Fast and Sexy (supervising director)
 
1956 The Roof
 
1954 The Gold of Naples
 
1953 It Happened in the Park
 
1953 Indiscretion of an American Wife
 
1952 Umberto D.
 
1951 Miracle in Milan
 
1948 Bicycle Thieves
 
1948 Heart and Soul (children's scenes)
 
1946 Shoeshine
 
1945 La porta del cielo
 
1944 The Children Are Watching Us
 
1942 Un garibaldino al convento
 
1941 Do You Like Women
 
1940 Maddalena... zero in condotta
 
1940 Rose scarlatte
 
Show ShowWriter (23 titles)
1994 Abadani-Ha
 
1971 Dal referendum alla costituzione: Il 2 giugno (TV documentary)
 
1970 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (uncredited)
 
1960 Two Women (screenplay - uncredited)
 
1954 The Gold of Naples (screenplay)
 
1953 Bread, Love and Dreams (story and screenplay)
 
1951 Miracle in Milan (screenplay)
 
1949 Lost in the Dark (screenplay)
 
1948 Bicycle Thieves (writer)
 
1947 Natale al campo 119 (screenplay / as V. De Sica)
 
1946 Peddlin' in Society (screenplay - uncredited / story - uncredited)
 
1946 Il marito povero (screenplay)
 
1945 L'ippocampo (screenplay)
 
1945 La porta del cielo (screenplay)
 
1944 The Children Are Watching Us (screenplay)
 
1943 Our Dreams (screenplay)
 
1943 Non sono superstizioso... ma! (screenplay)
 
1942 La guardia del corpo (screenplay)
 
1942 Un garibaldino al convento (screenplay)
 
1942 Se io fossi onesto (screenplay)
 
1941 Do You Like Women (screenplay)
 
1941 L'avventuriera del piano di sopra (screenplay - uncredited)
 
1940 Maddalena... zero in condotta (dialogue - uncredited)
 
Show ShowProducer (8 titles)
1958 Bread, Love and Andalucia (producer)
 
1956 The Roof (producer)
 
1953 Indiscretion of an American Wife (producer)
 
1952 Hello Elephant (producer)
 
1952 Umberto D. (producer - as De Sica)
 
1951 Miracle in Milan (producer)
 
1951 Mamma mia, che impressione! (producer)
 
1948 Bicycle Thieves (producer - uncredited)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (4 titles)
1955 Scandal in Sorrento (performer: "Torna a Surriento" - uncredited)
 
1954 Frisky (performer: "Miserere... Quel suon, quelle preci solenni" - uncredited)
 
1938 They've Kidnapped a Man (lyrics: "Amarsi quando piove", "Canzone sospirata" / as V. De Sica / performer: "Amarsi quando piove", "Canzone sospirata")
 
1932 What Scoundrels Men Are! (performer: "Parlami d'amore Mariù")
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (2 titles)
1958 Bread, Love and Andalucia (supervisor)
 
1945 L'ippocampo (supervising director - uncredited)
 
Show ShowComposer (1 title)
1958 Fast and Sexy
 
1950 Tomorrow Is Too Late (artistic advisor)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
1974 We All Loved Each Other So Much (dedicatee)
 
Show ShowSelf (13 titles)
2009 Vittorio D. (documentary)
Himself
 
1974 Vittorio De Sica, the Director, the Actor, the Man (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1972 Film Night (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 1 July 1972 (1972) … Himself
 
1972 The David Frost Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #4.89 (1972) … Himself
– Episode #4.76 (1972) … Himself
 
1969-1971 Gala de l'union (TV series)
Himself
– 38ème gala de l'union des artistes (1971) … Himself
– 36ème gala de l'union des artistes (1969) … Himself
 
1970 Rom aktuell (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Episode #1.2 (1970) … Himself
 
1968 Sophia: A Self-Portrait (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1968/II The Shoes of the Fisherman (documentary short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1966 After the Fox
Himself (uncredited)
 
1966 Sunday Night (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti (1966) … Himself
 
1965 Cinéastes de notre temps (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Max Ophuls ou Le plaisir de tourner (1965) … Himself
 
1958 Cinépanorama (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Episode dated 27 December 1958 (1958) … Himself
 
1958 Portrait of Gina (TV documentary)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (15 titles)
2010 1960 (documentary)
Himself
 
2010 Pupi Avati, ieri, oggi, domani
 
2007 Danielle Darrieux, une vie de cinéma (TV movie)
Himself
 
2006 Marcello, una vita dolce (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (documentary)
Himself
 
2004 How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio (documentary)
 
2000 Roberto Rossellini: Frammenti e battute (documentary)
General della Rovere
 
1996 Nitrate Base
Himself
 
1988 Cinema Paradiso
Count Prospero B. (uncredited)
 
1980 My Name Is Anna Magnani (documentary)
Himself
 
1975 Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
 
1974 We All Loved Each Other So Much
Himself (uncredited)
 
1974 Aquarius (TV series)
 
1967 Lionpower from MGM (short)
Cesare Celli (uncredited)
 
1962 Lykke og krone (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 

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Alternate Names:

V. De Sica | De Sica | Vittorio de Sica

Height:

5' 9¼" (1.76 m)
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Personal Quote:

"Bicycle Thieves" is a good picture. I like very much. But some concession to sentimentality. A little concession. "Umberto D" never. Nothing. Without compromise. But it was too early. Many pictures of mine this way. Now is a great success. Then, nothing. Oh, a little. The intelligentsia accept "Umberto D." But the audience -- no, nothing. Too early. Too early. See more »

Trivia:

De Sica continued to act in films in order to finance his own projects. See more »

Star Sign:

Cancer