
Vittorio De Sica
Directing
176
Acting Credits
33
Directed
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...
Known For
Filmography

Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
2026
as Self (Archive Footage)
Quelli che il cinema
2025
as Self

The Garden That Doesn't Exist
2022
as Self (archive footage)

Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
as Self (archive footage)

We Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)

Sophia Loren, a special destiny
2019
as Self (archive footage)

1960
2010
as Self (archive footage)

Vittorio D.
2009
as Self (archive footage)

Working with De Sica
2007
as Self (archive footage)

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005
as Self (archive footage)

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
as (archive footage)

Cesare Zavattini
2003
as Self (archive footage)

That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
2001
as Self (archive footage)

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
as Self

My Name Is Anna Magnani
1980
as Self (archive footage)

Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
1975
as (archive footage)

Blood for Dracula
1974
as Marquis Di Fiore

We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Assassination of Matteotti
1973
as Mauro Del Giudice

Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
1973
as Maresciallo Cenciarelli

The Small Miracle
1973
as Father Damico

Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
1973

Snow Job
1972
as Enrico Dolphi

Hector the Mighty
1972
as Giove

Scandal Man
1972
as Milord

The Adventures of Pinocchio
1972
as giudice

The Adventures of Pinocchio
1972
as Giudice

Mafia Things
1971
as Don Michele

We Are All in Temporary Liberty
1971
as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'

Trastevere
1971
as Enrico Formichi

I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
1971
as Player in Venice casino
Samedi soir
1971
as Self

Twelve Plus One
1969
as Di Seta

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1969
as Shoemaker

The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968
as Cardinal Rinaldi

The Biggest Bundle of Them All
1968
as Cesare Celli

Dear Caroline
1968
as Le comte de Bièvre

Cinéma et Réalité
1967
as Self

An Italian in America
1967
as Lando Marossi

Lionpower from MGM
1967
as Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)

Me, Me, Me... and the Others
1966
as Commendator Trepossi

Gli altri, gli altri e noi
1966
as Retired

Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
1966
as Self - Interviewee

After the Fox
1966
as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
as der Graf

Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
1965
as Self

Sophia Loren in Rome
1964
as Self

Lafayette
1962
as Bancroft

Eva
1962
as (uncredited)

Lykke og krone
1962

The Two Marshals
1961
as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone

The Last Judgment
1961
as Defense lawyer

The Wonders of Aladdin
1961
as Genie

The Orderly
1961
as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
1961
as Ambassador of Spain

The Honored Society
1961
as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'

The Millionairess
1960
as Joe

The Traffic Policeman
1960
as Il sindaco

It Started in Naples
1960
as Mario Vitale

Austerlitz
1960
as le pape Pie VII

Love in Rome
1960
as le réalisateur

The Angel Wore Red
1960
as General Clave

Gastone
1960
as The Prince

Le pillole di Ercole
1960
as Colonel Piero Cuocolo

Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960
as Colonel Belalcazar

The Moralist
1959
as O.I.M.P. President

Ferdinand I King of Naples
1959
as Seccano

Winter Holidays
1959
as Maurizio

My Wife's Enemy
1959
as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni

Venetian Honeymoon
1959
as Alfredo

Il mondo dei miracoli
1959
as Director Pietro Giordani

Nel blu dipinto di blu
1959
as Spartaco

General Della Rovere
1959
as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
1959
as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)

Men and Noblemen
1959
as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola

The Four Just Men
1959
as Ricco Poccari

Bread, Love and Andalucia
1958
as Tonino

Domenica è sempre domenica
1958
as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi

Cannon Serenade
1958
as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän

Love and Chatter
1958
as Avvocato Bonelli

Fast and Sexy
1958
as Don Luigi

Angel in a Taxi
1958

The Inveterate Bachelor
1958
as Il professore

The Girl of San Pietro Square
1958
as Armando Conforti

Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
1958
as Self

Il conte Max
1957
as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
1957
as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti

A Farewell to Arms
1957
as Major Rinaldi

Doctor and the Healer
1957
as Antonio Locoratolo

Fathers and Sons
1957
as Vincenzo Corallo

Holiday Island
1957
as Engineer Occhipinti

Paris Casino
1957
as Alexander Gordy

The Woman Who Came from the Sea
1957
as Console Bordogin

It Happened in Rome
1957
as The Count

The Guilty
1957
as Giorgio Vasari

Nero's Mistress
1956
as Seneca

The Monte Carlo Story
1956
as Count Dino della Fiaba

Noi siamo le colonne
1956
as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato

I giorni più belli
1956

Time of Vacation
1956
as Aristide Rossi

The Bigamist
1956
as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince

Cinépanorama
1956
as Self

The Miller's Beautiful Wife
1955
as Don Teofilo - governatore

Scandal in Sorrento
1955
as Maresciallo Carotenuto

The Sign of Venus
1955
as Alessio Spano

It Happens in Roma
1955
as Carlo Reani

Roman Tales
1955
as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer

Too Bad She's Bad
1954
as Vittorio Stroppiani

Gran varietà
1954
as Veneziani

The Gold of Naples
1954
as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")

Frisky
1954
as Maresciallo Carotenuto

The Anatomy of Love
1954
as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio

The Secrets of the Bed
1954
as Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")

100 Years of Love
1954
as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")

Il matrimonio
1954
as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov

The Cheerful Squadron
1954
as General

Modern Virgin
1954
as Antonio Valli

The Earrings of Madame de...
1953
as Baron Fabrizio Donati

Bread, Love and Dreams
1953
as Maresciallo Carotenuto

It Happened in the Park
1953
as Arturo Cavazzuti (segment "Incidente a Villa Borghese")

Times Gone By
1952
as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")

Hello Elephant
1952
as Carlo Caretti

Position Wanted
1951
as Leonardo Leonardi

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

Tomorrow Is Too Late
1950
as Professor Landi

Unknown Men of San Marino
1948
as Leo, l'ateo

Heart
1948
as Master Perboni

Lost in the Dark
1947
as Carmine

Christmas at Camp 119
1947
as Don Vicenzino

Peddlin' in Society
1946
as Il conte Ghirani

Il mondo vuole così
1946
as Paolo Morelli

Rome: Free City
1946
as Il signore distinto

No One Comes Back
1945
as Maurizio

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945
as Adriano Lari

Our Dreams
1943
as Leo

A Garibaldian in the Convent
1942
as Nino Bixio

If I Was Honest
1942
as Pietro Kovach

La guardia del corpo
1942
as Riccardo, investigatore privato

Teresa Venerdì
1941
as Dott. Pietro Vignali

The Adventuress from the Floor Above
1941
as Fabrizio Marchini

Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
1940
as Alfredo Hartman

Red Roses
1940
as Alberto Verani

The Sinner
1940
as Pietro Bandelli

Manon Lescaut
1940
as Renato Des Grieux

Pazza di gioia
1940
as Conte Corrado Valli

Castles in the Air
1939
as Riccardo Pietramola

Napoli che non muore
1939

Ai vostri ordini, signora...
1939
as Pietro Haguet

Department Store
1939
as Bruno Zacchi

It Always Ends That Way
1939
as Alberto Milnar

Hanno rapito un uomo
1938
as L'attore cinematografico

La mazurka di papà
1938
as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro

The Cuckoo Clock
1938
Le due madri
1938
as Salvatore

Napoli d'altri tempi
1938
as Mario Esposito

Mister Max
1937
as Gianni / Max Varaldo
Questi ragazzi
1937
as Vincenzo

The Man Who Smiles
1937
as Pio Fardella

But It's Nothing Serious
1936
as Memmo Speranza

Lohengrin
1936
as Alfredo

I Don't Know You Anymore
1936
as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli

I Love You Only
1935
as Giovanni

I'll Give a Million
1935
as Gold

Full Speed
1934
as Il professore Giacomo Banti

La canzone del sole
1934
as Paladino, l'avvocato

Lisetta
1933
as Fritz Peters

Un cattivo soggetto
1933
as Willy

Das Lied der Sonne
1933
as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino

What Scoundrels Men Are!
1932
as Bruno

Two Happy Hearts
1932
as Mr. Brown

The Secretary for Everyone
1932

The Old Lady
1932
as Fine dicitore
La compagnia dei matti
1928
as Prof. Rosolillo
La bellezza del mondo
1927

The Clemenceau Affair
1917
as Pierre Clémenceau bambino

