Vittorio De Sica
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.
Acting
Movie
We All Loved Each Other So Much
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
Movie
The Adventures of Pinocchio
as giudice
1972
Movie
The Earrings of Madame de...
as Baron Fabrizio Donati
1953
Movie
Blood for Dracula
as Marquis Di Fiore
1974
Movie
Bread, Love and Dreams
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
1953
Movie
The Traffic Policeman
as Il sindaco
1960
Movie
Scandal in Sorrento
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
1955
Movie
General Della Rovere
as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
1959
Movie
The Gold of Naples
as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
1954
Movie
The Sign of Venus
as Alessio Spano
1955
Movie
The Shoes of the Fisherman
as Cardinal Rinaldi
1968
Movie
It Started in Naples
as Mario Vitale
1960
Movie
After the Fox
as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
1966
Movie
Il conte Max
as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
1957
Movie
The Two Marshals
as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
1961
Movie
Too Bad She's Bad
as Vittorio Stroppiani
1954
Movie
Frisky
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
1954
Movie
Eva
as (uncredited)
1962
Movie
A Farewell to Arms
as Major Rinaldi
1957
Movie
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
as Don Teofilo - governatore
1955
Movie
The Moralist
as O.I.M.P. President
1959
Movie
The Millionairess
as Joe
1960
Movie
The Battle of Austerlitz
as le pape Pie VII
1960
Movie
The Last Judgment
as Defense lawyer
1961
Crew
Movie
Bicycle Thieves
Director
1948
Movie
Umberto D.
Director
1952
Movie
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Presenter
1974
Movie
Two Women
Director
1960
Movie
Marriage Italian Style
Director
1964
Movie
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Director
1963
Movie
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Director
1970
Movie
Shoeshine
Director
1946
Movie
Miracle in Milan
Director
1951
Movie
Sunflower
Director
1970
Movie
Boccaccio '70
Director
1962
Movie
The Gold of Naples
Director
1954