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, and repeated that ... See full bio »

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Known For

Bicycle Thieves
Bicycle Thieves Director
(1948)
The Gold of Naples
The Gold of Naples Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
(1954)
Umberto D.
Umberto D. Director
(1952)
Il Generale Della Rovere
Il Generale Della Rovere Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
(1959)
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 1976 The Hero (TV Movie)
 1974 Blood for Dracula
Il Marchese Di Fiore
 1973 Il delitto Matteotti
Mauro Del Giudice
 1973 Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
Maresciallo Cenciarelli
 1973 The Small Miracle (TV Movie)
Father Damico
 1972 Le avventure di Pinocchio (TV Mini-Series)
Giudice
- Episode #1.4 (1972) ... Giudice
 1972 L'odeur des fauves
Milord
 1972 Snow Job
Enrico Dolphi
 1972 Hector the Mighty
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 De Seta - The Commendatore
 1969 Snow Job
Enrico Dolphi
 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 (as Vittorio de Sica)
 1967 An Italian in America
Giuseppe's Father
 1966 Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Commendator Trepossi
 1962 Eva (uncredited)
 1962 Lafayette
Bancroft
 1961 The Two Marshals
Maresciallo Vittorio Cottone (as De Sica)
 1961 The Orderly
Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
 1961 The Wonders of Aladdin
Genie
 1961 The Last Judgment
Defense lawyer
 1961 Vive Henri IV... vive l'amour!
L'ambassadeur d'Espagne (as Vittorio de Sica)
 1961 L'onorata società
Salvatore, the 'Capintesta'
 1961 Gli incensurati
Attore di Fumetti
 1960 Vita col padre e con la madre (TV Mini-Series)
Clarence Day
- Episode #1.4 (1960) ... Clarence Day
 1960 Un amore a Roma
Director
 1960 Il vigile
Il sindaco
 1960 The Millionairess
Joe (as Vittorio de Sica)
 1960 Le pillole di Ercole
Il colonello Piero Cuocolo
 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 The Angel Wore Red
Gen. Clave
 1960 Gastone
The prince
 1959 Nel blu dipinto di blu
Spartaco
 1959 Ferdinando I° re di Napoli
Salvatore Caputo
 1959 Il Generale Della Rovere
Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
 1959 The Moralist
The O. I. M. P. President
 1959 Il mondo dei miracoli
Director Pietro Giordani
 1959 Vacanze d'inverno
Maurice
 1959 Policarpo
Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
 1959 Men and Noblemen
Marchese Nicola Peccori Macinelli di Afragola
 1959 Il marito bello: Il nemico di mia moglie
Ottavio Tornabuoni
 1959 Venetian Honeymoon
Alfredo
 1958 The Girl of San Pietro Square
Armando Conforti
 1958 Bread, Love and Andalucia
Maresciallo Carotenuto
 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
Comandante Castaldi
 1958 Love and Chatter
Vittorio Bonelli
 1957 The Lady Doctor
Marchese De Vitti
 1957 Holiday Island
Ingegner Occhipinti
 1957 A Farewell to Arms
Major Alessandro Rinaldi
 1957 Il medico e lo stregone
Antonio Locoratolo
 1957 La donna che venne dal mare
Console Bordogin
 1957 Casino de Paris
Alexandre Gordy
 1957 Il conte Max
Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
 1957 It Happened in Rome
The Count
 1957 The Guilty
Giorgio Vasari
 1957 A Tailor's Maid
Vincenzo Corallo
 1956 Noi siamo le colonne
Alfredo Celimontani
 1956 Sulle strade di notte (TV Movie)
 1956 The Montecarlo Story
Count Dino della Fiaba
 1956 Time of Vacation
Aristide Rossi
 1956 Nero's Mistress
Seneca
 1956 The Bigamist
L'onorevole Principe
 1955 Scandal in Sorrento
Comandante Carotenuto
 1955 Roman Tales
Avvocato Mazzoni Baralla
 1955 The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Don Teofilo - governatore
 1955 It Happens in Roma
Carlo Reani
 1955 The Sign of Venus
Alessio Spano
 1954 Too Bad She's Bad
Vittorio Stroppiani
 1954 The Gold of Naples
Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
 1954 Frisky
Maresciallo Carotenuto
 1954 The Cheerful Squadron
Il generale
 1954 Modern Virgin
Antonio Valli
 1954 The Bed
Roberto (segment "Divorce, Le")
 1954 The Anatomy of Love
Il conte Ferdinando (segment "Don Corradino")
 1954 Gran varietà
Veneziani - il fine dicitore (segment "Il censore")
 1954 100 Years of Love
Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
 1954 Marriage
Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
 1953 Bread, Love and Dreams
Maresciallo Carotenuto
 1953 It Happened in the Park
L'avvocato Arturo Cavazzuti (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
 1953 The Earrings of Madame De...
Baron Fabrizio Donati
 1952 Times Gone By
L'Avvocato Difensore (segment "Il processo di Frine")
 1952 Hello Elephant
Carlo Caretti
 1951 Position Wanted
Leonardo Leonardi
 1950 Tomorrow Is Too Late
Professor Landi
 1948 Heart and Soul
Professor Perboni
 1948 Unknown Men of San Marino
Leo, l'ateo
 1947 Lost in the Dark
Nunzio
 1947 Natale al campo 119
Don Vicenzino
 1946 Il mondo vuole così
Paolo Morelli
 1946 Peddlin' in Society
Il conte Ghirani
 1946 Roma città libera
Il signore distinto
 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 A Garibaldian in the Convent
Nino Bixio (uncredited)
 1942 Se io fossi onesto
Pietro Kovach
 1941 Doctor, Beware
Dott. Pietro Vignali
 1941 The Adventuress from the Floor Above
Fabrizio Marchini
 1940 Attenzione! (Short)
 1940 Maddalena... zero in condotta
Alfredo Hartman
 1940 The Sinner
Pietro Bandelli
 1940 Rose scarlatte
Alberto Verani
 1940 Two on a Vacation
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
 1939 The Two Mothers
Salvatore
 1938 Departure
Paolo Veronda
 1938 L'orologio a cucù
Il capitano Ducci
 1938 They've Kidnapped a Man
L'attore cinematografico
 1938 Triumph of Love
Vincenzo
 1938 La mazurka di papà
Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
 1938 Naples of Former Days
Mario Esposito
 1937 Mister Max
Gianni / Max Varaldo
 1937 These Children
Vincenzo
 1937 The Man Who Smiles
Pio Fardella
 1936 I Don't Know You Anymore
Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
 1936 Lohengrin
Alfredo
 1936 But It's Nothing Serious
Memmo Speranza
 1936 I Love You Only
Prof. Giovanni Agano
 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 Bad Subject
Willy
 1933 La segretaria per tutti
Un gagà
 1933 Das Lied der Sonne
Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
 1933 The Lucky Diamond
Fritz Peters
 1933/II Paprika
 1932 Two Happy Hearts
Mister Brown
 1932 The Old Lady
Il fine dicitore
 1928 Company and the Crazy
Prof. Rosolillo
 1917 The Clemenceau Affair
Pierre Clémenceau bambino
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Alternate Names:

V. De Sica | De Sica | Vittorio de Sica

Height:

5' 9¼" (1.76 m)
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"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 »

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Is portrayed by Edmund Purdom in Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980) See more »

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