8.5
8.5
Angel in a Taxi
1958
Vittorio De Sica
Also known as: Vittorio de Sica
Directing
Born:July 7, 1901
Died:November 13, 1974(aged 73)
Birthplace:Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
Nationality:Italy
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CommunityBiography
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.
Notable Works
Bicycle ThievesUmberto D.The Children Are Watching UsMiracle in MilanTwo WomenShoeshineMarriage Italian-StyleMaddalena, zero in condotta
Filmography (190 movies)
8.2
8.2
Position Wanted
1951
as Leonardo Leonardi
8.2
8.2
Bicycle Thieves
1948
Director
8.0
8.0
If I Was Honest
1942
Screenplay
8.0
8.0
My Name Is Anna Magnani
1980
as Self (archive footage)
7.9
7.9
Umberto D.
1952
Director
7.8
7.8
Two Women
1960
Director
7.8
7.8
Shoeshine
1946
Director
7.7
7.7
Marriage Italian Style
1964
Director
7.6
7.6
The Children Are Watching Us
1943
Director
7.5
7.5
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1972
as giudice
7.5
7.5
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
1963
Director
7.5
7.5
Sunflower
1970
Director
7.5
7.5
The Earrings of Madame de...
1953
as Baron Fabrizio Donati
7.4
7.4
General Della Rovere
1959
as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
7.4
7.4
The Roof
1956
Director
7.4
7.4
The Traffic Policeman
1960
as Il sindaco
7.3
7.3
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
as Self (archive footage)
7.3
7.3
The Gold of Naples
1954
Director
7.3
7.3
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
1959
as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
7.3
7.3
Miracle in Milan
1951
Director
7.2
7.2
Frisky
1954
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
7.2
7.2
The Two Marshals
1961
as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
7.1
7.1
Doctor and the Healer
1957
as Antonio Locoratolo
7.1
7.1
Il conte Max
1957
as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
7.0
7.0
Bread, Love and Dreams
1953
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
7.0
7.0
I giorni più belli
1956
7.0
7.0
The Girl of San Pietro Square
1958
as Armando Conforti
7.0
7.0
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
2019
as Self (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
100 Years of Love
1954
as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
7.0
7.0
The Condemned of Altona
1962
Director
6.9
6.9
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970
Director
6.9
6.9
Scandal in Sorrento
1955
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
6.9
6.9
What Scoundrels Men Are!
1932
as Bruno
6.9
6.9
Too Bad She's Bad
1954
as Vittorio Stroppiani
6.9
6.9
Boccaccio '70
1962
Director
6.8
6.8
The Boom
1963
Director
6.8
6.8
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
1941
as Fabrizio Marchini
6.8
6.8
I'll Give a Million
1935
as Gold
6.8
6.8
Trastevere
1971
as Enrico Formichi
6.8
6.8
We'll Call Him Andrea
1972
Director
6.8
6.8
The Sign of Venus
1955
as Alessio Spano
6.7
6.7
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968
as Cardinal Rinaldi
6.7
6.7
The Couples
1970
Director
6.7
6.7
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
as (archive footage)
6.7
6.7
Fathers and Sons
1957
as Vincenzo Corallo
6.7
6.7
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
1958
as Self
6.7
6.7
The Gate of Heaven
1945
Screenplay
6.6
6.6
The Battle of Austerlitz
1960
as le pape Pie VII
6.6
6.6
Teresa Venerdì
1941
Director
6.6
6.6
The Assassination of Matteotti
1973
as Mauro Del Giudice
6.6
6.6
Christmas at Camp 119
1947
Screenplay
6.6
6.6
The Bigamist
1956
as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
6.6
6.6
Winter Holidays
1959
as Maurizio
6.5
6.5
Ferdinand I King of Naples
1959
as Seccano
6.5
6.5
A Garibaldian in the Convent
1942
Director
6.5
6.5
I Don't Know You Anymore
1936
as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
6.5
6.5
Il matrimonio
1954
as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
6.5
6.5
La donna che venne dal mare
1957
as Console Bordogin
6.4
6.4
The Anatomy of Love
1954
as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
6.4
6.4
The Moralist
1959
as O.I.M.P. President
6.4
6.4
Domenica è sempre domenica
1958
as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
6.4
6.4
It Happened in the Park
1953
as Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
6.4
6.4
The Last Judgment
1961
Director
6.3
6.3
It Started in Naples
1960
as Mario Vitale
6.3
6.3
Vittorio D.
2009
as Self (archive footage)
6.2
6.2
Woman Times Seven
1967
Director
6.2
6.2
Mister Max
1937
as Gianni / Max Varaldo
6.2
6.2
Bread, Love and Andalucia
1958
Producer
6.2
6.2
Time of Vacation
1956
as Aristide Rossi
6.2
6.2
Heart
1948
Director
6.2
6.2
The Garden That Doesn't Exist
2022
as Self (archive footage)
6.2
6.2
The Guilty
1957
as Giorgio Vasari
6.1
6.1
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
1940
Director
6.1
6.1
Men and Noblemen
1959
as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
6.1
6.1
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
1966
as Commendator Trepossi
6.1
6.1
Holiday Island
1957
as Engineer Occhipinti
6.1
6.1
Love and Chatter
1958
as Avvocato Bonelli
6.1
6.1
Gran varietà
1954
as Veneziani
6.0
6.0
The Witches
1967
Director
6.0
6.0
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
2001
as Self (archive footage)
6.0
6.0
Nel blu dipinto di blu
1959
as Spartaco
6.0
6.0
Red Roses
1940
Director
6.0
6.0
The Orderly
1961
as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
6.0
6.0
I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
1971
as Player in Venice casino
6.0
6.0
Pazza di gioia
1940
as Conte Corrado Valli
6.0
6.0
La compagnia dei matti
1928
as Prof. Rosolillo
6.0
6.0
After the Fox
1966
Director
5.9
5.9
Roman Tales
1955
as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
5.9
5.9
Indiscretion of an American Wife
1953
Producer
5.9
5.9
A Farewell to Arms
1957
as Major Rinaldi
5.8
5.8
Eva
1962
as (uncredited)
5.8
5.8
Tomorrow Is Too Late
1950
as Professor Landi
5.8
5.8
Department Store
1939
as Bruno Zacchi
5.8
5.8
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1969
as Shoemaker
5.7
5.7
A Brief Vacation
1973
Director
5.7
5.7
Gastone
1960
as The Prince
5.7
5.7
The Cheerful Squadron
1954
as General
5.7
5.7
The Honored Society
1961
as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
5.7
5.7
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
1973
as Maresciallo Cenciarelli
5.7
5.7
Hello Elephant
1952
Producer
5.7
5.7
Blood for Dracula
1974
as Marquis Di Fiore
5.6
5.6
Nero's Mistress
1956
as Seneca
5.6
5.6
The Monte Carlo Story
1956
as Count Dino della Fiaba
5.6
5.6
Mamma mia, che impressione!
1951
Producer
5.5
5.5
Mafia Things
1971
as Don Michele
5.5
5.5
Peddlin' in Society
1946
as Il conte Ghirani
5.5
5.5
The Sinner
1940
as Pietro Bandelli
5.4
5.4
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
as der Graf
5.4
5.4
It Happened in Rome
1957
as The Count
5.4
5.4
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
1968
as Cesare Celli
5.4
5.4
My Wife's Enemy
1959
as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
5.4
5.4
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
1955
as Don Teofilo - governatore
5.4
5.4
The Millionairess
1960
as Joe
5.3
5.3
Fast and Sexy
1958
as Don Luigi
5.3
5.3
But It's Nothing Serious
1936
as Memmo Speranza
5.2
5.2
Love in Rome
1960
as le réalisateur
5.2
5.2
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
1961
as Ambassador of Spain
5.2
5.2
Lafayette
1962
as Bancroft
5.2
5.2
1960
2010
as Self (archive footage)
5.2
5.2
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
1957
as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
5.2
5.2
Twelve Plus One
1969
as Di Seta
5.1
5.1
An Italian in America
1967
as Lando Marossi
5.0
5.0
The Inveterate Bachelor
1958
as Il professore
5.0
5.0
Full Speed
1934
as Il professore Giacomo Banti
5.0
5.0
Hector the Mighty
1972
as Giove
5.0
5.0
Hanno rapito un uomo
1938
as L'attore cinematografico
5.0
5.0
Paris Casino
1957
as Alexander Gordy
5.0
5.0
Castles in the Air
1939
as Riccardo Pietramola
5.0
5.0
No One Comes Back
1945
as Maurizio
5.0
5.0
Our Dreams
1943
Screenplay
5.0
5.0
The Cuckoo Clock
1938
5.0
5.0
Das Lied der Sonne
1933
as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
5.0
5.0
Amo te sola
1935
as Giovanni
5.0
5.0
Modern Virgin
1954
as Antonio Valli
5.0
5.0
The Voyage
1974
Director
4.9
4.9
Times Gone By
1952
as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
4.9
4.9
The Wonders of Aladdin
1961
as Genie
4.9
4.9
Rome: Free City
1946
as Il signore distinto
4.9
4.9
A Place for Lovers
1968
Director
4.8
4.8
The Angel Wore Red
1960
as General Clave
4.8
4.8
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
1975
as (archive footage)
4.8
4.8
Unknown Men of San Marino
1948
as Leo, l'ateo
4.7
4.7
It Happens in Roma
1955
as Carlo Reani
4.5
4.5
Lionpower from MGM
1967
4.5
4.5
Dear Caroline
1968
as Le comte de Bièvre
4.4
4.4
Snow Job
1972
as Enrico Dolphi
4.3
4.3
The Clemenceau Affair
1917
as Pierre Clémenceau bambino
4.0
4.0
Scandal Man
1972
as Milord
4.0
4.0
Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
1965
as Self
3.0
3.0
Venetian Honeymoon
1959
as Alfredo
1.0
1.0
The Secrets of the Bed
1954
as Roberto (segment "Divorce, Le")
Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
1966
as Self - Interviewee
Questi ragazzi
1937
as Vincenzo
Cesare Zavattini
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Il mondo dei miracoli
1959
as Director Pietro Giordani
Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
1973
Cinéma et Réalité
1967
as Self
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
as Self
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960
as Colonel Belalcazar
The Man Who Smiles
1937
as Pio Fardella
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
1971
as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
Manon Lescaut
1940
as Renato Des Grieux
La canzone del sole
1934
as Paladino, l'avvocato
Le due madri
1938
as Salvatore
Napoli che non muore
1939
Il mondo vuole così
1946
as Paolo Morelli
Lohengrin
1936
as Alfredo
Cannon Serenade
1958
as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
Napoli d'altri tempi
1938
as Mario Esposito
The Small Miracle
1973
as Father Damico
It Always Ends That Way
1939
as Alberto Milnar
Working with De Sica
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Sophia Loren in Rome
1964
La guardia del corpo
1942
Writer
Un cattivo soggetto
1933
as Willy
Ai vostri ordini, signora...
1939
as Pietro Haguet
La bellezza del mondo
1927
The Secretary for Everyone
1932
The Old Lady
1932
as Fine dicitore
Noi siamo le colonne
1956
as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945
as Adriano Lari
La mazurka di papà
1938
as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
Lisetta
1933
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
1966
as Retired
Lost in the Dark
1947
Screenplay
Le pillole di Ercole
1960
as Colonel Piero Cuocolo
Two Happy Hearts
1932
as Mr. Brown
A Young World
1966
Director
Io e Dio
1970
Producer
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