Birth Day: 1901-07-07
Place of birth: Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
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.
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As Marquis Di Fiore
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As Maresciallo Cenciarelli
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As Mauro Del Giudice
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As Giove
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As Enrico Dolphi
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As Enrico Formichi
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As Player in Venice casino
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As Don Michele
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As Di Seta
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As Shoemaker
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As Cardinal Rinaldi
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As Le comte de Bièvre
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As Cesare Celli
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As der Graf
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As Bancroft
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As Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
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As Defense lawyer
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As Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
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As Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
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As L'ambassadeur d'Espagne
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As Mario Vitale
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As General Clave
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As Colonel Belalcazar
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As le pape Pie VII
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As Colonel Piero Cuocolo
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As le réalisateur
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As Joe
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As Il sindaco
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As The Prince
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As Alfredo
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As Spartaco
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As Maurizio
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As Director Pietro Giordani
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As professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
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As O.I.M.P. President
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As Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
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As marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
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As Avvocato Bonelli
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As Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
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As Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
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As Il professore
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As Armando Conforti
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As Don Luigi
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As Vincenzo Corallo
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As Major Rinaldi
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As Giorgio
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As Engineer Occhipinti
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As Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
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As Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
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As Alexander Gordy
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As Antonio Locoratolo
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As Console Bordogin
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As The Count
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As Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
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As Aristide Rossi
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As Count Dino della Fiaba
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As Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
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As Seneca
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As Carlo Reani
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As Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
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As Alessio Spano
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As Maresciallo Carotenuto
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As Don Teofilo - governatore
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As Roberto
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As Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
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As Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
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As Antonio Valli
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As Vittorio Stroppiani
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As Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
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As Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
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As Il generale
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As Veneziani
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As Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
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As Baron Fabrizio Donati
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As Maresciallo Carotenuto
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As Carlo Caretti
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As Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
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As Leonardo Leonardi
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As Professor Landi
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As Master Perboni
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As Leo, l'ateo
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As Don Vicenzino
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As Il conte Ghirani
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As Paolo Morelli
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As Il signore distinto
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As Adriano Lari
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As Leo
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As Pietro Kovach
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As Nino Bixio
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As Dott. Pietro Vignali
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As Fabrizio Marchini
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As Alfredo Hartman
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As Conte Corrado Valli
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As Pietro Bandelli
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As Alberto Verani
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As Renato Des Grieux
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As Pietro Haguet
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As Bruno Zacchi
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As Riccardo Pietramola
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As Alberto Milnar
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As Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
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As L'attore cinematografico
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As Mario Esposito
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As Salvatore
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As Pio Fardella
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As Gianni / Max Varaldo
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As Vincenzo
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As Alfredo
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As Memmo Speranza
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As Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
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As Gold
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As Giovanni
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As Paladino, l'avvocato
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As Il professore Giacomo Banti
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As Willy
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As Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
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As Fine dicitore
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As Mr. Brown
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As Bruno
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As Prof. Rosolillo
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As Pierre Clémenceau bambino