
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.

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

The Battle of Austerlitz
1960 · as le pape Pie VII

Dear Caroline
1968 · as Le comte de Bièvre

A Farewell to Arms
1957 · as Major Rinaldi

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

Lafayette
1962 · as Bancroft

Blood for Dracula
1974 · as Marquis Di Fiore

General Della Rovere
1959 · as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'

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

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

The Monte Carlo Story
1956 · as Count Dino della Fiaba

Belmondo: The Incorrigible
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1969 · as Shoemaker

Roman Tales
1955 · as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer

After the Fox
1966 · as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)

The Adventures of Pinocchio
1972 · as giudice

The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968 · as Cardinal Rinaldi

It Happened in Rome
1957 · as The Count