Vittorio De Sica

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Nationality: Italian
Birthdate: 07/07/1902
Birthplace: Sora, Italy
Death Date: 11/13/1974

biography

Italian director Vittorio De Sica was also a notable actor who appeared in over 100 films, to which he brought the same charm and brightness which infused his work behind the camera.

By 1918, at the age of 16, De Sica had already begun to dabble in stage work and in 1923 he joined Tatiana Pavlova's theater company. His good looks and breezy manner made him an overnight matinee idol in Italy with the release of his first sound picture, "La Vecchia Signora" (1931). De Sica turned to directing during WWII, with his first efforts typical of the light entertainments of the time. It was with "The Continued

Credits

Director
1970
Director
1966
Producer
1957
Director
1957
screenplay
1952
Director
1952
Producer
1952
Actor
Cardinal Rinaldi
Judge Mauro del Giudice
Secret Agent Edward Bancroft
Dolphi
Pope Pius XII
General Clave
Baron Fabrizio Donati
Mario Vitale
Major Alessandro Rinaldi
Priest
Director
Count Dino Della Fiaba
Stroppiani
Marshall Antonio Carotenuto
screenplay
Executive Producer
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Maresciallo Carotenuto
Vincenzo Corallo
Lawyer Principe
Occhipinti
The Governor
Bardone--Grimaldi
Marshal Antonio Carotenuto
screenplay
screenplay
screenplay

milestones

Year
Milestone
1918 
Screen acting debut in "The Clemenceau Affair"
1919 
Acted exclusively on the stage
1940 
First film as co-director (with Giuseppe Amato), "Rose Scarlatte"
1941 
Solo directing debut, "Maddalena zero in condotta"
1942 
First collaboration with scenarist Cesare Zavattini, "I bambini ci guardano/The Children Are Watching Us"
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