Vittorio De Sica
Born July 07, 1901 (Age: 124)
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Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
Biography
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.
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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Filmography
We Are Cinema
2021
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 120
Working with De Sica
2007
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 106
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
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as Self
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Age: 83
My Name Is Anna Magnani
1980
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 79
We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
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as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Age: 73
Blood for Dracula
1974
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as Marquis Di Fiore
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Age: 73
Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
1973
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as
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Age: 72
The Assassination of Matteotti
1973
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as Mauro Del Giudice
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Age: 72
Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
1973
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as Maresciallo Cenciarelli
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Age: 71
The Small Miracle
1973
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as Father Damico
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Age: 71
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1972
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as giudice
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Age: 71
Scandal Man
1972
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as Milord
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Age: 70
Snow Job
1972
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as Enrico Dolphi
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Age: 70
Hector the Mighty
1972
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as Giove
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Age: 70
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
1971
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as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
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Age: 70
Twelve Plus One
1969
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as Di Seta
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Age: 68
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1969
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as Shoemaker
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Age: 67
Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
1965
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as Self
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Age: 64
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
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as der Graf
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Age: 63
Sophia Loren in Rome
1964
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as Self
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Age: 63
Eva
1962
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as (uncredited)
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Age: 61
Lykke og krone
1962
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as
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Age: 60
Lafayette
1962
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as Bancroft
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Age: 60
The Two Marshals
1961
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as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
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Age: 60
The Orderly
1961
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as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
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Age: 60
The Wonders of Aladdin
1961
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as Genie
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Age: 60
The Last Judgment
1961
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as Defense lawyer
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Age: 60
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
1961
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as Ambassador of Spain
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Age: 59
The Honored Society
1961
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as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
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Age: 59
Love in Rome
1960
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as le réalisateur
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Age: 59
The Traffic Policeman
1960
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as Il sindaco
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Age: 59
The Millionairess
1960
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as Joe
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Age: 59
Le pillole di Ercole
1960
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as Colonel Piero Cuocolo
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Age: 59
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960
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as Colonel Belalcazar
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Age: 59
It Started in Naples
1960
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as Mario Vitale
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Age: 59
The Battle of Austerlitz
1960
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as le pape Pie VII
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Age: 58
The Angel Wore Red
1960
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as General Clave
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Age: 58
Gastone
1960
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as The Prince
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Age: 58
Ferdinand I King of Naples
1959
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as Seccano
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Age: 58
General Della Rovere
1959
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as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
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Age: 58
The Moralist
1959
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as O.I.M.P. President
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Age: 57
Il mondo dei miracoli
1959
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as Director Pietro Giordani
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Age: 57
Winter Holidays
1959
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as Maurizio
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Age: 57
Men and Noblemen
1959
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as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
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Age: 57
My Wife's Enemy
1959
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as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
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Age: 57
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
1959
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as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
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Age: 57
Nel blu dipinto di blu
1959
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as Spartaco
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Age: 57
Venetian Honeymoon
1959
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as Alfredo
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Age: 57
Bread, Love and Andalucia
1958
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as Tonino
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Age: 57
The Girl of San Pietro Square
1958
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as Armando Conforti
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Age: 57
The Inveterate Bachelor
1958
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as Il professore
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Age: 57
Angel in a Taxi
1958
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as
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Age: 57
Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
1958
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as Self
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Age: 57
Cannon Serenade
1958
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as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
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Age: 57
Fast and Sexy
1958
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as Don Luigi
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Age: 56
Domenica è sempre domenica
1958
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as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
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Age: 56
Love and Chatter
1958
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as Avvocato Bonelli
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Age: 56
Noi siamo le colonne
1956
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as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
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Age: 55
The Monte Carlo Story
1956
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as Count Dino della Fiaba
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Age: 55
Time of Vacation
1956
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as Aristide Rossi
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Age: 55
Nero's Mistress
1956
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as Seneca
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Age: 55
I giorni più belli
1956
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as
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Age: 55
The Bigamist
1956
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as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
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Age: 54
Scandal in Sorrento
1955
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as Maresciallo Carotenuto
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Age: 54
Roman Tales
1955
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as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
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Age: 54
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
1955
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as Don Teofilo - governatore
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Age: 54
It Happens in Roma
1955
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as Carlo Reani
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Age: 53
The Sign of Venus
1955
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as Alessio Spano
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Age: 53
Too Bad She's Bad
1954
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as Vittorio Stroppiani
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Age: 53
Frisky
1954
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as Maresciallo Carotenuto
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Age: 53
The Cheerful Squadron
1954
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as General
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Age: 53
The Gold of Naples
1954
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as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
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Age: 53
Modern Virgin
1954
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as Antonio Valli
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Age: 53
The Secrets of the Bed
1954
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as Roberto Bernardini (segment "Divorce, Le")
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Age: 52
The Anatomy of Love
1954
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as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
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Age: 52
Gran varietà
1954
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as Veneziani
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Age: 52
100 Years of Love
1954
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as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
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Age: 52
Il matrimonio
1954
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as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
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Age: 52
Bread, Love and Dreams
1953
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as Maresciallo Carotenuto
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Age: 52
It Happened in the Park
1953
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as Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
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Age: 52
The Earrings of Madame de...
1953
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as Baron Fabrizio Donati
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Age: 51
Tomorrow Is Too Late
1950
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as Professor Landi
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Age: 49
Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
1945
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as Adriano Lari
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Age: 44
No One Comes Back
1945
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as Maurizio
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Age: 43
La guardia del corpo
1942
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as Riccardo, investigatore privato
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Age: 41
A Garibaldian in the Convent
1942
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as Nino Bixio
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Age: 40
If I Was Honest
1942
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as Pietro Kovach
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Age: 40
Teresa Venerdì
1941
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as Dott. Pietro Vignali
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Age: 40
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
1941
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as Fabrizio Marchini
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Age: 40
The Secretary for Everyone
1932
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as
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Age: 31
What Scoundrels Men Are!
1932
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as Bruno
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Age: 31
Two Happy Hearts
1932
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as Mr. Brown
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Age: 31
The Old Lady
1932
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as Fine dicitore
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Age: 30