Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio De Sica was born in Sora, in Lazio, in 1901. A stage actor from the early 1920s, he became a popular leading man, on stage and then on screen, before moving into directing in 1940. His collaboration with the screenwriter Cesare Zavattini was central to his work as a filmmaker. A compulsive gambler all his life, he continued to act in films, notably for Roberto Rossellini. He became a French citizen in the late 1960s and died in France in 1974.

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• CinemaBicycle ThievesLadri di bicicletteVittorio De Sica · 1948Cinema