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  1. Vittorio De Sica
    Vittorio De SicaItalian film director
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  2. Born7 July 1901 · Sora, Lazio, Kingdom of Italy
    Died13 November 1974 (aged 73) · Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
    SpousesGiuditta Rissone · (m. 1937; div. 1954) · María Mercader (m. 1968)
    ChildrenEmilia De Sica · Manuel De Sica · Christian De Sica
    De Sica's Child Stars
    De Sica's Child Stars
    Vittorio De Sica was an Italian film director and actor, a pioneer of neorealism. He won four Oscars for his films, which often featured children as protagonists.
    Early life

    De Sica was born on 7 July 1901 in Sora, Lazio. His father Umberto De Sica was from Giffoni Valle Piana, Campania; he was a journalist, and in the later years worked for the Bank of Italy. Teresa Manfredi, his mother, had … See more

    Career

    De Sica was laureated in 1923. Described as strikingly handsome, already in the early 1920s he began his career as a theatre actor and joined Tatiana Pavlova's theatre company in 1923. With Pavlova he worked for two year… See more

    Personal life

    His passion for gambling was well known and because of it, he often lost large sums of money and accepted work that might not otherwise have interested him. He never kept his gambling a secret from anyone; in fact, he proj… See more

    Death

    De Sica died on 13 November 1974 after surgery due to lung cancer at the Neuilly-sur-Seine hospital in Paris. See more

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