Totò
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 14, 1898
- Died
- April 15, 1967 (aged 69)
- Birthplace
- Naples, Campania, Italy
Biography
Totò was born Antonio Clemente in a poor district of Naples, the illegitimate son of Anna Clemente from Sicily and Marquis Giuseppe De Curtis from Naples. Nicknamed “il principe della risata’ (the prince of laughter), he was an Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter, and widely considered one of the greatest Italian artists of the 20th century. While he first gained his popularity as a comic actor, his dramatic roles, poetry, and songs are all of cultural import; his style and a number of his recurring jokes and gestures have become universally known memes in Italy. As a comic actor, Totò is classified as an heir of the Commedia dell'Arte tradition, and has been compared to such figures as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. At the age of 15, he was already acting as a comedian in small theatres, under the pseudonym "Clerment". His early repertoire mostly consisted in imitations of Gustavo De Marco's characters. He served in the army during World War I and then went back to acting to develop the trademarks of his style. In 1937, he appeared in his first movie "Fermo con le mani", and later starred in 96 more films, many of which are still frequently broadcast on Italian television. In his vast cinematographic career, Totò had the opportunity to act side by side with virtually all major Italian actors of the time. Totò's unmistakable figure, with his peculiarly irregular face (due to an accident in his teen years), and his unique trademark ability to disarticulate his body like a marionette, soon became very popular and his comic gags became part of the Italian culture. Totò died at the age of 69 in Rome after a series of heart attacks. Due to overwhelming popularity there were three funeral services: the first in Rome, and the second and third in Naples. Totò's birth home has been recently opened to the public as a museum.
Known For
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Filmography
Totò e il Principe De Curtis - L'uomo oltre la maschera
Movie · as Se stesso
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Naples '44
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
Movie
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Forbidden Grass
Movie · as (archive footage)
SuperTotò
Movie
Antologia di Totò
Movie · as Totò (se stesso)
Forza Italia!
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
Movie
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
Movie · as (archive footage)
Caprice Italian Style
Movie · as Anziano Signore / Iago
Totò Story
Movie
What Are the Clouds?
Movie · as Iago
The Witches
Movie · as Ciancicato Miao (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
Il latitante
Movie · as Gennaro La Pezza
Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare
Movie
Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino
Movie · as Barnaba Parmiggiani aka 'Babà'
Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak
Movie · as Totò l'agente segreto
Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli
Movie · as Totò, la guida non autorizzata
Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye
Movie · as musicista capellone
Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel
Movie · as il professor Serafino Bolletta
Tutto Totò - La scommessa
Movie · as Oberdan Lo Cascio
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
Movie · as Mardoccheo Stonatelli
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
Movie · as Ciancicato Miao
The Hawks and the Sparrows
Movie · as Totò Innocenti / Frate Cicillo
The Treasure of San Gennaro
Movie · as Don Vincenzo
Totò d'Arabia
Movie · as Totò
The Mandrake
Movie · as il frate
Rita the American Girl
Movie · as Serafino Benvenuti
Latin Lovers
Movie · as Rag. Antonio Gargiulo (ep. Amore e morte)
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
Movie · as Totò Baby / il Padre
Totò versus the Black Pirate
Movie · as Josè
Laughs Italian Style
Movie
Beautiful Families
Movie · as Filiberto Comanducci
Gli onorevoli
Movie · as Antonio La Trippa
Totò vs the Four
Movie · as commissario Antonio Saracino
The Monk of Monza
Movie · as Pasquale Cicciacalda / Don Manuel
Toto and Cleopatra
Movie · as Marc'Antonio / Totonno
The Commandant
Movie · as Col. Antonio Cavalli
Le motorizzate
Movie · as Urbano Cacace (segment "Il Vigile Ignoto")
Two Colonels
Movie · as Colonnello Di Maggio
The Shortest Day
Movie · as frate bersagliere
Totò sexy
Movie · as Nini Cantachiaro
Toto at Night
Movie · as Nini
Lo smemorato di Collegno
Movie · as lo smemorato
Totò diabolicus
Movie · as Galeazzo / Carlo / Scipione / Antonio / Laudomia / Pasquale
Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
Movie · as Antonio La Puzza / Amministratore di Canarinis
Totò versus Maciste
Movie · as Totokamen
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
Movie · as Dott. Biagio Tanzarella
Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
Movie · as Antonio Barbacane
The Two Marshals
Movie · as Antonio Capurro
Totòtruffa '62
Movie · as Antonio LoRuffo
He Who Hesitates Is Lost
Movie · as Antonio Guardalavecchia
Letto a tre piazze
Movie · as Antonio Di Cosimo
Gentlemen Are Born
Movie · as Ottone Degli Ulivi, detto Zazà
The Passionate Thief
Movie · as Umberto 'Infortunio' Pennazzuto
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
Movie · as Cavalier Antonio Cocozza
Noi duri
Movie · as L'Algerino
You're on Your Own
Movie · as Il nonno illuminato
Toto in Madrid
Movie · as Totò Scorceletti
The Overtaxed
Movie · as Torquato Pezzella
The Thieves
Movie · as Commissario Di Savio
La cambiale
Movie · as Cesare Posalaquaglia
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Movie · as Dante Cruciani
Toto in Paris
Movie · as Marchese Gastone de Chemantel / Chateau-Boiron / il vagabondo Totò
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
Movie · as Antonio Vignarello
Toto and Marcellino
Movie · as Il Professore
Totò in the Moon
Movie · as Pasquale Belafronte
The Law Is the Law
Movie · as Giuseppe La Paglia
Legs of Gold
Movie · as Barone Luigi Fontana
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Movie · as Michele Spillone detto Mike
Totò Double or Nothing?
Movie · as Duca Gagliardo della Forcoletta
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
Movie · as Antonio Caponi
The Band of Honest Men
Movie · as Antonio Buonocore
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
Movie · as Antonio
Cinépanorama
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Toto and Carolina
Movie · as Antonio Caccavallo
Il coraggio
Movie · as Gennaro Vaccariello
Totò all'inferno
Movie · as Antonio Marchi
Destinazione Piovarolo
Movie · as Antonio La Quaglia
Variety carousel
Movie
Are We Men or Corporals?
Movie · as Totò Esposito
Roman Tales
Movie · as Professor Semprini
Totò Seeks Peace
Movie · as Gennaro Piselli
Il medico dei pazzi
Movie · as Felice Sciosciammocca
The Three Thieves
Movie · as Tapioca
Of Life and Love
Movie · as Rosario Chiarchiaro
The Gold of Naples
Movie · as Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")
Where Is Freedom?
Movie · as Salvatore Lojacono
Poverty and Nobility
Movie · as Don Felice Sciosciammocca
The Anatomy of Love
Movie · as Dionillo
Funniest Show on Earth
Movie · as Tottons
Neapolitan Turk
Movie · as Felice Sciosciammocca
Man, Beast and Virtue
Movie · as Prof. Paolino
Una di quelle
Movie · as Rocco Bardelli
Totó in color
Movie · as Antonio Scannagatti
Toto and the Women
Movie · as Antonio Scaparro
Toto and the Kings of Rome
Movie · as Ercole Pappalardo
Cops and Robbers
Movie · as Ferdinando Esposito
Toto the Third Man
Movie · as Piero / Paolo / Totò
Seven Hours of Troubles
Movie · as Totò De Pasquale
Side Street Story
Movie · as Pasquale Miele
Toto the Sheik
Movie · as Antonio Sapone
Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Movie · as Totò Esposito
Tototarzan
Movie · as Antonio Della Buffas
47 Talking Corpses
Movie · as Il barone Antonio Peletti
Figaro qua... Figaro là
Movie · as Figaro
Totò Looking for Wife
Movie · as Totò
Yvonne of the Night
Movie · as Nino
Totò Looking for a House
Movie · as Beniamino Lomacchio
The Emperor of Capri
Movie · as Antonio De Fazio
Totò le Mokò
Movie · as Antonio Lumaconi / Totò le Moko
The Firemen of Viggiù
Movie · as Totò
Fifa e arena
Movie · as Nicolino Capece
Toto Tours Italy
Movie · as Prof. Totò Casamandrei
Two Little Orphans
Movie · as Gasparre
Slave Girl
Movie · as Gobbone il cammello (narratore)
The Rape of the Sabine
Movie · as Aristide Tromboni
Two Hearts Against the Beast
Movie · as Totò
L'allegro fantasma
Movie · as Nicolino & Gelsomino & Antonino
San Giovanni decollato
Movie · as Mastro Agostino Miciacio
Animal Crackers
Movie · as Barone Tolomeo dei Tolomei
Hands Off Me!
Movie · as Conte Toto di Torretota