Totò
Acting
Born: February 14, 1898 · Naples, Campania, Italy
Died: April 15, 1967 (aged 69)
Highest Rated
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
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
1956
The Hawks and the Sparrows
1966
Poverty and Nobility
1954
The Band of Honest Men
1956
The Treasure of San Gennaro
1966
Cops and Robbers
1951
The Gold of Naples
1954
Totòtruffa '62
1961
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
1956
The Overtaxed
1959
Neapolitan Turk
1953
Photos (6)
Movies (118)
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Dante Cruciani
Totòtruffa '62
Antonio LoRuffo
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
Cavalier Antonio Cocozza
The Witches
Ciancicato Miao (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
Dott. Biagio Tanzarella
The Gold of Naples
Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")
Roman Tales
Professor Semprini
Toto and Marcellino
Il Professore
Tutto Totò - La scommessa
Oberdan Lo Cascio
Il coraggio
Gennaro Vaccariello
The Treasure of San Gennaro
Don Vincenzo
The Passionate Thief
Umberto 'Infortunio' Pennazzuto
Toto the Sheik
Antonio Sapone
Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak
Totò l'agente segreto
Caprice Italian Style
Anziano Signore / Iago
The Shortest Day
frate bersagliere
The Law Is the Law
Giuseppe La Paglia
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
Antonio Vignarello
The Hawks and the Sparrows
Totò Innocenti / Frate Cicillo
Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli
Totò, la guida non autorizzata
Toto the Third Man
Piero / Paolo / Totò
Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye
musicista capellone
Slave Girl
Gobbone il cammello (narratore)
Cops and Robbers
Ferdinando Esposito
Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare
1967
Totò sexy
Nini Cantachiaro
The Overtaxed
Torquato Pezzella
Totò Looking for Wife
Totò
The Anatomy of Love
Dionillo
Noi duri
L'Algerino
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
The Mandrake
il frate
Latin Lovers
Rag. Antonio Gargiulo (ep. Amore e morte)
Poverty and Nobility
Don Felice Sciosciammocca
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977
Yvonne of the Night
Nino
Where Is Freedom?
Salvatore Lojacono
Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
Antonio Barbacane
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
Antonio Caponi
Toto in Paris
Marchese Gastone de Chemantel / Chateau-Boiron / il vagabondo Totò
Animal Crackers
Barone Tolomeo dei Tolomei
Totò diabolicus
Galeazzo / Carlo / Scipione / Antonio / Laudomia / Pasquale
The Two Marshals
Antonio Capurro
Lo smemorato di Collegno
lo smemorato
Toto and the Kings of Rome
Ercole Pappalardo
Toto and the Women
Antonio Scaparro
Totò le Mokò
Antonio Lumaconi / Totò le Moko
Figaro qua... Figaro là
Figaro
Man, Beast and Virtue
Prof. Paolino
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
Ciancicato Miao
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Michele Spillone detto Mike
The Thieves
Commissario Di Savio
Tototarzan
Antonio Della Buffas
The Three Thieves
Tapioca
Totò in the Moon
Pasquale Belafronte
Toto and Carolina
Antonio Caccavallo
Two Colonels
Colonnello Di Maggio
Legs of Gold
Barone Luigi Fontana
Beautiful Families
Filiberto Comanducci
Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino
Barnaba Parmiggiani aka 'Babà'
Totò all'inferno
Antonio Marchi
Letto a tre piazze
Antonio Di Cosimo
Toto Tours Italy
Prof. Totò Casamandrei
Toto and Cleopatra
Marc'Antonio / Totonno
La cambiale
Cesare Posalaquaglia
Gli onorevoli
Antonio La Trippa
Neapolitan Turk
Felice Sciosciammocca
Totò Looking for a House
Beniamino Lomacchio
Toto in Madrid
Totò Scorceletti
What Are the Clouds?
Iago
Totò vs the Four
commissario Antonio Saracino
The Emperor of Capri
Antonio De Fazio
Totò d'Arabia
Totò
Laughs Italian Style
1964
Totò Double or Nothing?
Duca Gagliardo della Forcoletta
Il medico dei pazzi
Felice Sciosciammocca
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
Antonio
Totò Seeks Peace
Gennaro Piselli
You're on Your Own
Il nonno illuminato
Seven Hours of Troubles
Totò De Pasquale
The Monk of Monza
Pasquale Cicciacalda / Don Manuel
The Firemen of Viggiù
Totò
SuperTotò
1980
Of Life and Love
Rosario Chiarchiaro
Variety carousel
1955
The Band of Honest Men
Antonio Buonocore
Side Street Story
Pasquale Miele
Totò versus Maciste
Totokamen
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
Totò Baby / il Padre
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
(archive footage)
47 Talking Corpses
Il barone Antonio Peletti
Two Hearts Against the Beast
Totò
Rita the American Girl
Serafino Benvenuti
Funniest Show on Earth
Tottons
Le motorizzate
Urbano Cacace (segment "Il Vigile Ignoto")
Two Little Orphans
Gasparre
Totò Story
1968
Totó in color
Antonio Scannagatti
He Who Hesitates Is Lost
Antonio Guardalavecchia
The Commandant
Col. Antonio Cavalli
Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Totò Esposito
Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
Antonio La Puzza / Amministratore di Canarinis
Una di quelle
Rocco Bardelli
San Giovanni decollato
Mastro Agostino Miciacio
Gentlemen Are Born
Ottone Degli Ulivi, detto Zazà
Totò e il Principe De Curtis - L'uomo oltre la maschera
Se stesso
Are We Men or Corporals?
Totò Esposito
Destinazione Piovarolo
Antonio La Quaglia
Toto at Night
Nini
Fifa e arena
Nicolino Capece
Il latitante
Gennaro La Pezza
L'allegro fantasma
Nicolino & Gelsomino & Antonino
The Rape of the Sabine
Aristide Tromboni
Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel
il professor Serafino Bolletta
Totò versus the Black Pirate
Josè
Hands Off Me!
Conte Toto di Torretota
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
Mardoccheo Stonatelli
Antologia di Totò
Totò (se stesso)
Self / Appearances (7)
Cinépanorama
Self · 1 eps
Forza Italia!
Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Naples '44
Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Self (archive footage)
Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Self (archive footage)
Writing (9)
Il coraggio
Screenplay
The Two Marshals
Idea
Totò all'inferno
Screenplay
Totò all'inferno
Story
Il medico dei pazzi
Screenplay
Totó in color
Story
Are We Men or Corporals?
Story
Are We Men or Corporals?
Screenplay
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
Writer