Totò
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
122
Gender
Male
Birthday
1898-02-14
Day of death
1967-04-15 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Naples, Campania, Italy
Totò
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
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
The Law Is the Law
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Funniest Show on Earth
Cinépanorama
Totò e il Principe De Curtis - L'uomo oltre la maschera
Totò vs the Four
The Anatomy of Love
Rita the American Girl
Man, Beast and Virtue
Totòtruffa '62
Seven Hours of Troubles
Totò diabolicus
Side Street Story
The Thieves
Le motorizzate
Naples '44
The Witches
Totò Sexy
Gli onorevoli
Noi duri
The Commandant
Toto in Madrid
You're on Your Own
Big Deal on Madonna Street
SuperTotò
47 Talking Corpses
Tototarzan
Destinazione Piovarolo
The Overtaxed
The Mandrake
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
Toto the Sheik
Il medico dei pazzi
Toto at Night
The Band of Honest Men
Una di quelle
Where Is Freedom?
Il latitante
Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
The Shortest Day
Hands Off Me!
The Gold of Naples
The Hawks and the Sparrows
Neapolitan Turk
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
What Are the Clouds?
Cops and Robbers
Caprice Italian Style
Toto in Paris
Toto and Cleopatra
Are We Men or Corporals?
Totó in color
The Emperor of Capri
Poverty and Nobility
Fifa e arena
Letto a tre piazze
San Giovanni decollato
Toto and Carolina
The Two Marshals
The Monk of Monza
Of Life and Love
The Treasure of San Gennaro
Totò Double or Nothing?
Two Little Orphans
Lo smemorato di Collegno
The Three Thieves
Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
Signori si nasce
Toto and Marcellino
Roman Tales
Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
Beautiful Families
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
Il coraggio
He Who Hesitates Is Lost
Totò Looking for a House
Totò le Mokò
Totò d'Arabia
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
Slave Girl
Toto and the Kings of Rome
La cambiale
The Passionate Thief
Legs of Gold
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
Totò versus Maciste
Totò Story
Totò nella fossa dei leoni
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
We Are Cinema
Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel
Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli
Latin Lovers
Toto Tours Italy
Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak
Laughs Italian Style
Figaro qua... Figaro là
The Firemen of Viggiù
L'allegro fantasma
Totò versus the Black Pirate
Toto and the Women
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
Yvonne of the Night
Totò all'inferno
Totò in the Moon
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Toto the Third Man
Tutto Totò - La scommessa
Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye
Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino
Two Colonels
Totò Seeks Peace
The Rape of the Sabine
Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
Totò Looking for Wife
Animal Crackers
Variety carousel
Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare
Antologia di Totò
