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