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