Totò

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1898-02-14

Deathday 1967-04-15 (69 years old)

Place of Birth Naples, Campania, Italy

Also Known As Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi De Curtis di Bisanzio, Antonio De Curtis, Antonio Vincenzo Stefano Clemente, Тото, Антоніо Де Куртіс

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

Actor

2021
We Are Cinema

as Self (archive footage)

2021
2020
Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2016
Naples '44

as Self (archive footage)

1978
Antologia di Totò

as Totò (se stesso)

1968
Caprice Italian Style

as Anziano Signore / Iago

1967
Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli

as Totò, la guida non autorizzata

1967
Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak

as Totò l'agente segreto

1967
Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye

as musicista capellone

1967
Il latitante

as Gennaro La Pezza

1967
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro

as Mardoccheo Stonatelli

1967
The Witches

as Ciancicato Miao (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")

1967
1967
Tutto Totò - La scommessa

as Oberdan Lo Cascio

1967
Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino

as Barnaba Parmiggiani aka 'Babà'

1967
Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel

as il professor Serafino Bolletta

1966
1966
The Hawks and the Sparrows

as Totò Innocenti / Frate Cicillo

1965
Rita the American Girl

as Serafino Benvenuti

1965
The Mandrake

as il frate

1965
Latin Lovers

as Rag. Antonio Gargiulo (ep. Amore e morte)

1965
1964
Beautiful Families

as Filiberto Comanducci

1964
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?

as Totò Baby / il Padre

1963
The Commandant

as Col. Antonio Cavalli

1963
Gli onorevoli

as Antonio La Trippa

1963
Toto and Cleopatra

as Marc'Antonio / Totonno

1963
Totò Sexy

as Nini Cantachiaro

1963
Le motorizzate

as Urbano Cacace (segment "Il Vigile Ignoto")

1963
The Monk of Monza

as Pasquale Cicciacalda / Don Manuel

1963
Totò vs the Four

as commissario Antonio Saracino

1963
The Shortest Day

as frate bersagliere

1963
Two Colonels

as Colonnello Di Maggio

1962
1962
Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino

as Antonio La Puzza / Amministratore di Canarinis

1962
Lo smemorato di Collegno

as lo smemorato

1962
Totò diabolicus

as Galeazzo / Carlo / Scipione / Antonio / Laudomia / Pasquale

1962
1961
The Two Marshals

as Antonio Capurro

1961
Totòtruffa '62

as Antonio LoRuffo

1961
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare

as Dott. Biagio Tanzarella

1961
1960
He Who Hesitates Is Lost

as Antonio Guardalavecchia

1960
The Passionate Thief

as Umberto 'Infortunio' Pennazzuto

1960
Letto a tre piazze

as Antonio Di Cosimo

1960
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today

as Cavalier Antonio Cocozza

1960
Signori si nasce

as Ottone Degli Ulivi, detto Zazà

1960
Noi duri

as L'Algerino

1959
La cambiale

as Cesare Posalaquaglia

1959
You're on Your Own

as Il nonno illuminato

1959
The Thieves

as Commissario Di Savio

1959
The Overtaxed

as Torquato Pezzella

1959
Toto in Madrid

as Totò Scorceletti

1958
Totò nella Luna

as Pasquale Belafronte

1958
Toto in Paris

as Marchese Gastone de Chemantel / Chateau-Boiron / il vagabondo Totò

1958
The Law Is the Law

as Giuseppe La Paglia

1958
Legs of Gold

as Barone Luigi Fontana

1958
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche

as Antonio Vignarello

1958
Big Deal on Madonna Street

as Dante Cruciani

1958
Toto and Marcellino

as Il Professore

1957
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

as Michele Spillone detto Mike

1956
1956
Totò Double or Nothing?

as Duca Gagliardo della Forcoletta

1956
The Band of Honest Men

as Antonio Buonocore

1956
1955
Il coraggio

as Gennaro Vaccariello

1955
Roman Tales

as Professor Semprini

1955
Destinazione Piovarolo

as Antonio La Quaglia

1955
Are We Men or Corporals?

as Totò Esposito

1955
Totò all'inferno

as Antonio Marchi

1955
Toto and Carolina

as Antonio Caccavallo

1954
Totò cerca pace

as Gennaro Piselli

1954
The Gold of Naples

as Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")

1954
Il medico dei pazzi

as Felice Sciosciammocca

1954
I tre ladri

as Tapioca

1954
Poverty and Nobility

as Don Felice Sciosciammocca

1954
1954
Where Is Freedom?

as Salvatore Lojacono

1954
Of Life and Love

as Rosario Chiarchiaro

1953
1953
Una di quelle

as Rocco Bardelli

1953
Neapolitan Turk

as Felice Sciosciammocca

1953
Man, Beast and Virtue

as Prof. Paolino

1952
Toto and the Women

as Antonio Scaparro

1952
Toto and the Kings of Rome

as Ercole Pappalardo

1952
Totó in color

as Antonio Scannagatti

1951
Cops and Robbers

as Ferdinando Esposito

1951
Sette ore di guai

as Totò De Pasquale

1951
Toto the Third Man

as Piero / Paolo / Totò

1950
47 Talking Corpses

as Il barone Antonio Peletti

1950
Toto the Sheik

as Antonio Sapone

1950
Le sei mogli di Barbablù

as Totò Esposito

1950
Tototarzan

as Antonio Della Buffas

1950
Side Street Story

as Pasquale Miele

1950
1949
Totò le Mokò

as Antonio Lumaconi / Totò le Moko

1949
The Emperor of Capri

as Antonio De Fazio

1949
Totò cerca casa

as Beniamino Lomacchio

1949
Yvonne of the Night

as Nino, il fantasista

1948
Toto Tours Italy

as Prof. Totò Casamandrei

1948
Fifa e arena

as Nicolino Capece

1947
I due orfanelli

as Gasparre

1947
Slave Girl

as Gobbone il cammello (narratore)

1945
The Rape of the Sabine

as Aristide Tromboni

1941
L'allegro fantasma

as Nicolino & Gelsomino & Antonino

1940
San Giovanni decollato

as Mastro Agostino Miciacio

1939
Animal Crackers

as Barone Tolomeo dei Tolomei

1937
Hands Off Me!

as Conte Toto di Torretota

Writer

1961
1955
1955
Totò all'inferno

as Screenplay

1955
Il coraggio

as Screenplay

1955
1954
Il medico dei pazzi

as Screenplay

1952