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
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Totò (se stesso)
as (archive footage)
as Anziano Signore / Iago
as Iago
as Totò, la guida non autorizzata
as Totò l'agente segreto
as musicista capellone
as Gennaro La Pezza
as Mardoccheo Stonatelli
as Ciancicato Miao (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
as Ciancicato Miao
as Oberdan Lo Cascio
as Barnaba Parmiggiani aka 'Babà'
as il professor Serafino Bolletta
as Don Vincenzo
as Totò Innocenti / Frate Cicillo
as Serafino Benvenuti
as il frate
as Rag. Antonio Gargiulo (ep. Amore e morte)
as Totò
as Filiberto Comanducci
as Totò Baby / il Padre
as Josè
as Col. Antonio Cavalli
as Antonio La Trippa
as Marc'Antonio / Totonno
as Nini Cantachiaro
as Urbano Cacace (segment "Il Vigile Ignoto")
as Pasquale Cicciacalda / Don Manuel
as commissario Antonio Saracino
as frate bersagliere
as Colonnello Di Maggio
as Nini
as Antonio La Puzza / Amministratore di Canarinis
as lo smemorato
as Galeazzo / Carlo / Scipione / Antonio / Laudomia / Pasquale
as Totokamen
as Antonio Capurro
as Antonio LoRuffo
as Dott. Biagio Tanzarella
as Antonio Barbacane
as Antonio Guardalavecchia
as Umberto 'Infortunio' Pennazzuto
as Antonio Di Cosimo
as Cavalier Antonio Cocozza
as Ottone Degli Ulivi, detto Zazà
as L'Algerino
as Cesare Posalaquaglia
as Il nonno illuminato
as Commissario Di Savio
as Torquato Pezzella
as Totò Scorceletti
as Pasquale Belafronte
as Marchese Gastone de Chemantel / Chateau-Boiron / il vagabondo Totò
as Giuseppe La Paglia
as Barone Luigi Fontana
as Antonio Vignarello
as Dante Cruciani
as Il Professore
as Michele Spillone detto Mike
as Antonio
as Antonio Caponi
as Duca Gagliardo della Forcoletta
as Antonio Buonocore
as Self
as Gennaro Vaccariello
as Professor Semprini
as Antonio La Quaglia
as Totò Esposito
as Antonio Marchi
as Antonio Caccavallo
as Gennaro Piselli
as Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")
as Felice Sciosciammocca
as Tapioca
as Don Felice Sciosciammocca
as Dionillo
as Salvatore Lojacono
as Rosario Chiarchiaro
as Tottons
as Rocco Bardelli
as Felice Sciosciammocca
as Prof. Paolino
as Antonio Scaparro
as Ercole Pappalardo
as Antonio Scannagatti
as Ferdinando Esposito
as Totò De Pasquale
as Piero / Paolo / Totò
as Il barone Antonio Peletti
as Antonio Sapone
as Totò Esposito
as Antonio Della Buffas
as Figaro
as Pasquale Miele
as Totò
as Antonio Lumaconi / Totò le Moko
as Antonio De Fazio
as Beniamino Lomacchio
as Nino, il fantasista
as Totò
as Prof. Totò Casamandrei
as Nicolino Capece
as Gasparre
as Gobbone il cammello (narratore)
as Aristide Tromboni
as Totò
as Nicolino & Gelsomino & Antonino
as Mastro Agostino Miciacio
as Barone Tolomeo dei Tolomei
as Conte Toto di Torretota
Writer
as Writer
as Idea
as Story
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Story
as Screenplay
as Story