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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 14, 1898
Died
April 15, 1967
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
1.2 Popularity
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
0.0
Se stesso
Totò e il Principe De Curtis - L'uomo oltre la maschera
2023
9.5
Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
2021
7.3
Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
6.8
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
2020
5.7
Self (archive footage)
Naples '44
2016
6.7
Self (archive footage)
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
8.0
SuperTotò
1980
0.0
Totò (se stesso)
Antologia di Totò
1978
4.8
(archive footage)
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
1975
6.1
Anziano Signore / Iago
Caprice Italian Style
1968
Credits
Totò e il Principe De Curtis - L'uomo oltre la maschera
as Se stesso
2023
0.0
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2021
9.5
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)
2021
7.3
Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020
6.8
Naples '44
as Self (archive footage)
2016
5.7
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
as Self (archive footage)
2004
6.7
SuperTotò
1980
8.0
Antologia di Totò
as Totò (se stesso)
1978
0.0
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
as (archive footage)
1975
4.8
Caprice Italian Style
as Anziano Signore / Iago
1968
6.1
What Are the Clouds?
as Iago
1968
8.5
Totò Story
1968
6.4
Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare
1967
5.7
Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli
as Totò, la guida non autorizzata
1967
4.9
Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak
as Totò l'agente segreto
1967
5.5
Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye
as musicista capellone
1967
4.0
Il latitante
as Gennaro La Pezza
1967
5.4
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
as Mardoccheo Stonatelli
1967
5.2
The Witches
as Ciancicato Miao (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
1967
6.0
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
as Ciancicato Miao
1967
8.2
Tutto Totò - La scommessa
as Oberdan Lo Cascio
1967
5.2
Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino
as Barnaba Parmiggiani aka 'Babà'
1967
5.3
Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel
as il professor Serafino Bolletta
1967
6.4
The Treasure of San Gennaro
as Don Vincenzo
1966
7.4
The Hawks and the Sparrows
as Totò Innocenti / Frate Cicillo
1966
7.2
Rita the American Girl
as Serafino Benvenuti
1965
4.8
The Mandrake
as il frate
1965
5.7
Latin Lovers
as Rag. Antonio Gargiulo (ep. Amore e morte)
1965
5.9
Totò d'Arabia
as Totò
1965
6.2
Beautiful Families
as Filiberto Comanducci
1964
6.7
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
as Totò Baby / il Padre
1964
6.6
Laughs Italian Style
1964
5.9
Totò versus the Black Pirate
as Josè
1964
6.3
The Commandant
as Col. Antonio Cavalli
1963
6.6
Gli onorevoli
as Antonio La Trippa
1963
6.8
Toto and Cleopatra
as Marc'Antonio / Totonno
1963
6.7
Totò Sexy
as Nini Cantachiaro
1963
4.9
Le motorizzate
as Urbano Cacace (segment "Il Vigile Ignoto")
1963
6.1
The Monk of Monza
as Pasquale Cicciacalda / Don Manuel
1963
7.0
Totò vs the Four
as commissario Antonio Saracino
1963
6.7
The Shortest Day
as frate bersagliere
1963
6.2
Two Colonels
as Colonnello Di Maggio
1963
7.5
Toto at Night
as Nini
1962
5.7
Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
as Antonio La Puzza / Amministratore di Canarinis
1962
6.5
Lo smemorato di Collegno
as lo smemorato
1962
6.7
Totò diabolicus
as Galeazzo / Carlo / Scipione / Antonio / Laudomia / Pasquale
1962
7.1
Totò versus Maciste
as Totokamen
1962
6.5
The Two Marshals
as Antonio Capurro
1961
7.2
Totòtruffa '62
as Antonio LoRuffo
1961
7.6
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
as Dott. Biagio Tanzarella
1961
6.7
Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
as Antonio Barbacane
1961
6.8
He Who Hesitates Is Lost
as Antonio Guardalavecchia
1960
6.9
The Passionate Thief
as Umberto 'Infortunio' Pennazzuto
1960
6.9
Letto a tre piazze
as Antonio Di Cosimo
1960
7.0
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
as Cavalier Antonio Cocozza
1960
7.2
Signori si nasce
as Ottone Degli Ulivi, detto Zazà
1960
7.0
Noi duri
as L'Algerino
1960
6.5
La cambiale
as Cesare Posalaquaglia
1959
6.6
You're on Your Own
as Il nonno illuminato
1959
7.1
The Thieves
as Commissario Di Savio
1959
5.5
The Overtaxed
as Torquato Pezzella
1959
7.1
Toto in Madrid
as Totò Scorceletti
1959
6.4
Totò in the Moon
as Pasquale Belafronte
1958
5.6
Toto in Paris
as Marchese Gastone de Chemantel / Chateau-Boiron / il vagabondo Totò
1958
6.2
The Law Is the Law
as Giuseppe La Paglia
1958
7.2
Legs of Gold
as Barone Luigi Fontana
1958
5.0
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
as Antonio Vignarello
1958
6.5
Big Deal on Madonna Street
as Dante Cruciani
1958
8.1
Toto and Marcellino
as Il Professore
1958
6.3
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
as Michele Spillone detto Mike
1957
5.3
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
as Antonio
1956
7.6
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
as Antonio Caponi
1956
8.0
Totò Double or Nothing?
as Duca Gagliardo della Forcoletta
1956
6.9
The Band of Honest Men
as Antonio Buonocore
1956
7.7
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
Il coraggio
as Gennaro Vaccariello
1955
6.4
Roman Tales
as Professor Semprini
1955
5.9
Destinazione Piovarolo
as Antonio La Quaglia
1955
6.8
Are We Men or Corporals?
as Totò Esposito
1955
6.7
Totò all'inferno
as Antonio Marchi
1955
6.2
Toto and Carolina
as Antonio Caccavallo
1955
6.5
Variety carousel
1955
6.0
Totò Seeks Peace
as Gennaro Piselli
1954
6.3
The Gold of Naples
as Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")
1954
7.3
Il medico dei pazzi
as Felice Sciosciammocca
1954
7.1
The Three Thieves
as Tapioca
1954
6.3
Poverty and Nobility
as Don Felice Sciosciammocca
1954
8.0
The Anatomy of Love
as Dionillo
1954
6.4
Where Is Freedom?
as Salvatore Lojacono
1954
6.4
Of Life and Love
as Rosario Chiarchiaro
1954
6.5
Funniest Show on Earth
as Tottons
1953
5.9
Una di quelle
as Rocco Bardelli
1953
7.0
Neapolitan Turk
as Felice Sciosciammocca
1953
7.3
Man, Beast and Virtue
as Prof. Paolino
1953
6.7
Toto and the Women
as Antonio Scaparro
1952
6.8
Toto and the Kings of Rome
as Ercole Pappalardo
1952
7.0
Totó in color
as Antonio Scannagatti
1952
7.3
Cops and Robbers
as Ferdinando Esposito
1951
7.5
Seven Hours of Troubles
as Totò De Pasquale
1951
6.2
Toto the Third Man
as Piero / Paolo / Totò
1951
6.2
47 Talking Corpses
as Il barone Antonio Peletti
1950
7.1
Toto the Sheik
as Antonio Sapone
1950
6.7
Le sei mogli di Barbablù
as Totò Esposito
1950
5.1
Tototarzan
as Antonio Della Buffas
1950
5.9
Figaro qua... Figaro là
as Figaro
1950
6.0
Side Street Story
as Pasquale Miele
1950
7.4
Totò Looking for Wife
as Totò
1950
6.3
Totò le Mokò
as Antonio Lumaconi / Totò le Moko
1949
6.9
The Emperor of Capri
as Antonio De Fazio
1949
6.6
Totò Looking for a House
as Beniamino Lomacchio
1949
6.8
Yvonne of the Night
as Nino, il fantasista
1949
5.1
The Firemen of Viggiù
as Totò
1949
5.4
Toto Tours Italy
as Prof. Totò Casamandrei
1948
6.5
Fifa e arena
as Nicolino Capece
1948
6.7
Two Little Orphans
as Gasparre
1947
5.9
Slave Girl
as Gobbone il cammello (narratore)
1947
5.0
The Rape of the Sabine
as Aristide Tromboni
1945
6.0
Totò nella fossa dei leoni
as Totò
1943
5.7
L'allegro fantasma
as Nicolino & Gelsomino & Antonino
1941
5.2
San Giovanni decollato
as Mastro Agostino Miciacio
1940
6.6
Animal Crackers
as Barone Tolomeo dei Tolomei
1939
5.1
Hands Off Me!
as Conte Toto di Torretota
1937
6.2