Cast
Totò
Acting
Cast
Totò
Known for
Acting
Born
1898-02-14
From
Naples, Campania, Italy
Died
1967-04-15
Also known as Antonio De Curtis, Antonio Vincenzo Stefano Clemente, Тото
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.
Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye
as musicista capellone
Big Deal on Madonna Street
as Dante Cruciani
Totò le Mokò
as Antonio Lumaconi / Totò le Moko
The Witches
as Ciancicato Miao (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
as Dott. Biagio Tanzarella
Side Street Story
as Pasquale Miele
Totò Story
Totò sexy
as Nini Cantachiaro
Naples '44
as Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino
as Barnaba Parmiggiani aka 'Babà'
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
as Mardoccheo Stonatelli
La cambiale
as Cesare Posalaquaglia
Latin Lovers
as Rag. Antonio Gargiulo (ep. Amore e morte)
Totòtruffa '62
as Antonio LoRuffo
The Overtaxed
as Torquato Pezzella
Toto in Madrid
as Totò Scorceletti
47 Talking Corpses
as Il barone Antonio Peletti
Totò Looking for a House
as Beniamino Lomacchio
Toto the Sheik
as Antonio Sapone
Toto in Paris
as Marchese Gastone de Chemantel / Chateau-Boiron / il vagabondo Totò
The Treasure of San Gennaro
as Don Vincenzo
Toto and the Women
as Antonio Scaparro
The Shortest Day
as frate bersagliere
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
as Michele Spillone detto Mike
Caprice Italian Style
as Anziano Signore / Iago
The Passionate Thief
as Umberto 'Infortunio' Pennazzuto
Slave Girl
as Gobbone il cammello (narratore)
Roman Tales
as Professor Semprini
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)
SuperTotò
Legs of Gold
as Barone Luigi Fontana
Of Life and Love
as Rosario Chiarchiaro
Totò diabolicus
as Galeazzo / Carlo / Scipione / Antonio / Laudomia / Pasquale
Lo smemorato di Collegno
as lo smemorato
Laughs Italian Style
Poverty and Nobility
as Don Felice Sciosciammocca
Are We Men or Corporals?
as Totò Esposito
The Hawks and the Sparrows
as Totò Innocenti / Frate Cicillo
Totò Double or Nothing?
as Duca Gagliardo della Forcoletta
He Who Hesitates Is Lost
as Antonio Guardalavecchia
The Monk of Monza
as Pasquale Cicciacalda / Don Manuel
Totò d'Arabia
as Totò
Gli onorevoli
as Antonio La Trippa
The Mandrake
as il frate
Figaro qua... Figaro là
as Figaro
You're on Your Own
as Il nonno illuminato
Totò versus Maciste
as Totokamen
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
as Antonio Caponi
Two Colonels
as Colonnello Di Maggio
Toto and Cleopatra
as Marc'Antonio / Totonno
Totò Looking for Wife
as Totò
Beautiful Families
as Filiberto Comanducci
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
as Cavalier Antonio Cocozza
The Gold of Naples
as Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")
The Commandant
as Col. Antonio Cavalli
The Law Is the Law
as Giuseppe La Paglia
Totò vs the Four
as commissario Antonio Saracino
Totó in color
as Antonio Scannagatti
Il coraggio
as Gennaro Vaccariello
Toto Tours Italy
as Prof. Totò Casamandrei
The Two Marshals
as Antonio Capurro
Toto and Carolina
as Antonio Caccavallo
Funniest Show on Earth
as Tottons
Where Is Freedom?
as Salvatore Lojacono
Le motorizzate
as Urbano Cacace (segment "Il Vigile Ignoto")
Totò versus the Black Pirate
as Josè
The Band of Honest Men
as Antonio Buonocore
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
as Antonio Vignarello
Neapolitan Turk
as Felice Sciosciammocca
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
as Totò Baby / il Padre
Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
as Antonio Barbacane
Tutto Totò - La scommessa
as Oberdan Lo Cascio
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
Cops and Robbers
as Ferdinando Esposito
Two Hearts Against the Beast
as Totò
The Three Thieves
as Tapioca
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
as Antonio
Signori si nasce
as Ottone Degli Ulivi, detto Zazà
Noi duri
as L'Algerino
Destinazione Piovarolo
as Antonio La Quaglia
Toto and the Kings of Rome
as Ercole Pappalardo
Seven Hours of Troubles
as Totò De Pasquale
Tototarzan
as Antonio Della Buffas
Totò in the Moon
as Pasquale Belafronte
Totò all'inferno
as Antonio Marchi
The Firemen of Viggiù
as Totò
The Anatomy of Love
as Dionillo
Le sei mogli di Barbablù
as Totò Esposito
Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
as Antonio La Puzza / Amministratore di Canarinis
Il medico dei pazzi
as Felice Sciosciammocca
Yvonne of the Night
as Nino, il fantasista
The Thieves
as Commissario Di Savio
Rita the American Girl
as Serafino Benvenuti
Toto the Third Man
as Piero / Paolo / Totò
Fifa e arena
as Nicolino Capece
Toto and Marcellino
as Il Professore
Hollywood sul Tevere
What Are the Clouds?
as Iago
Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
as (archive footage)
Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare
The Emperor of Capri
as Antonio De Fazio
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
as Self (archive footage)
L'allegro fantasma
as Nicolino & Gelsomino & Antonino
Letto a tre piazze
as Antonio Di Cosimo
Two Little Orphans
as Gasparre
Man, Beast and Virtue
as Prof. Paolino
Animal Crackers
as Barone Tolomeo dei Tolomei
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
as Ciancicato Miao
Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak
as Totò l'agente segreto
Hands Off Me!
as Conte Toto di Torretota
Totò Seeks Peace
as Gennaro Piselli
The Rape of the Sabine
as Aristide Tromboni
Il latitante
as Gennaro La Pezza
Forza Italia!
as Self (archive footage)
Una di quelle
as Rocco Bardelli
Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel
as il professor Serafino Bolletta
San Giovanni decollato
as Mastro Agostino Miciacio
Totò e il Principe De Curtis - L'uomo oltre la maschera
as Se stesso
Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli
as Totò, la guida non autorizzata
Variety carousel
Toto at Night
as Nini
Antologia di Totò
as Totò (se stesso)