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.

Totò

Totò

Biography

Il coraggio

Totòtruffa '62

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Forza Italia!

Roman Tales

Latin Lovers

Totò Story

Toto the Sheik

The Treasure of San Gennaro

Where Is Freedom?

The Hawks and the Sparrows

The Gold of Naples

The Shortest Day

Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare

The Witches

Totò Looking for a House

Letto a tre piazze

Toto and the Women

Totò le Mokò

Hollywood sul Tevere

Yvonne of the Night

Caprice Italian Style

Toto in Paris

Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy

Totò in the Moon

Totò Looking for Wife

The Anatomy of Love

Toto and Carolina

The Overtaxed

Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life

The Two Marshals

Toto and Cleopatra

Totò versus Maciste

The Passionate Thief

Il medico dei pazzi

Animal Crackers

Toto Tours Italy

The Mandrake

Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today

Figaro qua... Figaro là

Slave Girl

Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye

Cops and Robbers

Poverty and Nobility

Le sei mogli di Barbablù

Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare

Totò sexy

Totò diabolicus

The Thieves

Laughs Italian Style

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

Totò all'inferno

The Law Is the Law

Toto and Marcellino

The Band of Honest Men

Le motorizzate

Totò Double or Nothing?

Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche

Toto and the Kings of Rome

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti

Totò vs the Four

La cambiale

Totó in color

47 Talking Corpses

Two Colonels

Gli onorevoli

Side Street Story

Toto in Madrid

Lo smemorato di Collegno

Funniest Show on Earth

Tototarzan

Toto the Third Man

Seven Hours of Troubles

He Who Hesitates Is Lost

The Three Thieves

Signori si nasce

Tutto Totò - La scommessa