Totò
Acting
🎂 1898-02-14
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.
Cast credits(122)
Self
1956
Antonio Capurro
1961
Don Felice Sciosciammocca
1954
Self (archive footage)
2021
Don Vincenzo
1966
Colonnello Di Maggio
1963
Dionillo
1954
Antonio Marchi
1955
Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")
1954
Antonio Della Buffas
1950
Totò Esposito
1950
Self (archive footage)
2021
Marc'Antonio / Totonno
1963
Barone Luigi Fontana
1958
Ciancicato Miao (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
1967
1980
Torquato Pezzella
1959
Cesare Posalaquaglia
1959
Il nonno illuminato
1959
Ferdinando Esposito
1951
Antonio Caponi
1956
Totò Innocenti / Frate Cicillo
1966
Felice Sciosciammocca
1954
Commissario Di Savio
1959
Antonio Buonocore
1956
Antonio Scannagatti
1952
Antonio Di Cosimo
1960
frate bersagliere
1963
Antonio Barbacane
1961
Antonio Guardalavecchia
1960
commissario Antonio Saracino
1963
Antonio La Quaglia
1955
Antonio De Fazio
1949
Totò Scorceletti
1959
musicista capellone
1967
Totò
1950
Ottone Degli Ulivi, detto ZazĂ
1960
Antonio Scaparro
1952
Ercole Pappalardo
1952
Gennaro Piselli
1954
Serafino Benvenuti
1965
Antonio LoRuffo
1961
Dante Cruciani
1958
Anziano Signore / Iago
1968
Antonio La Puzza / Amministratore di Canarinis
1962
Beniamino Lomacchio
1949
Pasquale Cicciacalda / Don Manuel
1963
Totò l'agente segreto
1967
Antonio La Trippa
1963
(archive footage)
1975
Rosario Chiarchiaro
1954
Filiberto Comanducci
1964
Totò De Pasquale
1951
Michele Spillone detto Mike
1957
Gobbone il cammello (narratore)
1947
Pasquale Miele
1950
Prof. Totò Casamandrei
1948
Totò
1965
Galeazzo / Carlo / Scipione / Antonio / Laudomia / Pasquale
1962
Salvatore Lojacono
1954
Prof. Paolino
1953
Felice Sciosciammocca
1953
Professor Semprini
1955
Totò
1949
Tapioca
1954
Conte Toto di Torretota
1937
il professor Serafino Bolletta
1967
lo smemorato
1962
Antonio Sapone
1950
Cavalier Antonio Cocozza
1960
Antonio
1956
Josè
1964
Totò
1943
Totò, la guida non autorizzata
1967
Duca Gagliardo della Forcoletta
1956
Piero / Paolo / Totò
1951
Figaro
1950
il frate
1965
Antonio Lumaconi / Totò le Moko
1949
Giuseppe La Paglia
1958
Rag. Antonio Gargiulo (ep. Amore e morte)
1965
Nicolino Capece
1948
Il Professore
1958
Pasquale Belafronte
1958
Nini
1962
Gennaro La Pezza
1967
Nicolino & Gelsomino & Antonino
1941
Antonio Vignarello
1958
Iago
1968
Marchese Gastone de Chemantel / Chateau-Boiron / il vagabondo Totò
1958
Totokamen
1962
Nini Cantachiaro
1963
Antonio Caccavallo
1955
Col. Antonio Cavalli
1963
Barone Tolomeo dei Tolomei
1939
Urbano Cacace (segment "Il Vigile Ignoto")
1963
Il barone Antonio Peletti
1950
L'Algerino
1960
1968
Dott. Biagio Tanzarella
1961
Tottons
1953
Self (archive footage)
2004
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020
Umberto 'Infortunio' Pennazzuto
1960
1967
Totò Esposito
1955
Rocco Bardelli
1953
Totò Baby / il Padre
1964
1964
Nino, il fantasista
1949
Gasparre
1947
Ciancicato Miao
1967
Mardoccheo Stonatelli
1967
Se stesso
2023
Gennaro Vaccariello
1955
Self (archive footage)
2016
Mastro Agostino Miciacio
1940
Barnaba Parmiggiani aka 'BabĂ '
1967
Oberdan Lo Cascio
1967
Aristide Tromboni
1945
1955
Totò (se stesso)
1978