Acting · Naples, Campania, Italy · Born February 14, 1898
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.
MovieTotò e il Principe De Curtis - L'uomo oltre la maschera
2023
as Se stesso
MovieWe Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieCinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieSiamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
2020
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieNaples '44
2016
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHollywood sul Tevere
2009
MovieHow We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
as Self (archive footage)
MovieSuperTotò
1980
MovieAntologia di Totò
1978
as Totò (se stesso)
MovieForza Italia!
1977
as Self (archive footage)
MovieKolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977
MovieUn sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
1975
as (archive footage)
MovieCaprice Italian Style
1968
as Anziano Signore / Iago
MovieWhat Are the Clouds?
1968
as Iago
MovieTotò Story
1968
MovieTutto Totò - Il tuttofare
1967
MovieTutto Totò - Totò a Napoli
1967
as Totò, la guida non autorizzata
MovieTutto Totò - Totò Ciak
1967
as Totò l'agente segreto
MovieTutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye
1967
as musicista capellone
MovieIl latitante
1967
as Gennaro La Pezza
MovieTutto Totò - Il grande maestro
1967
as Mardoccheo Stonatelli
MovieThe Witches
1967
as Ciancicato Miao (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
MovieThe Earth As Seen from the Moon
1967
as Ciancicato Miao
MovieTutto Totò - La scommessa
1967
as Oberdan Lo Cascio
MovieTutto Totò - Don Giovannino
1967
as Barnaba Parmiggiani aka 'Babà'
MovieTutto Totò - Premio Nobel
1967
as il professor Serafino Bolletta
MovieThe Treasure of San Gennaro
1966
as Don Vincenzo
MovieThe Hawks and the Sparrows
1966
as Totò Innocenti / Frate Cicillo
MovieRita the American Girl
1965
as Serafino Benvenuti
MovieThe Mandrake
1965
as il frate
MovieLatin Lovers
1965
as Rag. Antonio Gargiulo (ep. Amore e morte)
MovieTotò d'Arabia
1965
as Totò
MovieBeautiful Families
1964
as Filiberto Comanducci
MovieWhat Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
1964
as Totò Baby / il Padre
MovieLaughs Italian Style
1964
MovieTotò versus the Black Pirate
1964
as Josè
MovieThe Commandant
1963
as Col. Antonio Cavalli
MovieGli onorevoli
1963
as Antonio La Trippa
MovieToto and Cleopatra
1963
as Marc'Antonio / Totonno
MovieTotò sexy
1963
as Nini Cantachiaro
MovieLe motorizzate
1963
as Urbano Cacace (segment "Il Vigile Ignoto")
MovieThe Monk of Monza
1963
as Pasquale Cicciacalda / Don Manuel
MovieTotò vs the Four
1963
as commissario Antonio Saracino
MovieThe Shortest Day
1963
as frate bersagliere
MovieTwo Colonels
1963
as Colonnello Di Maggio
MovieToto at Night
1962
as Nini
MovieTotò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
1962
as Antonio La Puzza / Amministratore di Canarinis
MovieLo smemorato di Collegno
1962
as lo smemorato
MovieTotò diabolicus
1962
as Galeazzo / Carlo / Scipione / Antonio / Laudomia / Pasquale
MovieTotò versus Maciste
1962
as Totokamen
MovieThe Two Marshals
1961
as Antonio Capurro
MovieTotòtruffa '62
1961
as Antonio LoRuffo
MovieSua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
1961
as Dott. Biagio Tanzarella
MovieTotò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
1961
as Antonio Barbacane
MovieHe Who Hesitates Is Lost
1960
as Antonio Guardalavecchia
MovieThe Passionate Thief
1960
as Umberto 'Infortunio' Pennazzuto
MovieLetto a tre piazze
1960
as Antonio Di Cosimo
MovieToto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
1960
as Cavalier Antonio Cocozza
MovieSignori si nasce
1960
as Ottone Degli Ulivi, detto Zazà
MovieNoi duri
1960
as L'Algerino
MovieLa cambiale
1959
as Cesare Posalaquaglia
MovieYou're on Your Own
1959
as Il nonno illuminato
MovieThe Thieves
1959
as Commissario Di Savio
MovieThe Overtaxed
1959
as Torquato Pezzella
MovieToto in Madrid
1959
as Totò Scorceletti
MovieTotò in the Moon
1958
as Pasquale Belafronte
MovieToto in Paris
1958
as Marchese Gastone de Chemantel / Chateau-Boiron / il vagabondo Totò
MovieThe Law Is the Law
1958
as Giuseppe La Paglia
MovieLegs of Gold
1958
as Barone Luigi Fontana
MovieTotò, Peppino e le fanatiche
1958
as Antonio Vignarello
MovieBig Deal on Madonna Street
1958
as Dante Cruciani
MovieToto and Marcellino
1958
as Il Professore
MovieTotò, Vittorio and the Doctor
1957
as Michele Spillone detto Mike
MovieTotò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
1956
as Antonio
MovieToto, Peppino, and the Hussy
1956
as Antonio Caponi
MovieTotò Double or Nothing?
1956
as Duca Gagliardo della Forcoletta
MovieThe Band of Honest Men
1956
as Antonio Buonocore
TVCinépanorama
1956
as Self
MovieIl coraggio
1955
as Gennaro Vaccariello
MovieRoman Tales
1955
as Professor Semprini
MovieDestinazione Piovarolo
1955
as Antonio La Quaglia
MovieAre We Men or Corporals?
1955
as Totò Esposito
MovieTotò all'inferno
1955
as Antonio Marchi
MovieToto and Carolina
1955
as Antonio Caccavallo
MovieVariety carousel
1955
MovieTotò Seeks Peace
1954
as Gennaro Piselli
MovieThe Gold of Naples
1954
as Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")
MovieIl medico dei pazzi
1954
as Felice Sciosciammocca
MovieThe Three Thieves
1954
as Tapioca
MoviePoverty and Nobility
1954
as Don Felice Sciosciammocca
MovieThe Anatomy of Love
1954
as Dionillo
MovieWhere Is Freedom?
1954
as Salvatore Lojacono
MovieOf Life and Love
1954
as Rosario Chiarchiaro
MovieFunniest Show on Earth
1953
as Tottons
MovieUna di quelle
1953
as Rocco Bardelli
MovieNeapolitan Turk
1953
as Felice Sciosciammocca
MovieMan, Beast and Virtue
1953
as Prof. Paolino
MovieToto and the Women
1952
as Antonio Scaparro
MovieToto and the Kings of Rome
1952
as Ercole Pappalardo
MovieTotó in color
1952
as Antonio Scannagatti
MovieCops and Robbers
1951
as Ferdinando Esposito
MovieSeven Hours of Troubles
1951
as Totò De Pasquale
MovieToto the Third Man
1951
as Piero / Paolo / Totò
Movie47 Talking Corpses
1950
as Il barone Antonio Peletti
MovieToto the Sheik
1950
as Antonio Sapone
MovieLe sei mogli di Barbablù
1950
as Totò Esposito
MovieTototarzan
1950
as Antonio Della Buffas
MovieFigaro qua... Figaro là
1950
as Figaro
MovieSide Street Story
1950
as Pasquale Miele
MovieTotò Looking for Wife
1950
as Totò
MovieTotò le Mokò
1949
as Antonio Lumaconi / Totò le Moko
MovieThe Emperor of Capri
1949
as Antonio De Fazio
MovieTotò Looking for a House
1949
as Beniamino Lomacchio
MovieYvonne of the Night
1949
as Nino, il fantasista
MovieThe Firemen of Viggiù
1949
as Totò
MovieToto Tours Italy
1948
as Prof. Totò Casamandrei
MovieFifa e arena
1948
as Nicolino Capece
MovieTwo Little Orphans
1947
as Gasparre
MovieSlave Girl
1947
as Gobbone il cammello (narratore)
MovieThe Rape of the Sabine
1945
as Aristide Tromboni
MovieTwo Hearts Against the Beast
1943
as Totò
MovieL'allegro fantasma
1941
as Nicolino & Gelsomino & Antonino
MovieSan Giovanni decollato
1940
as Mastro Agostino Miciacio
MovieAnimal Crackers
1939
as Barone Tolomeo dei Tolomei
MovieHands Off Me!
1937
as Conte Toto di Torretota
