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