8.5
8.5
What Are the Clouds?
1968
as Iago
Totò
Acting
Born:February 14, 1898
Died:April 15, 1967(aged 69)
Birthplace:Naples, Campania, Italy
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (120 movies)
8.2
8.2
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
1967
as Ciancicato Miao
8.1
8.1
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958
as Dante Cruciani
8.0
8.0
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
1956
as Antonio Caponi
8.0
8.0
SuperTotò
1980
8.0
8.0
Poverty and Nobility
1954
as Don Felice Sciosciammocca
7.7
7.7
The Band of Honest Men
1956
as Antonio Buonocore
7.7
7.7
Totòtruffa '62
1961
as Antonio LoRuffo
7.6
7.6
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
1956
as Antonio
7.5
7.5
Two Colonels
1963
as Colonnello Di Maggio
7.5
7.5
Cops and Robbers
1951
as Ferdinando Esposito
7.4
7.4
The Treasure of San Gennaro
1966
as Don Vincenzo
7.4
7.4
Side Street Story
1950
as Pasquale Miele
7.3
7.3
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
as Self (archive footage)
7.3
7.3
The Gold of Naples
1954
as Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")
7.3
7.3
Totó in color
1952
as Antonio Scannagatti
7.2
7.2
Neapolitan Turk
1953
as Felice Sciosciammocca
7.2
7.2
The Law Is the Law
1958
as Giuseppe La Paglia
7.2
7.2
The Hawks and the Sparrows
1966
as Totò Innocenti / Frate Cicillo
7.2
7.2
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
1960
as Cavalier Antonio Cocozza
7.2
7.2
The Two Marshals
1961
as Antonio Capurro
7.1
7.1
You're on Your Own
1959
as Il nonno illuminato
7.1
7.1
47 Talking Corpses
1950
as Il barone Antonio Peletti
7.1
7.1
Totò diabolicus
1962
as Galeazzo / Carlo / Scipione / Antonio / Laudomia / Pasquale
7.1
7.1
The Overtaxed
1959
as Torquato Pezzella
7.1
7.1
Il medico dei pazzi
1954
Screenplay
7.0
7.0
The Monk of Monza
1963
as Pasquale Cicciacalda / Don Manuel
7.0
7.0
Toto and the Kings of Rome
1952
as Ercole Pappalardo
7.0
7.0
Letto a tre piazze
1960
as Antonio Di Cosimo
7.0
7.0
Signori si nasce
1960
as Ottone Degli Ulivi, detto Zazà
7.0
7.0
Una di quelle
1953
as Rocco Bardelli
6.9
6.9
The Passionate Thief
1960
as Umberto 'Infortunio' Pennazzuto
6.9
6.9
Totò Double or Nothing?
1956
as Duca Gagliardo della Forcoletta
6.9
6.9
He Who Hesitates Is Lost
1960
as Antonio Guardalavecchia
6.9
6.9
Totò le Mokò
1949
as Antonio Lumaconi / Totò le Moko
6.8
6.8
Gli onorevoli
1963
as Antonio La Trippa
6.8
6.8
Destinazione Piovarolo
1955
as Antonio La Quaglia
6.8
6.8
Toto and the Women
1952
as Antonio Scaparro
6.8
6.8
Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
2020
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.8
6.8
Totò Looking for a House
1949
as Beniamino Lomacchio
6.8
6.8
Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
1961
as Antonio Barbacane
6.7
6.7
Lo smemorato di Collegno
1962
as lo smemorato
6.7
6.7
Fifa e arena
1948
as Nicolino Capece
6.7
6.7
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
as Self (archive footage)
6.7
6.7
Toto the Sheik
1950
as Antonio Sapone
6.7
6.7
Totò vs the Four
1963
as commissario Antonio Saracino
6.7
6.7
Beautiful Families
1964
as Filiberto Comanducci
6.7
6.7
Are We Men or Corporals?
1955
Screenplay
6.7
6.7
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
1961
as Dott. Biagio Tanzarella
6.7
6.7
Man, Beast and Virtue
1953
as Prof. Paolino
6.7
6.7
Toto and Cleopatra
1963
as Marc'Antonio / Totonno
6.6
6.6
The Commandant
1963
as Col. Antonio Cavalli
6.6
6.6
La cambiale
1959
as Cesare Posalaquaglia
6.6
6.6
The Emperor of Capri
1949
as Antonio De Fazio
6.6
6.6
San Giovanni decollato
1940
as Mastro Agostino Miciacio
6.6
6.6
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
1964
as Totò Baby / il Padre
6.5
6.5
Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
1962
as Antonio La Puzza / Amministratore di Canarinis
6.5
6.5
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
1958
as Antonio Vignarello
6.5
6.5
Totò versus Maciste
1962
as Totokamen
6.5
6.5
Noi duri
1960
as L'Algerino
6.5
6.5
Toto and Carolina
1955
as Antonio Caccavallo
6.5
6.5
Of Life and Love
1954
as Rosario Chiarchiaro
6.4
6.4
Where Is Freedom?
1954
as Salvatore Lojacono
6.4
6.4
The Anatomy of Love
1954
as Dionillo
6.4
6.4
Il coraggio
1955
Screenplay
6.4
6.4
Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel
1967
as il professor Serafino Bolletta
6.4
6.4
Toto in Madrid
1959
as Totò Scorceletti
6.4
6.4
Toto Tours Italy
1948
as Prof. Totò Casamandrei
6.4
6.4
Totò Story
1968
6.3
6.3
Totò Looking for Wife
1950
as Totò
6.3
6.3
Totò Seeks Peace
1954
as Gennaro Piselli
6.3
6.3
Totò versus the Black Pirate
1964
as Josè
6.3
6.3
The Three Thieves
1954
as Tapioca
6.3
6.3
Toto and Marcellino
1958
as Il Professore
6.2
6.2
Totò all'inferno
1955
Screenplay
6.2
6.2
Totò d'Arabia
1965
as Totò
6.2
6.2
Toto the Third Man
1951
as Piero / Paolo / Totò
6.2
6.2
Hands Off Me!
1937
as Conte Toto di Torretota
6.2
6.2
Toto in Paris
1958
as Marchese Gastone de Chemantel / Chateau-Boiron / il vagabondo Totò
6.2
6.2
The Shortest Day
1963
as frate bersagliere
6.2
6.2
Seven Hours of Troubles
1951
as Totò De Pasquale
6.1
6.1
Le motorizzate
1963
as Urbano Cacace (segment "Il Vigile Ignoto")
6.1
6.1
Caprice Italian Style
1968
as Anziano Signore / Iago
6.0
6.0
The Witches
1967
as Ciancicato Miao (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
6.0
6.0
The Rape of the Sabine
1945
as Aristide Tromboni
6.0
6.0
Variety carousel
1955
6.0
6.0
Figaro qua... Figaro là
1950
as Figaro
5.9
5.9
Tototarzan
1950
as Antonio Della Buffas
5.9
5.9
Two Little Orphans
1947
as Gasparre
5.9
5.9
Funniest Show on Earth
1953
as Tottons
5.9
5.9
Laughs Italian Style
1964
5.9
5.9
Roman Tales
1955
as Professor Semprini
5.9
5.9
Latin Lovers
1965
as Rag. Antonio Gargiulo (ep. Amore e morte)
5.8
5.8
Totò nella fossa dei leoni
1943
as Totò
5.7
5.7
Toto at Night
1962
as Nini
5.7
5.7
The Mandrake
1965
as il frate
5.7
5.7
Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare
1967
5.7
5.7
Naples '44
2016
as Self (archive footage)
5.6
5.6
Totò in the Moon
1958
as Pasquale Belafronte
5.5
5.5
Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak
1967
as Totò l'agente segreto
5.5
5.5
The Thieves
1959
as Commissario Di Savio
5.4
5.4
Il latitante
1967
as Gennaro La Pezza
5.4
5.4
The Firemen of Viggiù
1949
as Totò
5.3
5.3
Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino
1967
as Barnaba Parmiggiani aka 'Babà'
5.2
5.2
L'allegro fantasma
1941
as Nicolino & Gelsomino & Antonino
5.2
5.2
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
1957
as Michele Spillone detto Mike
5.2
5.2
Tutto Totò - La scommessa
1967
as Oberdan Lo Cascio
5.2
5.2
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
1967
Writer
5.1
5.1
Animal Crackers
1939
as Barone Tolomeo dei Tolomei
5.1
5.1
Yvonne of the Night
1949
as Nino, il fantasista
5.1
5.1
Le sei mogli di Barbablù
1950
as Totò Esposito
5.0
5.0
Slave Girl
1947
as Gobbone il cammello (narratore)
5.0
5.0
Legs of Gold
1958
as Barone Luigi Fontana
4.9
4.9
Totò Sexy
1963
as Nini Cantachiaro
4.9
4.9
Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli
1967
as Totò, la guida non autorizzata
4.8
4.8
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
1975
as (archive footage)
4.8
4.8
Rita the American Girl
1965
as Serafino Benvenuti
4.0
4.0
Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye
1967
as musicista capellone
Antologia di Totò
1978
as Totò (se stesso)
Totò e il Principe De Curtis - L'uomo oltre la maschera
2023
as Se stesso
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