- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- February 14, 1898
- Place of Birth
- Naples, Campania, Italy
- Died
- April 15, 1967
Totò
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 most…
Filmography
'A Livella
movie'A Livella
2025 · Original Concept
movieTotò e il Principe De Curtis - L'uomo oltre la maschera
2023 · Se stesso
movieWe Are Cinema
2021 · Self (archive footage)
movieCinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021 · Self (archive footage)
movieSiamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
2020 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieNaples '44
2016 · Self (archive footage)
movieHollywood sul Tevere
2009
movieHow We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004 · Self (archive footage)
movieSuperTotò
1980
movieAntologia di Totò
1978 · Totò (se stesso)
movieForza Italia!
1977 · Self (archive footage)
movieKolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977
movieUn sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
1975 · (archive footage)
movieCaprice Italian Style
1968 · Anziano Signore / Iago
movieWhat Are the Clouds?
1968 · Iago
movieTotò Story
1968
movieTutto Totò - Il tuttofare
1967
movieTutto Totò - Totò a Napoli
1967 · Totò, la guida non autorizzata
movieTutto Totò - Totò Ciak
1967 · Totò l'agente segreto
movieTutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye
1967 · musicista capellone
movieIl latitante
1967 · Gennaro La Pezza
movieTutto Totò - Il grande maestro
1967 · Mardoccheo Stonatelli, Writer
movieThe Witches
1967 · Ciancicato Miao (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
movieThe Earth As Seen from the Moon
1967 · Ciancicato Miao
movieTutto Totò - La scommessa
1967 · Oberdan Lo Cascio
movieTutto Totò - Don Giovannino
1967 · Barnaba Parmiggiani aka 'Babà'
movieTutto Totò - Premio Nobel
1967 · il professor Serafino Bolletta
movieThe Treasure of San Gennaro
1966 · Don Vincenzo
movieThe Hawks and the Sparrows
1966 · Totò Innocenti / Frate Cicillo
movieRita the American Girl
1965 · Serafino Benvenuti
movieThe Mandrake
1965 · il frate
movieLatin Lovers
1965 · Rag. Antonio Gargiulo (ep. Amore e morte)
movieTotò d'Arabia
1965 · Totò
movieBeautiful Families
1964 · Filiberto Comanducci
movieWhat Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
1964 · Totò Baby / il Padre
movieLaughs Italian Style
1964
movieTotò versus the Black Pirate
1964 · Josè
movieThe Commandant
1963 · Col. Antonio Cavalli
movieGli onorevoli
1963 · Antonio La Trippa
movieToto and Cleopatra
1963 · Marc'Antonio / Totonno
movieTotò sexy
1963 · Nini Cantachiaro
movieLe motorizzate
1963 · Urbano Cacace (segment "Il Vigile Ignoto")
movieThe Monk of Monza
1963 · Pasquale Cicciacalda / Don Manuel
movieTotò vs the Four
1963 · commissario Antonio Saracino
movieThe Shortest Day
1963 · frate bersagliere
movieTwo Colonels
1963 · Colonnello Di Maggio
movieToto at Night
1962 · Nini
movieTotò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
1962 · Antonio La Puzza / Amministratore di Canarinis
movieLo smemorato di Collegno
1962 · lo smemorato
movieTotò diabolicus
1962 · Galeazzo / Carlo / Scipione / Antonio / Laudomia / Pasquale
movieTotò versus Maciste
1962 · Totokamen
movieThe Two Marshals
1961 · Antonio Capurro, Idea
movieTotòtruffa '62
1961 · Antonio LoRuffo
movieSua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
1961 · Dott. Biagio Tanzarella
movieTotò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
1961 · Antonio Barbacane
movieHe Who Hesitates Is Lost
1960 · Antonio Guardalavecchia
movieThe Passionate Thief
1960 · Umberto 'Infortunio' Pennazzuto
movieLetto a tre piazze
1960 · Antonio Di Cosimo
movieToto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
1960 · Cavalier Antonio Cocozza
movieSignori si nasce
1960 · Ottone Degli Ulivi, detto Zazà
movieNoi duri
1960 · L'Algerino
movieLa cambiale
1959 · Cesare Posalaquaglia
movieYou're on Your Own
1959 · Il nonno illuminato
movieThe Thieves
1959 · Commissario Di Savio
movieThe Overtaxed
1959 · Torquato Pezzella
movieToto in Madrid
1959 · Totò Scorceletti
movieTotò in the Moon
1958 · Pasquale Belafronte
movieToto in Paris
1958 · Marchese Gastone de Chemantel / Chateau-Boiron / il vagabondo Totò
movieThe Law Is the Law
1958 · Giuseppe La Paglia
movieLegs of Gold
1958 · Barone Luigi Fontana
movieTotò, Peppino e le fanatiche
1958 · Antonio Vignarello
movieBig Deal on Madonna Street
1958 · Dante Cruciani
movieToto and Marcellino
1958 · Il Professore
movieTotò, Vittorio and the Doctor
1957 · Michele Spillone detto Mike
movieTotò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
1956 · Antonio
movieToto, Peppino, and the Hussy
1956 · Antonio Caponi
movieTotò Double or Nothing?
1956 · Duca Gagliardo della Forcoletta
movieThe Band of Honest Men
1956 · Antonio Buonocore
tvCinépanorama
1956 · Self
movieIl coraggio
1955 · Gennaro Vaccariello, Screenplay
movieRoman Tales
1955 · Professor Semprini
movieDestinazione Piovarolo
1955 · Antonio La Quaglia
movieAre We Men or Corporals?
1955 · Totò Esposito, Story, Screenplay
movieTotò all'inferno
1955 · Antonio Marchi, Screenplay, Story
movieToto and Carolina
1955 · Antonio Caccavallo
movieVariety carousel
1955
movieTotò Seeks Peace
1954 · Gennaro Piselli
movieThe Gold of Naples
1954 · Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")
movieIl medico dei pazzi
1954 · Felice Sciosciammocca, Screenplay
movieThe Three Thieves
1954 · Tapioca
moviePoverty and Nobility
1954 · Don Felice Sciosciammocca
movieThe Anatomy of Love
1954 · Dionillo
movieWhere Is Freedom?
1954 · Salvatore Lojacono
movieOf Life and Love
1954 · Rosario Chiarchiaro
movieFunniest Show on Earth
1953 · Tottons
movieUna di quelle
1953 · Rocco Bardelli
movieNeapolitan Turk
1953 · Felice Sciosciammocca
movieMan, Beast and Virtue
1953 · Prof. Paolino
movieToto and the Women
1952 · Antonio Scaparro
movieToto and the Kings of Rome
1952 · Ercole Pappalardo
movieTotó in color
1952 · Antonio Scannagatti, Story
movieCops and Robbers
1951 · Ferdinando Esposito
movieSeven Hours of Troubles
1951 · Totò De Pasquale
movieToto the Third Man
1951 · Piero / Paolo / Totò
movie47 Talking Corpses
1950 · Il barone Antonio Peletti
movieToto the Sheik
1950 · Antonio Sapone
movieLe sei mogli di Barbablù
1950 · Totò Esposito
movieTototarzan
1950 · Antonio Della Buffas
movieFigaro qua... Figaro là
1950 · Figaro
movieSide Street Story
1950 · Pasquale Miele
movieTotò Looking for Wife
1950 · Totò
movieTotò le Mokò
1949 · Antonio Lumaconi / Totò le Moko
movieThe Emperor of Capri
1949 · Antonio De Fazio
movieTotò Looking for a House
1949 · Beniamino Lomacchio
movieYvonne of the Night
1949 · Nino, il fantasista
movieThe Firemen of Viggiù
1949 · Totò
movieToto Tours Italy
1948 · Prof. Totò Casamandrei
movieFifa e arena
1948 · Nicolino Capece
movieTwo Little Orphans
1947 · Gasparre
movieSlave Girl
1947 · Gobbone il cammello (narratore)
movieThe Rape of the Sabine
1945 · Aristide Tromboni
movieTwo Hearts Against the Beast
1943 · Totò
movieL'allegro fantasma
1941 · Nicolino & Gelsomino & Antonino
movieSan Giovanni decollato
1940 · Mastro Agostino Miciacio
movieAnimal Crackers
1939 · Barone Tolomeo dei Tolomei
movieHands Off Me!
1937 · Conte Toto di Torretota