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