Totò
Age: 69 | From: Napoli, Campania, Italia
Person Details
Birthday: 1898-02-15 10:47:14
Death: 1967-04-15 10:47:14
Aliases: Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi De Curtis di Bisanzio , Antonio De Curtis , Antonio Vincenzo Stefano Clemente , Тото , Антоніо Де Куртіс
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Napoli, Campania, Italia
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 16
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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 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 other 96 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 popular request 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.
Most Famous Work
Totó in color
(1952) Story
Are We Men or Corporals?
(1955) Screenplay
The Two Marshals
(1961) Idea
Il medico dei pazzi
(1954) Screenplay
Totò all'inferno
(1955) Screenplay
Il coraggio
(1955) Screenplay
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
(1967) WriterActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Se stesso | |
| 2021 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2020 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2016 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2004 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1978 | Totò (se stesso) | |
| 1975 | (archive footage) | |
| 1968 | Anziano Signore / Iago | |
| Iago | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1967 | N/A | |
| Totò, la guida non autorizzata | ||
| Totò l'agente segreto | ||
| musicista capellone | ||
| Gennaro La Pezza | ||
| Mardoccheo Stonatelli | ||
| Ciancicato Miao | ||
| Ciancicato Miao | ||
| Oberdan Lo Cascio | ||
| Barnaba Parmiggiani aka 'Babà' | ||
| il professor Serafino Bolletta | ||
| 1966 | Don Vincenzo | |
| Totò Innocenti / Frate Cicillo | ||
| 1965 | Serafino Benvenuti | |
| il frate | ||
| Rag. Antonio Gargiulo (ep. Amore e morte) | ||
| Totò | ||
| 1964 | Filiberto Comanducci | |
| Totò Baby / il Padre | ||
| N/A | ||
| Josè | ||
| 1963 | Col. Antonio Cavalli | |
| Antonio La Trippa | ||
| Nini Cantachiaro | ||
| Marc'Antonio / Totonno | ||
| Urbano Cacace (segment "Il Vigile Ignoto") | ||
| Pasquale Cicciacalda / Don Manuel | ||
| commissario Antonio Saracino | ||
| frate bersagliere | ||
| Colonnello Di Maggio | ||
| 1962 | Nini | |
| Antonio La Puzza / Amministratore di Canarinis | ||
| lo smemorato | ||
| Galeazzo / Carlo / Scipione / Antonio / Laudomia / Pasquale | ||
| Totokamen | ||
| 1961 | Antonio Capurro | |
| Antonio LoRuffo | ||
| Dott. Biagio Tanzarella | ||
| Antonio Barbacane | ||
| 1960 | Antonio Guardalavecchia | |
| Umberto 'Infortunio' Pennazzuto | ||
| Antonio Di Cosimo | ||
| Cavalier Antonio Cocozza | ||
| Ottone Degli Ulivi, detto Zazà | ||
| L'Algerino | ||
| 1959 | Cesare Posalaquaglia | |
| Il nonno illuminato | ||
| Commissario Di Savio | ||
| Torquato Pezzella | ||
| Totò Scorceletti | ||
| 1958 | Pasquale Belafronte | |
| Marchese Gastone de Chemantel / Chateau-Boiron / il vagabondo Totò | ||
| Giuseppe La Paglia | ||
| Barone Luigi Fontana | ||
| Antonio Vignarello | ||
| Dante Cruciani | ||
| Il Professore | ||
| 1957 | Michele Spillone detto Mike | |
| 1956 | Antonio | |
| Antonio Caponi | ||
| Duca Gagliardo della Forcoletta | ||
| Antonio Buonocore | ||
| Self | ||
| 1955 | Gennaro Vaccariello | |
| Professor Semprini | ||
| Antonio La Quaglia | ||
| Totò Esposito | ||
| Antonio Marchi | ||
| Antonio Caccavallo | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1954 | Gennaro Piselli | |
| Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo") | ||
| Felice Sciosciammocca | ||
| Tapioca | ||
| Don Felice Sciosciammocca | ||
| Dionillo | ||
| Salvatore Lojacono | ||
| Rosario Chiarchiaro | ||
| 1953 | Tottons | |
| Rocco Bardelli | ||
| Felice Sciosciammocca | ||
| Prof. Paolino | ||
| 1952 | Antonio Scaparro | |
| Ercole Pappalardo | ||
| Antonio Scannagatti | ||
| 1951 | Ferdinando Esposito | |
| Totò De Pasquale | ||
| Piero / Paolo / Totò | ||
| 1950 | Il barone Antonio Peletti | |
| Antonio Sapone | ||
| Totò Esposito | ||
| Antonio Della Buffas | ||
| Figaro | ||
| Pasquale Miele | ||
| Totò | ||
| 1949 | Antonio Lumaconi / Totò le Moko | |
| Antonio De Fazio | ||
| Beniamino Lomacchio | ||
| Nino, il fantasista | ||
| Totò | ||
| 1948 | Prof. Totò Casamandrei | |
| Nicolino Capece | ||
| 1947 | Gasparre | |
| Gobbone il cammello (narratore) | ||
| 1945 | Aristide Tromboni | |
| 1943 | Totò | |
| 1941 | Nicolino & Gelsomino & Antonino | |
| 1940 | Mastro Agostino Miciacio | |
| 1939 | Barone Tolomeo dei Tolomei | |
| 1937 | Conte Toto di Torretota | |
| Totò di Torretota | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Writer | |
| 1961 | Idea | |
| 1955 | Screenplay | |
| Story | ||
| Screenplay | ||
| Story | ||
| Screenplay | ||
| 1954 | Screenplay | |
| 1952 | Story | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |