Totò
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: February 14, 1898
Day of Death: April 15, 1967 (69 years old)
Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy
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.
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1967
Actor Ciancicato Miao (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
The Witches
Actor Gennaro La Pezza
Il latitante
Actor
Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare
Actor Barnaba Parmiggiani aka 'Babà'
Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino
Actor Totò l'agente segreto
Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak
Actor Totò, la guida non autorizzata
Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli
Actor musicista capellone
Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye
Actor il professor Serafino Bolletta
Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel
Actor Oberdan Lo Cascio
Tutto Totò - La scommessa
Actor Mardoccheo Stonatelli
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
Actor Ciancicato Miao
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
Writer
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
1966
1965
1964
1963
Actor Antonio La Trippa
Gli onorevoli
Actor commissario Antonio Saracino
Totò vs the Four
Actor Pasquale Cicciacalda / Don Manuel
The Monk of Monza
Actor Marc'Antonio / Totonno
Toto and Cleopatra
Actor Col. Antonio Cavalli
The Commandant
Actor Urbano Cacace (segment "Il Vigile Ignoto")
Le motorizzate
Actor Colonnello Di Maggio
Two Colonels
Actor frate bersagliere
The Shortest Day
Actor Nini Cantachiaro
Totò Sexy
1962
1961
1960
1959
1958
Actor Dante Cruciani
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Actor Marchese Gastone de Chemantel / Chateau-Boiron / il vagabondo Totò
Toto in Paris
Actor Antonio Vignarello
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
Actor Il Professore
Toto and Marcellino
Actor Pasquale Belafronte
Totò nella Luna
Actor Giuseppe La Paglia
The Law Is the Law
Actor Barone Luigi Fontana
Legs of Gold
1957
1956
1955
Actor Antonio Caccavallo
Toto and Carolina
Actor Gennaro Vaccariello
Il coraggio
Actor Antonio Marchi
Totò all'inferno
Actor Antonio La Quaglia
Destinazione Piovarolo
Actor
Variety carousel
Actor Totò Esposito
Are We Men or Corporals?
Actor Professor Semprini
Roman Tales
Screenplay
Are We Men or Corporals?
Story
Are We Men or Corporals?
Screenplay
Totò all'inferno
Screenplay
Il coraggio
Story
Totò all'inferno
1954
Actor Gennaro Piselli
Totò cerca pace
Actor Felice Sciosciammocca
Il medico dei pazzi
Actor Tapioca
I tre ladri
Actor Rosario Chiarchiaro
Of Life and Love
Actor Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")
The Gold of Naples
Actor Salvatore Lojacono
Where Is Freedom?
Actor Don Felice Sciosciammocca
Poverty and Nobility
Actor Dionillo
The Anatomy of Love
Screenplay
Il medico dei pazzi
