Highest rated as cast or director
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 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.
Acted in 118
2020s
- 2023
Totò e il Principe De Curtis - L'uomo oltre la maschera
Se stesso
1980s
- 1980
SuperTotò
Movie
1970s
- 1978
Antologia di Totò
Totò (se stesso)
- 1977
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
Movie
- 1975
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
(archive footage)
1960s
- 1968
Caprice Italian Style
Anziano Signore / Iago
What Are the Clouds?
Iago
Totò Story
Movie
- 1967
Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare
Movie
Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli
Totò, la guida non autorizzata
Il latitante
Gennaro La Pezza
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
Mardoccheo Stonatelli
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
Ciancicato Miao
Tutto Totò - La scommessa
Oberdan Lo Cascio
Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel
il professor Serafino Bolletta
- 1966
The Hawks and the Sparrows
Totò Innocenti / Frate Cicillo
- 1965
The Mandrake
il frate
Latin Lovers
Rag. Antonio Gargiulo (ep. Amore e morte)
Totò d'Arabia
Totò
- 1964
Beautiful Families
Filiberto Comanducci
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
Totò Baby / il Padre
Laughs Italian Style
Movie
Totò versus the Black Pirate
Josè
- 1963
The Commandant
Col. Antonio Cavalli
Toto and Cleopatra
Marc'Antonio / Totonno
Totò sexy
Nini Cantachiaro
Le motorizzate
Urbano Cacace (segment "Il Vigile Ignoto")
The Monk of Monza
Pasquale Cicciacalda / Don Manuel
Totò vs the Four
commissario Antonio Saracino
Two Colonels
Colonnello Di Maggio
- 1962
Toto at Night
Nini
Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
Antonio La Puzza / Amministratore di Canarinis
Totò versus Maciste
Totokamen
- 1961
The Two Marshals
Antonio Capurro
Totòtruffa '62
Antonio LoRuffo
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
Dott. Biagio Tanzarella
Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
Antonio Barbacane
- 1960
The Passionate Thief
Umberto 'Infortunio' Pennazzuto
Letto a tre piazze
Antonio Di Cosimo
Noi duri
L'Algerino
1950s
- 1959
La cambiale
Cesare Posalaquaglia
You're on Your Own
Il nonno illuminato
The Thieves
Commissario Di Savio
The Overtaxed
Torquato Pezzella
Toto in Madrid
Totò Scorceletti
- 1958
Totò in the Moon
Pasquale Belafronte
Toto in Paris
Marchese Gastone de Chemantel / Chateau-Boiron / il vagabondo Totò
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
Antonio Vignarello
Toto and Marcellino
Il Professore
- 1957
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Michele Spillone detto Mike
- 1956
The Band of Honest Men
Antonio Buonocore
- 1955
Il coraggio
Gennaro Vaccariello
Destinazione Piovarolo
Antonio La Quaglia
Are We Men or Corporals?
Totò Esposito
Totò all'inferno
Antonio Marchi
Toto and Carolina
Antonio Caccavallo
Variety carousel
Movie
- 1954
Totò Seeks Peace
Gennaro Piselli
Il medico dei pazzi
Felice Sciosciammocca
The Three Thieves
Tapioca
The Anatomy of Love
Dionillo
Where Is Freedom?
Salvatore Lojacono
Of Life and Love
Rosario Chiarchiaro
- 1953
Funniest Show on Earth
Tottons
Una di quelle
Rocco Bardelli
Man, Beast and Virtue
Prof. Paolino
- 1952
Toto and the Women
Antonio Scaparro
Toto and the Kings of Rome
Ercole Pappalardo
Totó in color
Antonio Scannagatti
- 1951
Cops and Robbers
Ferdinando Esposito
Seven Hours of Troubles
Totò De Pasquale
Toto the Third Man
Piero / Paolo / Totò
- 1950
47 Talking Corpses
Il barone Antonio Peletti
Toto the Sheik
Antonio Sapone
Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Totò Esposito
Tototarzan
Antonio Della Buffas
Figaro qua... Figaro là
Figaro
Side Street Story
Pasquale Miele
Totò Looking for Wife
Totò
1940s
- 1949
Totò le Mokò
Antonio Lumaconi / Totò le Moko
The Emperor of Capri
Antonio De Fazio
Totò Looking for a House
Beniamino Lomacchio
Yvonne of the Night
Nino
The Firemen of Viggiù
Totò
- 1948
Fifa e arena
Nicolino Capece
- 1947
Two Little Orphans
Gasparre
- 1945
The Rape of the Sabine
Aristide Tromboni
- 1943
Two Hearts Against the Beast
Totò
- 1941
L'allegro fantasma
Nicolino & Gelsomino & Antonino
- 1940
San Giovanni decollato
Mastro Agostino Miciacio
1930s
- 1939
Animal Crackers
Barone Tolomeo dei Tolomei
- 1937
Hands Off Me!
Conte Toto di Torretota
Wrote 7
1960s
- 1967
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
Writer
- 1961
The Two Marshals
Idea
1950s
- 1955
Il coraggio
Screenplay
Are We Men or Corporals?
Screenplay, Story
Totò all'inferno
Screenplay, Story
- 1954
Il medico dei pazzi
Screenplay
- 1952
Totó in color
Story
Appearances7
2020s
- 2021
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Self (archive footage)
- 2020
Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2010s
- 2016
Naples '44
Self (archive footage)
2000s
- 2004
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Self (archive footage)
1970s
- 1977
Forza Italia!
Self (archive footage)
1950s
- 1956
