Acting
Totò
EN, IT, FR cinema · 125 credits
Born
14 February 1898
Died
15 April 1967 (aged 69)
Birthplace
Naples, Campania, Italy
Also known as Antonio De Curtis · Antonio Vincenzo Stefano Clemente · Тото
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.
Known for
Filmography
'A Livella
2025
'A Livella
Original Concept
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Naples '44
as Self (archive footage)
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
as Self (archive footage)
Antologia di Totò
as Totò (se stesso)
Forza Italia!
as Self (archive footage)
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
as (archive footage)
Caprice Italian Style
as Anziano Signore / Iago
The Witches
as Ciancicato Miao (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
Il latitante
as Gennaro La Pezza
Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino
as Barnaba Parmiggiani aka 'Babà'
Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak
as Totò l'agente segreto
Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye
as musicista capellone
Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli
as Totò, la guida non autorizzata
Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel
as il professor Serafino Bolletta
Tutto Totò - La scommessa
as Oberdan Lo Cascio
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
as Mardoccheo Stonatelli, Writer
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
as Ciancicato Miao
The Hawks and the Sparrows
as Totò Innocenti / Frate Cicillo
The Treasure of San Gennaro
as Don Vincenzo
Totò d'Arabia
as Totò
The Mandrake
as il frate
Rita the American Girl
as Serafino Benvenuti
Latin Lovers
as Rag. Antonio Gargiulo (ep. Amore e morte)
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
as Totò Baby / il Padre
Beautiful Families
as Filiberto Comanducci
Gli onorevoli
as Antonio La Trippa
Totò vs the Four
as commissario Antonio Saracino
The Monk of Monza
as Pasquale Cicciacalda / Don Manuel
Toto and Cleopatra
as Marc'Antonio / Totonno
The Commandant
as Col. Antonio Cavalli
Le motorizzate
as Urbano Cacace (segment "Il Vigile Ignoto")
Two Colonels
as Colonnello Di Maggio
The Shortest Day
as frate bersagliere
Totò sexy
as Nini Cantachiaro
Toto at Night
as Nini
Lo smemorato di Collegno
as lo smemorato
Totò diabolicus
as Galeazzo / Carlo / Scipione / Antonio / Laudomia / Pasquale
Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
as Antonio La Puzza / Amministratore di Canarinis
Totò versus Maciste
as Totokamen
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
as Dott. Biagio Tanzarella
Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
as Antonio Barbacane
The Two Marshals
as Antonio Capurro, Idea
Totòtruffa '62
as Antonio LoRuffo
He Who Hesitates Is Lost
as Antonio Guardalavecchia
Letto a tre piazze
as Antonio Di Cosimo
Gentlemen Are Born
as Ottone Degli Ulivi, detto Zazà
The Passionate Thief
as Umberto 'Infortunio' Pennazzuto
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
as Cavalier Antonio Cocozza
Noi duri
as L'Algerino
You're on Your Own
as Il nonno illuminato
Toto in Madrid
as Totò Scorceletti
The Overtaxed
as Torquato Pezzella
The Thieves
as Commissario Di Savio
La cambiale
as Cesare Posalaquaglia
Big Deal on Madonna Street
as Dante Cruciani
Toto in Paris
as Marchese Gastone de Chemantel / Chateau-Boiron / il vagabondo Totò
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
as Antonio Vignarello
Toto and Marcellino
as Il Professore
Totò in the Moon
as Pasquale Belafronte
The Law Is the Law
as Giuseppe La Paglia
Legs of Gold
as Barone Luigi Fontana
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
as Michele Spillone detto Mike
Totò Double or Nothing?
as Duca Gagliardo della Forcoletta
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
as Antonio Caponi
The Band of Honest Men
as Antonio Buonocore
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
as Antonio
Toto and Carolina
as Antonio Caccavallo
Il coraggio
as Gennaro Vaccariello, Screenplay
Totò all'inferno
as Antonio Marchi, Screenplay, Story
Destinazione Piovarolo
as Antonio La Quaglia
Are We Men or Corporals?
as Totò Esposito, Story, Screenplay
Roman Tales
as Professor Semprini
Totò Seeks Peace
as Gennaro Piselli
Il medico dei pazzi
as Felice Sciosciammocca, Screenplay
The Three Thieves
as Tapioca
Of Life and Love
as Rosario Chiarchiaro
The Gold of Naples
as Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")
Where Is Freedom?
as Salvatore Lojacono
Poverty and Nobility
as Don Felice Sciosciammocca
The Anatomy of Love
as Dionillo
Funniest Show on Earth
as Tottons
Neapolitan Turk
as Felice Sciosciammocca
Man, Beast and Virtue
as Prof. Paolino
Una di quelle
as Rocco Bardelli
Totó in color
as Antonio Scannagatti, Story
Toto and the Women
as Antonio Scaparro
Toto and the Kings of Rome
as Ercole Pappalardo
Cops and Robbers
as Ferdinando Esposito
Toto the Third Man
as Piero / Paolo / Totò
Seven Hours of Troubles
as Totò De Pasquale
Side Street Story
as Pasquale Miele
Toto the Sheik
as Antonio Sapone
Le sei mogli di Barbablù
as Totò Esposito
Tototarzan
as Antonio Della Buffas
47 Talking Corpses
as Il barone Antonio Peletti
Figaro qua... Figaro là
as Figaro
Totò Looking for a House
as Beniamino Lomacchio
The Emperor of Capri
as Antonio De Fazio
Totò le Mokò
as Antonio Lumaconi / Totò le Moko
Fifa e arena
as Nicolino Capece
Toto Tours Italy
as Prof. Totò Casamandrei
Two Little Orphans
as Gasparre
Slave Girl
as Gobbone il cammello (narratore)
The Rape of the Sabine
as Aristide Tromboni
L'allegro fantasma
as Nicolino & Gelsomino & Antonino
San Giovanni decollato
as Mastro Agostino Miciacio
Animal Crackers
as Barone Tolomeo dei Tolomei
Hands Off Me!
as Conte Toto di Torretota