Totò
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 W...
Known For
Top 40 Movies
The Law Is the Law
1958
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
1975
47 Talking Corpses
1950
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
Toto in Madrid
1959
What Are the Clouds?
1968
Le sei mogli di Barbablù
1950
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
1957
The Gold of Naples
1954
Two Colonels
1963
The Rape of the Sabine
1945
La cambiale
1959
Il medico dei pazzi
1954
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
1964
Rita the American Girl
1965
Man, Beast and Virtue
1953
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
1967
We Are Cinema
2021
Fifa e arena
1948
Totò nella fossa dei leoni
1943
Funniest Show on Earth
1953
Totò sexy
1963
The Emperor of Capri
1949
The Shortest Day
1963
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
Totó in color
1952
Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
1961
Of Life and Love
1954
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
1961
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
1956
The Treasure of San Gennaro
1966
Are We Men or Corporals?
1955
Signori si nasce
1960
Roman Tales
1955
Totòtruffa '62
1961
The Overtaxed
1959
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
1958
The Hawks and the Sparrows
1966
Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel
1967