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Totò

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

February 13, 1898 (127 years old)

Place of Birth

Naples, Campania, Italy

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 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
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Big Deal on Madonna Street

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The Hawks and the Sparrows

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Side Street Story

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You're on Your Own

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Fifa e arena

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He Who Hesitates Is Lost

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Toto and Carolina

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Totó in color

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Totò d'Arabia

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Toto the Sheik

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Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare

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Cops and Robbers

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Toto in Madrid

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Letto a tre piazze

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Toto in Paris

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I due orfanelli

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Le sei mogli di Barbablù

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Gli onorevoli

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Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche

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Totò Double or Nothing?

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Totò vs the Four

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Yvonne of the Night

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Signori si nasce

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Toto Tours Italy

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Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

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Toto and the Women

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What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?

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Il coraggio

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Totò cerca casa

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Totò cerca pace

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Totò contro il pirata nero

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Toto and the Kings of Rome

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Toto and Marcellino

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The Monk of Monza

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Toto and Cleopatra

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The Overtaxed

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Toto at Night

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Totò nella Luna

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Il medico dei pazzi

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The Passionate Thief

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L'allegro fantasma

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I tre ladri

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Totò all'inferno

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Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life

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Caprice Italian Style

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The Rape of the Sabine

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Of Life and Love

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The Mandrake

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The Emperor of Capri

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The Commandant

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Totò le Mokò

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Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy

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San Giovanni decollato

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The Band of Honest Men

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Hands Off Me!

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The Gold of Naples

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Toto the Third Man

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Tototarzan

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Le motorizzate

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Lo smemorato di Collegno

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Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today

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Animal Crackers

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Noi duri

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Funniest Show on Earth

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Where Is Freedom?

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The Thieves

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The Law Is the Law

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The Firemen of Viggiù

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Totò diabolicus

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47 Talking Corpses

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La cambiale

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Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino

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The Two Marshals

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Totòtruffa '62

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Neapolitan Turk

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Poverty and Nobility

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Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge

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Totò contro Maciste

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The Treasure of San Gennaro

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Two Colonels

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Destinazione Piovarolo

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The Shortest Day

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Figaro qua... Figaro là

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Totò nella fossa dei leoni

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Totò Sexy

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Totò Story

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Totò cerca moglie

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Sette ore di guai

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Legs of Gold

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Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca

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Risate all'italiana

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Beautiful Families

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Rita the American Girl

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Man, Beast and Virtue

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The Witches

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Totò e il Principe De Curtis. L'uomo oltre la maschera

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Una di quelle

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Il latitante

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Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare

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Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino

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Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak

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Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye

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Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli

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Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel

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Tutto Totò - La scommessa

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Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro

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Latin Lovers

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Variety carousel

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Slave Girl

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Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?

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How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio

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Naples '44

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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

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We Are Cinema

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The Earth As Seen from the Moon

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What Are the Clouds?

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Are We Men or Corporals?

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Roman Tales

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Antologia di Totò

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The Anatomy of Love

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Cinépanorama

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