Totò
Birthday: 1898-02-14
Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy
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.
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Big Deal on Madonna Street
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that ...
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The Hawks and the Sparrows
A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and...
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Side Street Story
A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary p...
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You're on Your Own
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Fifa e arena
In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerou...
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He Who Hesitates Is Lost
After their boss' death, two clerks eagerly await the arrival of the next one, each one of them hopi...
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Toto and Carolina
During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get ...
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Totó in color
In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti wh...
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Totò d'Arabia
Toto, a former Italian military servant who works as a servant at the British Intelligence Service, ...
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Toto the Sheik
Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man ma...
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Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and su...
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Cops and Robbers
Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts perse...
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Toto in Madrid
When the swindler La Spada and his accomplice José come out of jail in Madrid, they decide to pull a...
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Letto a tre piazze
Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amali...
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Toto in Paris
Duclos's son, a worldly gangster, is compromised in a case of which he is innocent. The proof of thi...
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Two Little Orphans
In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find ou...
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Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidna...
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Gli onorevoli
Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign...
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Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignane...
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Totò Double or Nothing?
The penniless Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o raddoppia", a TV quiz show, in order to win f...
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Totò vs the Four
The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he...
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Yvonne of the Night
Carlo Rutelli falls in love with the beautiful variety singer Yvonne la Nuit, but his father opposes...
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Signori si nasce
Baron Zazà, always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his...
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Toto Tours Italy
A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestan...
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Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wif...
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Toto and the Women
Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the att...
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What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
A pair of brothers, Baby Toto and Pietro, sons of different mothers, live stealing suitcases at the ...
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Il coraggio
A wealthy trader saves the life of a poor suicidal man who then decides that his savior has the resp...
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Totò Looking for a House
Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they ...
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Totò Seeks Peace
Two widowers decide to get married but their decision is continually hampered by their grandchildren...
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Totò versus the Black Pirate
José is a Neapolitan petty thief who escapes from the guards and hides himself in a barrel of Jamaic...
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Toto and the Kings of Rome
An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination....
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Toto and Marcellino
Marcellino becomes an orphan and finds two uncles--a good old eccentric man and a villain....
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The Monk of Monza
Pasquale takes all of his 12 children and runs away from Monza, looking for a house of a wealthy and...
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Toto and Cleopatra
Mark Antony has a brother-lookalike, Totonno, a sinister slave trader. Totonno secretly replaces Mar...
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The Overtaxed
Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does n...
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Toto at Night
Nini and Mimi are strolling musicians-bassist. For days they are playing on the streets of Rome. One...
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Totò in the Moon
Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep...
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Il medico dei pazzi
Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will ...
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The Passionate Thief
On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his...
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L'allegro fantasma
The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in whi...
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The Three Thieves
Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarill...
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Totò all'inferno
After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and...
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Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
Antonio goes to Rome to represent his fellow peasants, to request a highway that will be built in th...
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Caprice Italian Style
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one...
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The Rape of the Sabine
Ernesto is the teacher of the village, he is married and he is dominated by his wife. He has the pas...
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Of Life and Love
A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young ...
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The Mandrake
A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiave...
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The Emperor of Capri
Beautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of...
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The Commandant
The retired general Antonio Cavalli is a nuisance to his family: to his wife Francesca who still wor...
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Totò le Mokò
Mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will...
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Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gian...
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San Giovanni decollato
Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to f...
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The Band of Honest Men
Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using t...
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Hands Off Me!
In his first feature, great Italian clown Totò plays a carefree tramp moving from job to job, in ord...
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The Gold of Naples
A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza selle...
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Toto the Third Man
In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and...
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Tototarzan
Roaming the vast jungles of Congo with his best friend, Bongo the gorilla, Antonio della Buffas, a m...
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Lo smemorato di Collegno
A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in th...
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Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeat...
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Animal Crackers
After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum....
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Funniest Show on Earth
A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his ...
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Where Is Freedom?
A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himse...
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The Thieves
An Italian-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his i...
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The Law Is the Law
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the...
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The Firemen of Viggiù
In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, invi...
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Totò diabolicus
The marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. ...
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47 Talking Corpses
Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full...
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La cambiale
The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as ...
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Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
Antonio goes to West Berlin and meets Giuseppe. But Antonio looks like Canarinis, a wanted war crimi...
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The Two Marshals
September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes...
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Totòtruffa '62
Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing sm...
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Neapolitan Turk
Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up a...
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Poverty and Nobility
Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him m...
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Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained...
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Totò versus Maciste
Totokamen is an entertainer and an illusionist who performs in various Egyptian nightclubs assisted ...
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The Treasure of San Gennaro
A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Gennaro, in Napoli....
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Two Colonels
In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship...
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Destinazione Piovarolo
Antonio La Quaglia becomes the railroader in Piovarolo during 1922 meanwhile the fascism is raising....
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The Shortest Day
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an impor...
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Figaro qua... Figaro là
In the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his sh...
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Totò nella fossa dei leoni
The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who ...
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Totò Sexy
Two strange street musicians end up in jail and exchange sexy stories to while away time....
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Totò Looking for Wife
Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married....
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Seven Hours of Troubles
Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes ...
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Legs of Gold
Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amate...
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Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
Anthological movie with some of the most famous movie sequences in Italian cinema produced by glorio...
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Laughs Italian Style
A sort of best of popular comedy skits from previous films by various directors....
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Beautiful Families
The film's theme is four episodes that offer the public a glimpse into the lives of rich and poor fa...
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Rita the American Girl
Professor Serafino Benvenuti is a master of classical music who has the passion of the orchestra dir...
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Man, Beast and Virtue
Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his frien...
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The Witches
Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels t...
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Una di quelle
Rocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search...
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Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino
Barnabas, said Don Giovannino, is a true lover of beautiful women. One day he chases a beautiful Ame...
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Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak
Toto participates in various samples in a study of cinema, first going in a studio where there's sho...
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Latin Lovers
The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s....
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Variety carousel
A painter gives his daughter a television set for her 18th birthday. On the evening of the party, th...
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Slave Girl
Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becomi...
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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
A British Intelligence Officer in Naples at the end of World War II: Norman Lewis's acknowledged mas...
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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...
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The Earth As Seen from the Moon
Ciancicato Miao and his son, after the death of his wife and mother by mushroom poisoning, are dedic...
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What Are the Clouds?
Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shak...
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Are We Men or Corporals?
These are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp, sufferi...
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Roman Tales
Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otel...
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The Anatomy of Love
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom....
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SuperTotò
After an introduction consisting of a series of close-ups of Totò, the anthology presents clips from...
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