Totò
Acting
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…
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Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958
Dante Cruciani
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
1956
Antonio Caponi
The Hawks and the Sparrows
1966
Totò Innocenti / Frate Cicillo
Poverty and Nobility
1954
Don Felice Sciosciammocca
The Band of Honest Men
1956
Antonio Buonocore
The Treasure of San Gennaro
1966
Don Vincenzo
Cops and Robbers
1951
Ferdinando Esposito
The Gold of Naples
1954
Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")
Totòtruffa '62
1961
Antonio LoRuffo
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
1956
Antonio
The Overtaxed
1959
Torquato Pezzella
Neapolitan Turk
1953
Felice Sciosciammocca
Signori si nasce
1960
Ottone Degli Ulivi, detto Zazà
Totó in color
1952
Antonio Scannagatti
Totò diabolicus
1962
Galeazzo / Carlo / Scipione / Antonio / Laudomia / Pasquale
Totò Double or Nothing?
1956
Duca Gagliardo della Forcoletta
Totò le Mokò
1949
Antonio Lumaconi / Totò le Moko
Two Colonels
1963
Colonnello Di Maggio
Totò Looking for a House
1949
Beniamino Lomacchio
47 Talking Corpses
1950
Il barone Antonio Peletti