Toto was the stage name of Swiss-born clown Armando Novello (October 27, 1888 – December 15, 1938), who worked extensively in American vaudeville shows.

He toured the U.S. in 1911, and performed before the royal families of Germany and Russia before being stranded in Petrograd at the outbreak of the First World War.

He made his vaudeville debut in 1918 in San Francisco, and worked in silent movies under the direction of Hal Roach.

[2] He largely retired from the stage in the 1930s, after a final command performance before King George V and Queen Mary in 1931.

His lawyers began action against the newspaper, but Toto died a few weeks later in the Bronx Hospital in New York, at the age of 50.