Maurice Poli

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Maurice Poli (born December 2, 1933 in Bizerta , Tunisia ) is a French actor .

Life

Poli, a Frenchman born in Tunisia with “distinctive facial features, flashing eyes, black hair and a Mediterranean complexion”, is a typical representative of European, especially Italian, genre cinema: It began in the 1960s, at the end of the following decade the number of films decreased and he was hardly to be seen, to finally say goodbye to the screen after a further quantitative increase at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s.

His works were likewise settled in the each popular genres: Starting in sandals films about espionage strips and spaghetti westerns to erotic comedies and action bursters. He did not always play the main role (and if so, then rarely the only one). Poli began in a film by Mauro Bolognini , played the ancient hero Massenzio (in Aeneas ) and the adventurer Guillonk (after Emilio Salgari ). Under the pseudonym Monty Greenwood , he appeared in Stinking Dollars and Dead Rotten in the Sun and embodied the title character, Agent Tom Dollar (a "mixture of Bond and Inspector Clouseau"). He was also found on the other side of the law, be it in Shango's last fight or papaya - the cannibal goddess of love . In the 1980s, the budgets for films became even tighter and the roles smaller.

In a few films he also worked as an assistant director.

Films (selection)

  • 1961: The house in Via Roma (La viaccia)
  • 1962: Aeneas (La leggenda di Enea)
  • 1963: Sandokan (Sandokan, la tigre di Mompracem)
  • 1965: 7 golden men (Sette uomini d'oro)
  • 1966: The super thing of the 7 golden men (Il grande colpo dei sette uomini d'oro)
  • 1967: Tom Dollar
  • 1967: Stinking Dollars (Le due facce del dollaro)
  • 1968: Quintero - the ace of the underworld (La legge dei gangsters)
  • 1969: Tobrul death squad (Quella dannata pattuglia)
  • 1969: Dead rot in the sun (Un posto all'inferno)
  • 1970: Shango's last fight (Shango la pistola infallibile)
  • 1971: Il tredicesimo è semper Giudà
  • 1972: Providenza! - Mousetrap for two weird birds (La vita a volte è molto dura, vero Provvidenza?)
  • 1974: Wild Dogs (Cani arrabbiati)
  • 1975: The Descent into Hell (Il lupo dei mari)
  • 1978: Papaya - The cannibals goddess of love (Papaya dei Caraibi)
  • 1979: Angels are the most beautiful naked (Amanti miei)
  • 1986: Mercenari dell'apocalisse (Mercenari dell'apocalisse)
  • 1987: The Black Cobra (Black Cobra)
  • 1988: Combat Attack (Fuoco incrociato)
  • 1990. Detective Malone (Detectice Malone)
  • 1991: Frankenstein 2000 (Ritorno alla morte)
  • 1996: Intimate confession (Delitto a luce rossa)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli: Attori stranieri del nostro cinema, Gremese 2006, p. 146
  2. ^ Wesley Alan Britton: Onscreen and undercover, Greenwood 2006
personal data
SURNAME Poli, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greenwood, Monty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Bizerta , Tunisia