Maurice Fernand Poli (2 December 1933 – 26 April 2020)Maurice Poli was a French actor, mainly active in Italian productions. He is regarded as one of the few actors to have taken part in virtually all the genres developed in Italy in over more than thirty years.Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli. Dizionario del cinema italiano. Attori stranieri del nostro cinema. Gremese, 2006. .
Biography
Born in Bizerte, Tunisia, Poli made his film debut in 1961, in a very small role in Mauro Bolognini's The Lovemakers and as a French Resistance fighter in The Longest Day. He later alternated leading roles and supporting roles, being often cast as a tough guy or a villain.
He was also a TV star, taking a successful supporting role on Belle and Sebastian and the lead role on the short-lived spy series Frédéric le Gardian.
Following a fashion of the time for American-sounding stage names, in the second half of the 1960s he was credited Monty Greenwood in several Spaghetti Westerns.
After retiring, he took up residence in Rome, Italy and devoted himself to his lifelong hobbies of geology and archaeology.
Selected filmography
The Lovemakers (1961) - (uncredited) The Longest Day (1962) - Jean (uncredited) The Avenger (1962) - Mezensio, Turno's Henchman Sandokan the Great (1963) - Girobatol The Glass Cage (1965) - Antoine Seven Golden Men (1965) - Alfred Seven Golden Men Strike Again (1966) - Alfred Tom Dollar (1967) - Tom Dollar Two Faces of the Dollar (1967) - Miele / Honey / Django Shark! (1969) - Mario The Battle of the Damned (1969) - Corporal Marwell Gangster's Law (1969) - Rino Quintero Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970) - Nick Chaney Shango (1970) - Martinez The Last Traitor (1971) - Tim Baron Blood (1972) - Land Surveyor (uncredited) Le mille e una notte all'italiana (1972) Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? (1972) - Sheriff Keensburg Lo chiamavano Tresette... giocava sempre col morto (1973) White Fang (1973) - Mountie Lady Dynamite (1973) Rabid Dogs (1974) - Dottore Legend of the Sea Wolf (1975) Mimì Bluette... fiore del mio giardino (1976) Return of the 38 Gang (1977) - Maurice Papaya, Love Goddess of the Cannibals (1978) - Vincent Cindy's Love Games (1979) - Stefan La cameriera seduce i villeggianti (1980) - Il marsigliese Malombra (1984) - Osvaldo Raininger Il peccato di Lola (1984) - Necklace buyer Maladonna (1984) - Osvaldo Raininger Roma. L'antica chiave dei sensi (1984) - Ptolomeus The Assisi Underground (1985) - Vito Il piacere (1985) - Boris the stableman (uncredited) Mai con le donne (1985) Mercenari dell'apocalisse (1987) - The Reverent Penombra (1987) - Osvaldo Raininger Cobra nero (1987) - Chief Max Walker Urban Warriors (1987) - Stan Touch of Death (1988) - TV Newscaster #1 (uncredited) Non aver paura della zia Marta (1988) - Thomas the caretaker Fuoco incrociato (1988) - General Romero Miami Cops (1989) La vendetta (1989) - Milo (uncredited) La storia di Lady Chatterley (1989) Massacre (1989) - Frank Obsession - una storia di straordinaria follia (1989) Casa di piacere (1989) - Antique Dealer La mia preda (1990) Hansel e Gretel (1990) - Commissioner Roy Detective Malone (1991) - Chief Max Walker Sul filo del rasoio (1992) - Real-estate agent (uncredited) Return from Death (Frankenstein 2000) (1992) - Hoffner Rose rosse per una squillo (1993) Le occasioni di una signora per bene (1993) Delitti a luce rossa (1996) - Carlo Crazy Blood (2006) - Pietro Cruel (2014) - Gabriel Tardieu (final film role)
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