Maurice Poli Explained

Maurice Poli
Birth Date:1933 12, df=yes
Birth Place:Bizerte, Tunisia
Death Date:26 April 2020 (aged 86)
Death Place:Rome, Italy
Occupation:Actor

Maurice Poli (2 December 1933 – 26 April 2020)[1] 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.[2]

Biography

Born in Bizerte, Tunisia, Poli made his film debut in 1961, in a very small role in Mauro Bolognini's The Lovemakers[2] 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.[2]

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.[3]

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.[2] [4]

After retiring, he took up residence in Rome, Italy and devoted himself to his lifelong hobbies of geology and archaeology.[3]

Selected filmography

References

  1. https://deces.matchid.io/search?advanced=true&ln=Poli&fn=Maurice&bd=02%2F12%2F1933 Maurice Poli
  2. Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli. Dizionario del cinema italiano. Attori stranieri del nostro cinema. Gremese, 2006. .
  3. Book: Lucas, Tim . Tim Lucas

    . Tim Lucas. Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark . Video Watchdog . 2007 . 817 . 978-0-9633756-1-2.

  4. Book: Marco Giusti. Dizionario del western all'italiana. 2007 . Mondadori, 2007. 978-8804572770.

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