Maurizio Merli

Acting

Maurizio Merli

Born 1940-02-08 Rome, Lazio, Italy 31 films

Maurizio Merli (8 February 1940 in Rome – 10 March 1989) was an Italian film actor. Merli got his first lead role in 1974 in the film White Fang to the Rescue due to his resemblance to the highly popular cult actor Franco Nero, who played the lead role in the first two films. Merli later became one of the most prominent actors of the poliziotteschi genre by starring in almost a dozen films. He died in 1989 of myocardial infarction after a tennismatch. (sou…

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Filmography

31 films
Blue Tango poster

Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing p…

Blue Tango

★ 6.0 1987

Spy Connection poster

Musante plays a man blackmailed and forced to assassinate a highly guarded KGB official. Two Britis…

Spy Connection

★ 7.0 1983

Priest of Love poster

Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda,…

Priest of Love

★ 5.0 1981

The Rebel poster

"Poliziotti solitudine e rabbia" or "Ein Mann namens Venedig" (A Man called Venice), as it was call…

The Rebel

★ 4.8 1980

Hunted City poster

Commissario Paolo Ferro (Maurizio Merli) stars as a (typical) tough cop again. This time he returns…

Hunted City

★ 5.4 1979

Convoy Busters poster

In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector…

Convoy Busters

★ 5.5 1978

Covert Action poster

Janssen plays an ex-CIA agent who has become an author, writing both non-fiction exposes (Phillip A…

Covert Action

★ 7.0 1978