# Maurizio Arena

Maurizio Arena (26 December 1933 – 21 November 1979) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1952 and 1978.

## Life and career

Born in Rome as Maurizio Di Lorenzo, Arena made his film debut at nineteen years old, with a small role in Bellezze in moto-scooter. His breakout role came in 1956 with the role of Romolo in the successful Dino Risi's romance-comedy film Poor, But Handsome. Until the early 1960s Arena was one of the most popular actors in the Italian cinema, and was a regular feature of gossip columns for his tumultuous personal life.
In later years his celebrity declined, and Arena found roles as a character actor in smaller films, and occasionally worked as a singer. He became an alternative medicine healer with some local following.
He died at age 45 following a heart attack, a complication from a long-standing renal condition.
In 2008 a park was named after him in his native district Garbatella.

## Selected filmography

* La figlia del diavolo (1952) - Corrado
* Beauties on Motor Scooters (1952)
* Siamo tutti inquilini (1953) - Carlo
* Roman Holiday (1953) - Young Boy with Car (uncredited)
* La lupa (1953)
* It Happened in the Park (1953) - Il fidanzato di Virginia (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
* Tormento d'anim (1953)
* A Day in Court (1954) - Lorenzo (uncredited)
* Tripoli, Beautiful Land of Love (1954) - Feruccio
* Peppino e la vecchia signora (1954)
* Toto and Carolina (1955) - Mario, il ladro
* The Sign of Venus (1955) - Maurice
* Roman Tales (1955) - Mario
* Processo all'amore (1955)
* La porta dei sogni (1955) - Silvio
* Accadde di notte (1956)
* Tempo di villeggiatura (1956) - Checco
* Un giglio infranto (1956) - Ferdinando
* Sangue di zingara (1956) - Tore
* Poor, But Handsome (1957) - Romolo Toccacieli
* The Black Devil (1957) - Ruggero
* The Man Who Wagged His Tail (1957) - Alfonso
* Pretty But Poor (1957) - Romolo Toccacieli
* Vacanze a Ischia (1957) - Franco
* Buongiorno primo amore! (1957) - Giancarlo
* Il cocco di mamma (1958) - Aldo Manca
* Napoli, sole mio! (1958) - Michele Brunati
* The Italians They Are Crazy (1958) - Benedetti
* Valeria ragazza poco seria (1958) - Mario Renzetti
* Love and Troubles (1958) - Roberto
* Via col para... vento (1958) - Alberto Pompei
* Caporale di giornata (1958) - Felice Fornari
* Marinai, donne e guai (1958) - Mario Santarelli
* Avventura a Capri (1959) - Mario
* Poor Millionaires (1959) - Romolo
* Noi siamo due evasi (1959) - Brigadiere Francesco Curti
* The Defeated Victor (1959) - Romolo De Santis
* La duchessa di Santa Lucia (1959) - Carlo
* The Magistrate (1959) - Orlando Di Giovanni
* Terror of Oklahoma (1959) - Clay Norton
* Simpatico mascalzone (1959) - Mario
* Policarpo (1959) - il fattorino dei fiori
* Il principe fusto (1960) - Ettore
* Il carabiniere a cavallo (1961) - Renato Gorini
* You Must Be Blonde on Capri (1961) - Roberto Calli
* Maurizio, Peppino e le indossatrici (1961) - Maurizio Innocenzi
* Fra' Manisco cerca guai (1961) - Giulio
* Pugni, pupe e marinai (1961) - Alberto Mariani
* The Legion's Last Patrol (1962) - Dolce Vita
* Il giorno più corto (1962)
* I soliti rapinatori a Milano (1963) - Aldo
* Via Veneto (1964)
* La fuga (1965) - Alberto Spina
* Le bambole (1965) - Massimo (segment "Il Trattato di Eugenetica")
* The Peking Medallion (1967) - Danny
* Gli altri, gli altri... e noi (1967) - Antonio
* They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968) - Clark
* Agnaldo, Perigo à Vista (1969)
* Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? (1971) - Giuseppe
* Er Più – storia d'amore e di coltello (1971) - Bartolo Di Lorenzo
* Storia di fifa e di coltello - Er seguito d'er più (1972) - Bartolo Di Lorenzo
* Anche se volessi lavorare, che faccio? (1972) - Garrone
* Storia de fratelli e de cortelli (1973) - Nino
* The Assassination of Matteotti (1973) - Communist Activist
* Società a responsabilità molto limitata (1973) - Gateano Stipoli
* The Godson of the Godfather (1973) - Don Vincenzo
* The Balloon Vendor (1974) - Romolo
* To Love Ophelia (1974) - Spartaco Cesaroni
* Loaded Guns (1975) - Padre Best
* Hallucination Strip (1975) - Buscemi, Il Siciliano
* Il sogno di Zorro (1975) - Friar Miguel
* Remo e Romolo (Storia di due figli di una lupa) (1976) - Marte
* The Career of a Chambermaid (1976) - Luciani
* Vai col liscio (1976) - Aldemiro
* Atti impuri all'italiana (1976) - Gedeone - the Mayor
* The Mistress Is Served (1976) - Domenico Cardona
* Puttana galera! (1976) - Marpione
* La Bidonata (1977) - Maurizio
* Pugni, dollari e spinaci (1978) - Sammy Mania