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 Poveri ma belli. 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)
Totò 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
Poveri ma belli (1957) - Romolo Toccacieli
The Black Devil (1957) - Ruggero
The Man Who Wagged His Tail (1957) - Alfonso
Belle ma povere (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
Poveri milionari (1959) - Romolo
Noi siamo due evasi (1959) - Brigadiere Francesco Curti
The Defeated Victor (1959) - Romolo De Santis
La duchessa di Santa Lucia (1959) - Carlo
Il magistrato (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
References
External links
1933 births
1979 deaths
Italian male film actors
Male actors from Rome
20th-century Italian male actors
Deaths from kidney disease