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.

Maurizio Arena
Born	Maurizio Di Lorenzo (1933-12-26)26 December 1933 Rome, Italy
Died	21 November 1979(1979-11-21) (aged 45) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1952–1978

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.^[1] His breakout role came in 1956 with the role of Romolo in the successful Dino Risi's romance-comedy film Poor, But Handsome.^[1] 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.^[1]

In later years his celebrity declined, and Arena found roles as a character actor in smaller films, and occasionally worked as a singer.^[1] He became an alternative medicine healer with some local following.^[1]

He died at age 45 following a heart attack, a complication from a long-standing renal condition.^[2]

In 2008 a park was named after him in his native district Garbatella.^[3]

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