Maurizio Merli
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. (source Wikipedia)
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 11.295 |
Birthday | 1940-02-08 |
Place of Birth | Rome, Lazio, Italy |
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1963
The Leopard
7.724/796
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes un...
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The Leopard
1981
Priest of Love
5/12
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Priest of Love
1977
A Man Called Blade
6.6/32
Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future. But when he disrupts the balance of power...
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A Man Called Blade
1976
Rome, Armed to the Teeth
6.7/62
A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
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Rome, Armed to the Teeth
1977
The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist
6.638/58
Luigi "Chinaman" Maietto escapes from prison. As soon as he is free he assigns immediately two henchman to murder the inspector whose testimonial once...
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The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist
1978
Magnum Cop
4.8/13
A low-rent private investigator and former cop is sent to Austria on a job, and while there sees a number of seemingly unrelated coincidences that lea...
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Magnum Cop
1976
Violent Naples
6.5/42
Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sulliv...
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Violent Naples
1977
Highway Racer
5.4/17
Maurizio Merli stars as a hot-shot police driver who has more guts than brains, often landing him in hot water with his middle-aged mentor, who was on...
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Highway Racer
1975
Violent Rome
6/29
A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the depa...
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Violent Rome
1979
From Corleone to Brooklyn
6.2/16
Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York Ci...
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From Corleone to Brooklyn
1976
Fear in the City
5.409/11
The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night p...
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Fear in the City
1978
Convoy Busters
5.7/15
In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector Olmi uses his brutal and violent methods to follow...
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Convoy Busters
1975
White Fang to the Rescue
5.579/19
Set at the end of the 19th century in Canada's gold rush Klondike area, wolf-dog White Fang teams up with a prospector when his master is killed. Toge...
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White Fang to the Rescue
1980
Vultures Over the City
5.4/5
Merli, teamed with Mexican star Hugo Stiglitz as his photographer buddy, plays a journalist investigating the shady activities of the local Mafia. Eve...
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Vultures Over the City
1976
A Special Cop in Action
6.3/24
A school bus with young children being kidnapped. Commissario Betti will solve the case. High action is promised, including hostage, bank robberies, c...
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A Special Cop in Action
1980
The Rebel
4.5/6
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The Rebel
1979
Hunted City
5.4/7
Commissario Paolo Ferro (Maurizio Merli) stars as a (typical) tough cop again. This time he returns to the city of Milan to go after a murder corporat...
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Hunted City
1978
The Iron Commissioner
5.7/10
Comissioneer Mariani leads investigates a group of kidnappers.
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The Iron Commissioner
1978
Seagulls Fly Low
5.3/3
An ex-Vietnam vet is forced to become a hit-man and gets caught in the middle of a conspiracy.
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Seagulls Fly Low
1983
Spy Connection
0/0
Musante plays a man blackmailed and forced to assassinate a highly guarded KGB official. Two British agents have kidnapped his daughter and want him t...
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Spy Connection
1987
Blue Tango
2/1
Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing photographer and a porter who works in a slaughterho...
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Blue Tango
1978
Covert Action
0/0
Janssen plays an ex-CIA agent who has become an author, writing both non-fiction exposes (Phillip Agee was in the news at this time) and fiction spy n...
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Covert Action
1974
Chains
7/2
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Chains
1967
Two R-R-Ringos from Texas
4.3/14
A western comedy starring the Sicilian comedians Franco and Ciccio who produced dozens of such spoofs in the 1960s. This time, they quote mainly "The...
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Two R-R-Ringos from Texas
1967
Massacre Mania
0/0
A high level criminal attempts to slave the world by thought control through TV.
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Massacre Mania
1968
Phenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankamen
3.8/5
A masked superhero searches for a magical golden relic while trying to prevent the plundering of an Egyptian tomb.
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Phenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankamen
1974
Philadelphia Story
0/0
Italian made-for-TV movie remake of the 1942 Philadelphia Story, also based on the 1939 play by Philip Barry.
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Philadelphia Story
1972
Sexy Sinners
4.4/4
During the early Italian Renaissance and the Black Death epidemic, a group of young men and women, seeking refuge in a secluded villa just outside the...
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Sexy Sinners
1969
Eros e Thanatos
5/3
Franco Adami injures a condescending prostitute to photograph her, but escaped from guilt, causing her death by bleeding.
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Eros e Thanatos
1972
Le mille e una notte all'italiana
1/1
Two young friends - one poet, the other a sculptor - have fun conquering the wives of others.
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Le mille e una notte all'italiana
2017
The Man in the Movie Camera
0/0
Marcello is a professional film restorer and an avid cinephile. While working on some of the most popular titles of Italian cinema, he comes across a...
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