Maurice Poli
Maurice Poli was a French actor, mainly active in Italian productions. He is regarded as one of the few actors to have taken part in virtually all the genres developed in Italy in over more than thirty years.
Biography
Born in Bizerte, Tunisia, Poli made his film debut in 1961, in a very small role in Mauro Bolognini's The Lovemakers and as a French Resistance fighter in The Longest Day. He later alternated leading roles and supporting roles, being often cast as a tough guy or a villain.
He was also a TV star, taking a successful supporting role on Belle and Sebastian and the lead role on the short-lived spy series Frédéric le Gardian.
Following a fashion of the time for American-sounding stage names, in the second half of the 1960s he was credited Monty Greenwood in several Spaghetti Westerns.
After retiring, he took up residence in Rome, Italy and devoted himself to his lifelong hobbies of geology and archaeology.
Selected filmography
The Lovemakers - The Longest Day - Jean The Avenger - Mezensio, Turno's HenchmanSandokan the Great - GirobatolThe Glass Cage - AntoineSeven Golden Men - AlfredSeven Golden Men Strike Again - AlfredTom Dollar - Tom DollarTwo Faces of the Dollar - Miele / Honey / DjangoShark! - MarioThe Battle of the Damned - Corporal MarwellGangster's Law - Rino QuinteroFive Dolls for an August Moon - Nick ChaneyShango - MartinezThe Last Traitor - TimBaron Blood - Land Surveyor Le mille e una notte all'italiana Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? - Sheriff KeensburgLo chiamavano Tresette... giocava sempre col morto White Fang - MountieLady Dynamite Rabid Dogs - DottoreLegend of the Sea Wolf Mimì Bluette... fiore del mio giardino Return of the 38 Gang - MauricePapaya, Love Goddess of the Cannibals - VincentCindy's Love Games - StefanLa cameriera seduce i villeggianti - Il marsiglieseMalombra - Osvaldo RainingerIl peccato di Lola - Necklace buyerMaladonna - Osvaldo RainingerRoma. L'antica chiave dei sensi - PtolomeusThe Assisi Underground - VitoIl piacere - Boris the stableman Mai con le donne Mercenari dell'apocalisse - The ReverentPenombra - Osvaldo RainingerCobra nero - Chief Max WalkerUrban Warriors - StanTouch of Death - TV Newscaster #1 Non aver paura della zia Marta - Thomas the caretakerFuoco incrociato - General RomeroMiami Cops La vendetta - Milo La storia di Lady Chatterley Massacre - FrankObsession - una storia di straordinaria follia Casa di piacere - Antique DealerLa mia preda Hansel e Gretel - Commissioner RoyDetective Malone - Chief Max WalkerSul filo del rasoio - Real-estate agent Return from Death (Frankenstein 2000) - HoffnerRose rosse per una squillo Le occasioni di una signora per bene Delitti a luce rossa - CarloCrazy Blood - PietroCruel - Gabriel Tardieu