{{Short description|Italian actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Enzo Maggio | image = Enzo Maggio - Piedone lo sbirro.png | imagesize = | caption = Enzo Maggio in ''Flatfoot'' (1973) | birth_name = Vincenzo Maggio | birth_date = {{birth date|1902|10|10|df=yes}} | birth_place = Naples, Kingdom of Italy | death_date = {{death date and age |1978|7|13|1902|10|10|df=yes}} | death_place = Naples, Italy | occupation = Actor | years_active = | spouse = }}
'''Enzo Maggio''' (10 October 1902 – 13 July 1978) was an Italian actor. He was the oldest of the Maggio siblings.
Born '''Vincenzo Maggio''' in Naples into a family of actors, Maggio made a long apprenticeship in the avanspettacolo theaters before and during the Second World War.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|author1=Enrico Lancia |author2=Roberto Poppi |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli artisti. Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri.|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=8884402697}}</ref> On stage, he was specialized in macchiette and in the impersonation of the comedian Larry Semon (known in Italy as Ridolini).<ref name=curcio>Antonio Virgilio Savona; Michele Lo Straniero. "Maggio, Famiglia". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. pp. 959-960.</ref> After the war, he decided to devote himself to cinema and had a very prolific career even if often cast in character roles.<ref name=bio/><ref>{{cite book|author1=Massimo Giraldi |author2=Enrico Lancia |author3=Fabio Melelli |title=100 caratteristi del cinema italiano|year=2006 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2006|isbn=8884403839}}</ref>
Maggio often worked on stage with his brothers and sisters Dante, Beniamino, Pupella and Rosalia.<ref name=bio/>
==Partial filmography== {{Div col}} * ''A Dog's Life'' (1950) - Gigetto * ''È arrivato il cavaliere'' (1950) - Guardia personale del ministro * ''Milano miliardaria'' (1951) - Il parruchiere tifoso * ''Viva il cinema!'' (1952) * ''The White Sheik'' (1952) - Furio * ''La nemica'' (1952) * ''Rimorso'' (1952) * ''Siamo tutti inquilini'' (1953) - Prestanome * ''Riscatto'' (1953) * ''A Husband for Anna'' (1953) - Il fotografo * ''The Walk'' (1953) * ''If You Won a Hundred Million'' (1953) - Beniamino (segment "Il tifoso") * ''Lasciateci in pace'' (1953) * ''Cose da pazzi'' (1954) - Gnauli's assistant * ''Ulysses'' (1954) - (uncredited) * ''Prima di sera'' (1954) - Fantali - the tailor * ''Tripoli, Beautiful Land of Love'' (1954) - Un attore del Caffé-Concerto * ''Peppino e la vecchia signora'' (1954) * ''Napoli piange e ride'' (1954) - Fisarmonica player * ''Il cantante misterioso'' (1955) - Gino * ''Graziella'' (1955) - Servitore del console (uncredited) * ''I giorni più belli'' (1956) - Il tizio * ''Due sosia in allegria'' (1956) * ''I vagabondi delle stelle'' (1956) * ''Cantando sotto le stelle'' (1956) - Cameriere di trattoria * ''The Pirate and the Slave Girl'' (1959) - Candela * ''Ferdinando I, re di Napoli'' (1959) - The Escort of Pat and Cordelia * ''My Friend, Dr. Jekyll'' (1960) - Cameriere del night club * ''Caccia al marito'' (1960) - Salvatore Gargiulo - the hotel valet (uncredited) * ''Adua and Her Friends'' (1960) - Calypso - Stefano's colleague * ''Ghosts of Rome'' (1961) - Fricandò * ''The Joy of Living'' (1961) - Prisoner #888 * ''Black City'' (1961) - Il ministro Crescenzo * ''Accroche-toi, y'a du vent!'' (1961) * ''Zorro and the Three Musketeers'' (1963) * ''Revenge of the Musketeers'' (1963) * ''Hercules and the Black Pirates'' (1964) * ''3 Avengers'' (1964) - Manina * ''Bullets and the Flesh'' (1964) - Cliente Bar * ''Super Seven Calling Cairo'' (1965) * ''Johnny Colt'' (1966) * ''The Three Fantastic Supermen'' (1967) - La Squadra Acrobatica Italiana * ''Io non protesto, io amo'' (1967) - Felice * ''Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold'' (1967) * ''Nel sole'' (1967) - School attendant * ''I due vigili'' (1967) - Remo Cesaroni * ''I 2 deputati'' (1968) * ''Ombre roventi'' (1970) * ''Brother Outlaw'' (1971) * ''Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...'' (1971) - Agente Lo Cascio * ''Er Più – storia d'amore e di coltello'' (1971) - Old Garibaldian * ''When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong'' (1971) * ''Pistol Packin' Preacher'' (1971) - Doctor * ''Trinity and Sartana Are Coming'' (1972) - Jeremiah (uncredited) * ''Gli altri racconti di Canterbury'' (1972) - Beppe (segment 'Il pescatore') * ''Flatfoot'' (1973) - Gennarino * ''Seven Nuns in Kansas City'' (1973) - Gin * ''Flatfoot in Hong Kong'' (1975) - Gennarino (final film role) {{div col end}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Maggio, Enzo}} Category:1902 births Category:1978 deaths Category:Italian male film actors Category:Male actors from Naples Category:Italian male stage actors Category:20th-century Italian male actors