{{Short description|Italian actor (1933–1979)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox person | image = Maurizio_Arena.jpg | name = Maurizio Arena | birth_name = Maurizio Di Lorenzo | birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|12|26|df=yes}} | birth_place = Rome, Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|1979|11|21|1933|12|26|df=yes}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1952–1978 }}
'''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''.<ref name=bio2>{{cite book|last=Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=8884402131}}</ref> His breakout role came in 1956 with the role of Romolo in the successful Dino Risi's romance-comedy film ''Poor, But Handsome''.<ref name="bio2"/> 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.<ref name="bio2"/>
In later years his celebrity declined, and Arena found roles as a character actor in smaller films, and occasionally worked as a singer.<ref name="bio2"/> He became an alternative medicine healer with some local following.<ref name="bio2"/>
He died at age 45 following a heart attack, a complication from a long-standing renal condition.<ref>{{cite news|last=Luciano Curino|title=Addio, superfusto degli Anni Cinquanta|newspaper=La Stampa|date=23 November 1979|page=18}}</ref>
In 2008 a park was named after him in his native district Garbatella.<ref>{{cite news|last=Cecilia Cirenei|title=Nel compleanno alla Garbatella un parco per Maurizio Arena|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2008/02/14/nel-compleanno-alla-garbatella-un-parco-per.rm_027nel.html|accessdate=18 March 2014|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=14 February 2008|page=17}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== {{div col|colwidth=22em}} * ''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 {{div col end}}
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