Maurizio Merli (8 February 1940 in Rome – 10 March 1989) was an Italian film actor.Merli got his first starring 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 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 tennis match.
Like many Italian actors at the time, he was dubbed in his earlier films (most often by Pino Locchi) because his real voice was considered "too ordinary" for the larger than life heroes he played. However, from 1977 on he acted with his own voice.
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