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KIRK MORRIS, is an Italian former bodybuilder and actor.
Born in Venice as Adriano Bellini, while at university Morris devoted himself to bodybuilding and thanks to his physique he was chosen by the director Tanio Boccia to play the title role in The Triumph of Maciste.
He subsequently starred in several other peplum films, including The Witch's Curse by Riccardo Freda.
One of the many muscle men of peplum who dominated Italian sword-and-sandal epics in the early 60s, Italian Kirk Morris (born Adriano Bellini) was born in the late 1946 and plucked from the canals of Venice for his go at moviedom.
A gondolier when disc
KIRK MORRIS, is an Italian former bodybuilder and actor.
Born in Venice as Adriano Bellini, while at university Morris devoted himself to bodybuilding and thanks to his physique he was chosen by the director Tanio Boccia to play the title role in The Triumph of Maciste.
He subsequently starred in several other peplum films, including The Witch's Curse by Riccardo Freda.
One of the many muscle men of peplum who dominated Italian sword-and-sandal epics in the early 60s, Italian Kirk Morris (born Adriano Bellini) was born in the late 1946 and plucked from the canals of Venice for his go at moviedom.
A gondolier when discovered by an Italian movie producer, he was deemed a perfect speciman to showcase their spectacles and a fitting hero to help offset the silly special effects and ridiculously dubbed dialogue.
If one must try to distinguish Kirk from the rest of the mythical bodybuilders (Steve Reeves, Alan Steel, Richard Harrison, Dan Vadis, Reg Park, Brad Harris, et al.), he often dyed his pompadour-styled hair blond and he had a slight, sulky resemblance to Elvis Presley.
Other than that his stoic posings of Hercules, Samson, Maciste and the others were no better or worse. Once the genre had lost its audience in the mid-60s, Kirk maintained for a few more years in war stories and westerns, but eventually migrated to the United States where he went into the advertising field.
Years later he returned to Italy and the movies -- this time as a producer.
After the decline of the genre, he appeared in several adventure films, then he retired in the early 1970s.
He was also an actor of fotoromanzi.
Filmography
1971 Sapevano solo uccidere ... Jeff
1970 Overrun! ... Liam McGregor
1969 Sette baschi rossi ... Sergeant
1967 Rita nel West ... Ringo
1966 2+5: Missione Hydra ... Belsy
1965 La magnifica sfida ... Kadir
1965 Maciste il vendicatore dei Mayas ... Hercules
1965 Il conquistatore di Atlantide/Conqueror of Atlantis ... Hercules
1964 La valle dell'eco tonante (aka Hercules of the Desert) ... Maciste
1964 Desert Raiders ... Nadir
1964 Anthar l'invincibile/Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules ... Anthar
1964 Maciste alla corte dello zar/Atlas Against the Czar ... Maciste
1964 Terror of the Steppes ... Sandar
1963 Ercole sfida Sansone/Hercules, Samson and Ulysses ... Hercules
1963 Sansone contro i pirati ... Samson
1963 Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste/Colossus and the Headhunters ... Maciste
1962 Le chevalier de Pardaillan ... Samson
1962 Maciste all'inferno/The Witch's Curse ... Maciste
1961 Maciste contro Ercole nella valle dei guai/Hercules in the Valley of Woe ... Maciste
1961 Trionfo di Maciste ... Maciste
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