Still of Franco Merli in Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974)
Caption: Still of Franco Merli in Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974)
Actor
Born: October 31, 1956
Star sign: Scorpio
Known for: Arabian Nights (1974), Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976), La collegiale (1975)
Source: IMDB
Franco Merli was born on October 31, 1956 in Rome, Italy. In 1973, famous Italian poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini discovered the youngster. The 16-year-old was working as a gas station attendant at that time (as Ninetto Davoli, a friend of Pasolini and actor in most of his films, recounts). Pasolini was searching for a young man to play the...