Emerging from Rome, Luciano Catenacci first learned the ropes of cinema as a production manager before directors such as Mario Bava persuaded him to try acting. Early on he adopted the stage names Luciano Lorcas and Max Lawrence, but by the early 1970s he had settled on his birth name for screen credits. Throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s he became a familiar face in Italian genre pictures, frequen…
