Bull Montana
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Lewis Montagna (born Luigi Montagna, May 16, 1887 – January 24, 1950), better known as Bull Montana, was an Italian-American professional wrestler and actor.
Montagna was born on May 16, 1887 in Voghera, Italy and came to the United States as a child.
He became a professional wrestler under the name of Bull Montana. He gravitated to films in 1917, appearing first in several of the vehicles of his close pal Douglas Fairbanks. In 1919 he appeared as a gruesome villain in Maurice Tourneur's masterpiece Victory alongside Lon Chaney. Numbered among his many friends was Abe "The Newsboy" Hollandersky, boxer, wrestler, and movie extra, who claimed Montagna offered to help him finance his 1930 autobiography.
In the early 1920s Montana, as he was known, often wrestled with his friend Jack Dempsey prior to some of Dempsey's larger fights to help entertain the press and spectators.
Montagna was usually cast as a thug, henchman or something not quite sympathetic, and sometimes not quite human (he was the apelike cave dweller in 1925's The Lost World opposite Wallace Beery as Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger). Tempering his on-screen brutishness with humor, Montana starred in his own series of two-reel comedies in the early 1920s, spoofing everyone from Robin Hood (Rob 'Em Good) to the Corsican Brothers (The Two Twins). He appeared in two Buster Keaton films including a role as a professional wrestler in the film Palooka from Paducah. He continued playing movie bits into the 1940s, notably as one of Buster Crabbe's antagonists in the 1936 series Flash Gordon. Like many mashed-face musclemen of the movies, Bull Montana is reputed to have been as gentle as a lamb in real life.
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Filme (60)
Venere Paura
1990 · Original Music Composer
Spaceship to the Unknown
1966 · Monkey-Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
Big City
1937 · Bull Montana
Flash Gordon
1936 · Monkey Man
Never Too Late
1935 · Monte, an escaped convict
Palooka from Paducah
1935 · Bullfrog Kraus
Tiger Rose
1929 · Joe
Glorifying the American Girl
1929 · Customer Requesting "Baby Face" (uncredited)
Loud Soup
1929 · Convict
How to Handle Women
1928 · The Turk
The Fight Pest
1928
Good Morning, Judge
1928 · First Crook
Limousine Love
1928 · The Chauffer
The Sting of Stings
1927 · Bull Montana
Many Scrappy Returns
1927 · Zozo's Husband
On the Front Page
1926 · Private Secretary
The Son of the Sheik
1926 · Mountebank
The Skyrocket
1926 · Film Comedian
Vanishing Millions
1926 · The Gorilla
The Uneasy Three
1925
The Bashful Buccaneer
1925 · Second Mate
No Father to Guide Him
1925 · Wanted Kidnapper in Photo (uncredited)
The Lost World
1925 · Ape Man
Dick Turpin
1925 · Bully Boy
Laughing at Danger
1924 · Killer Murphy
Hello, 'Frisco
1924 · Bull Montana
The Fire Patrol
1924 · Fireman
Painted People
1924 · Ed Decker
Held to Answer
1923 · 'Red' Lizard
Jealous Husbands
1923 · Portland Kid
Breaking Into Society
1923 · Tim O'Toole
Hollywood
1923 · Bull Montana
The Three Must-Get-Theres
1922 · Li'l Cardinal Richie-Loo
The Timber Queen
1922
Gay and Devilish
1922 · Tony
The Foolish Age
1921 · Bubbs
Crazy to Marry
1921 · Dago Red (a crook)
One Wild Week
1921 · Red Mike
Hard Luck
1921 · Virginia's Husband
Hearts Are Trumps
1920 · Jake
Go and Get It
1920 · The Gorilla
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
1920
What Women Love
1920 · Jose
Treasure Island
1920 · Morgan
When the Clouds Roll By
1919 · The Nightmare
Victory
1919 · Pedro
His Majesty, the American
1919 · Undetermined Role
Easy to Make Money
1919 · Charles 'Kid' Miller
Cowardice Court
1919 · Flash Morton
Brass Buttons
1919 · Jake the Priest
The Unpardonable Sin
1919 · The Brute
In for Thirty Days
1919 · 'Hot Stove' Kelly
Fair Enough
1918 · 'Happy' Flanigan
Johanna Enlists
1918 · Brakeman (uncredited)
He Comes Up Smiling
1918 · Baron Bean
The Border Legion
1918 · Red Pierce
Snap Judgment
1917 · Bull Montana
Down to Earth
1917 · Wild Man
Wild and Woolly
1917 · Bartender (Uncredited)
In Again, Out Again
1917 · Quenton Auburn - The Burglar
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