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person_profile-Bull Montana

Bull Montana Died at age: 62

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Bull Montana

Date of Birth:

May 15, 1887

Country of birth:

Italy

Died:

Jan 24, 1950

Biography of

Bull Montana

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    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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Bull Montana

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Filmography of

Bull Montana

Found 34 Movies in total

Spaceship to the Unknown

Monkey-Man (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1966

Big City

Bull Montana ( Actor )

... 1937

Never Too Late

Monte, an escaped convict ( Actor )

... 1935

Tiger Rose

Joe ( Actor )

... 1929

Glorifying the American Girl

Customer Requesting "Baby Face" (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1929

How to Handle Women

The Turk ( Actor )

... 1928

Good Morning, Judge

First Crook ( Actor )

... 1928

The Son of the Sheik

Mountebank ( Actor )

... 1926

The Skyrocket

Film Comedian ( Actor )

... 1926

The Lost World

Ape Man ( Actor )

... 1925

Dick Turpin

Bully Boy ( Actor )

... 1925

Laughing at Danger

Killer Murphy ( Actor )

... 1924

The Fire Patrol

Fireman ( Actor )

... 1924

Painted People

Ed Decker ( Actor )

... 1924

Held to Answer

'Red' Lizard ( Actor )

... 1923

Hollywood

Bull Montana ( Actor )

... 1923

The Three Must-Get-Theres

Li'l Cardinal Richie-Loo ( Actor )

... 1922

... 1922

Gay and Devilish

Tony ( Actor )

... 1922

The Foolish Age

Bubbs ( Actor )

... 1921

Crazy to Marry

Dago Red (a crook) ( Actor )

... 1921

Go and Get It

The Gorilla ( Actor )

... 1920

Treasure Island

Morgan ( Actor )

... 1920

When the Clouds Roll By

The Nightmare ( Actor )

... 1919

Victory

Pedro ( Actor )

... 1919

His Majesty, the American

Undetermined Role ( Actor )

... 1919

Cowardice Court

Flash Morton ( Actor )

... 1919

Brass Buttons

Jake the Priest ( Actor )

... 1919

The Unpardonable Sin

The Brute ( Actor )

... 1919

Johanna Enlists

Brakeman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1918

He Comes Up Smiling

Baron Bean ( Actor )

... 1918

The Border Legion

Red Pierce ( Actor )

... 1918

Down to Earth

Wild Man ( Actor )

... 1917

Wild and Woolly

Bartender (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1917