Bull Montana

Known for ActingBorn 1887-05-15Died 1950-01-24Voghera, Lombardy, Italy

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.Read more

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Venere Paura

The Sting of Stings

The Skyrocket

Painted People

Jealous Husbands

The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

Hearts Are Trumps

The Unpardonable Sin

In for Thirty Days

Many Scrappy Returns

Vanishing Millions

Hollywood

The Timber Queen

The Foolish Age

Easy to Make Money

Fair Enough

Loud Soup

Good Morning, Judge

How to Handle Women

The Bashful Buccaneer

Cowardice Court

Big City

Spaceship to the Unknown

Crazy to Marry

Hello, 'Frisco

Go and Get It

Tiger Rose

The Fight Pest

The Uneasy Three

The Fire Patrol

Held to Answer

Gay and Devilish

One Wild Week

Treasure Island

What Women Love

Hard Luck

The Lost World

No Father to Guide Him

When the Clouds Roll By

Flash Gordon

His Majesty, the American

Laughing at Danger

On the Front Page

The Three Must-Get-Theres

The Son of the Sheik

Wild and Woolly

Victory

Limousine Love