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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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Filmography (Movies)
Spaceship to the Unknown
Character:Monkey-Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:01/01/1966
Big City
Character:Bull Montana
Release Date:03/09/1937
Flash Gordon
Character:Monkey Man
Release Date:06/04/1936
Never Too Late
Character:Monte, an escaped convict
Release Date:27/11/1935
Palooka from Paducah
Character:Bullfrog Kraus
Release Date:11/01/1935
Tiger Rose
Character:Joe
Release Date:21/12/1929
Glorifying the American Girl
Character:Customer Requesting "Baby Face" (uncredited)
Release Date:07/12/1929
Loud Soup
Character:Convict
Release Date:16/03/1929
How to Handle Women
Character:The Turk
Release Date:14/10/1928
The Fight Pest
Character:
Release Date:12/05/1928
Good Morning, Judge
Character:First Crook
Release Date:29/04/1928
Limousine Love
Character:The Chauffer
Release Date:13/04/1928
The Sting of Stings
Character:Bull Montana
Release Date:03/09/1927
Many Scrappy Returns
Character:Zozo's Husband
Release Date:09/01/1927
On the Front Page
Character:Private Secretary
Release Date:28/11/1926
The Son of the Sheik
Character:Mountebank
Release Date:05/09/1926
The Skyrocket
Character:Film Comedian
Release Date:14/02/1926
Vanishing Millions
Character:The Gorilla
Release Date:21/01/1926
The Uneasy Three
Character:
Release Date:15/11/1925
No Father to Guide Him
Character:Wanted Kidnapper in Photo (uncredited)
Release Date:05/09/1925
The Lost World
Character:Ape Man
Release Date:02/02/1925
Dick Turpin
Character:Bully Boy
Release Date:01/02/1925
Laughing at Danger
Character:Killer Murphy
Release Date:23/11/1924
Hello, 'Frisco
Character:Bull Montana
Release Date:28/09/1924
The Fire Patrol
Character:Fireman
Release Date:14/08/1924
Painted People
Character:Ed Decker
Release Date:28/01/1924
Held to Answer
Character:'Red' Lizard
Release Date:22/11/1923
Jealous Husbands
Character:Portland Kid
Release Date:12/11/1923
Hollywood
Character:Bull Montana
Release Date:19/08/1923
The Three Must-Get-Theres
Character:Li'l Cardinal Richie-Loo
Release Date:22/08/1922
The Timber Queen
Character:
Release Date:16/07/1922
Gay and Devilish
Character:Tony
Release Date:14/05/1922
The Foolish Age
Character:Bubbs
Release Date:16/10/1921
Crazy to Marry
Character:Dago Red (a crook)
Release Date:28/08/1921
One Wild Week
Character:Red Mike
Release Date:08/04/1921
Hard Luck
Character:Virginia's Husband
Release Date:14/03/1921
Go and Get It
Character:The Gorilla
Release Date:18/07/1920
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Character:
Release Date:30/06/1920
What Women Love
Character:Jose
Release Date:01/06/1920
Treasure Island
Character:Morgan
Release Date:02/01/1920
When the Clouds Roll By
Character:The Nightmare
Release Date:28/12/1919
Victory
Character:Pedro
Release Date:07/12/1919
His Majesty, the American
Character:Undetermined Role
Release Date:01/09/1919
Easy to Make Money
Character:Charles 'Kid' Miller
Release Date:04/08/1919
Cowardice Court
Character:Flash Morton
Release Date:15/06/1919
Brass Buttons
Character:Jake the Priest
Release Date:06/04/1919
The Unpardonable Sin
Character:The Brute
Release Date:01/04/1919
Fair Enough
Character:'Happy' Flanigan
Release Date:29/12/1918
Johanna Enlists
Character:Brakeman (uncredited)
Release Date:14/09/1918
He Comes Up Smiling
Character:Baron Bean
Release Date:09/09/1918
The Border Legion
Character:Red Pierce
Release Date:28/07/1918
Snap Judgment
Character:Bull Montana
Release Date:19/11/1917
Down to Earth
Character:Wild Man
Release Date:16/08/1917
Wild and Woolly
Character:Bartender (Uncredited)
Release Date:24/06/1917
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