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Lisa Montell
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Lisa Montell
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1933-07-05,Warsaw, Poland
Gender
Female
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lisa Janti is known as Lisa Montell as a Hollywood actress of the 1950-60s, and then shifted her career to one of advocacy and service to various disadvantaged groups and to her adopted religion, the Bahá'í Faith. Lisa Janti, known as Lisa Montell as a Hollywood actress of the 1950-60s, was born Irena Ludmila Vladimirovna Augustynowic of Russian-Polish ancestry, and her family fled to Poland before World War II. On arrival in New York they changed their last name to Montwill so she grew up Irene Montwill. They lived in New York and Janti attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. After becoming involved in English-speaking theatre she was noticed by Hollywood producer Dick Welding who offered her a part in Daughter of the Sun God, filmed in Peru c. 1953 with actor William Holmes. Shortly afterwards her father died and the family chose to follow the opportunity Hollywood was giving her with her career. Her first role may have been in 1954 in the TV series The Public Defender, based on the film of the same name. On television she was on the Cheyenne show episode "Border Showdown" (Showdown in Paso Also) of 1955 and the 1956 Jane Wyman's Fireside Theater episode "A Time to live" and the Sugarfoot show episode "Guns for Big Bear" in 1958. In 1962 she was in Combat! episode "A Day in June". Janti was known as the "Starlet of many faces" probably portraying more diverse ethnic roles though she was Polish including Polynesian, Native American, Mexican, Burmese, French, Italian, Spanish, east Indian and Persian – roles with dubious cultural and sexist stereotypes. Among the productions Janti was cast in are She Gods of Shark Reef, Ten Thousand Bedrooms, Pearl of the South Pacific, Jump Into Hell, The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold, and World Without End.

Filmography

3.8

Naked Paradise
1957-01-01

World Without End

5.7

World Without End
1956-03-25

She Gods of Shark Reef

3.2

She Gods of Shark Reef
1958-08-01

Escape to Burma

5.8

Escape to Burma
1955-04-09

Pearl of the South Pacific

6.091

Pearl of the South Pacific
1955-09-16

The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold

6.5

The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
1958-06-04

5.7

Tomahawk Trail
1957-02-01

4

Jump Into Hell
1955-04-01

The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca

7

The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca
1958-10-02

Daughter of the Sun God

3

Daughter of the Sun God
1962-01-01

Daddy Long Legs

6.3

Daddy Long Legs
1955-05-05

The Wild Dakotas

0

The Wild Dakotas
1956-02-28

5

The Long Rope
1961-03-26

6

The Firebrand
1962-08-07

7

Gaby
1956-05-09

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

5

Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957-04-03

5.5

Finger Man
1955-06-15

Public Defender

6

Public Defender
1954-03-11

The Gene Autry Show

4.2

The Gene Autry Show
1950-07-23

Lux Video Theatre

6

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

The Jane Wyman Show

4

The Jane Wyman Show
1955-08-30

The Millionaire

5

The Millionaire
1955-01-19

5

Broken Arrow
1956-09-25

The O. Henry Playhouse

0

The O. Henry Playhouse
1957-01-23

Cavalcade of America

3.5

Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01

0

Wire Service
1956-10-04

Tales of Wells Fargo

6.273

Tales of Wells Fargo
1957-03-18

Matinee Theater

4.6

Matinee Theater
1955-10-31

5

Colt .45
1957-10-18

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

3.7

The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956-09-07

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

6.6

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
1958-01-07

The Ann Sothern Show

6.5

The Ann Sothern Show
1958-10-06

The Wonderful World of Disney

7.6

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954-10-27

Northwest Passage

6.5

Northwest Passage
1958-09-14

Frontier Doctor

5

Frontier Doctor
1958-09-26

Have Gun, Will Travel

7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957-09-14

4.8

Sugarfoot
1957-09-17

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

5.25

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958-10-06

The Dennis O'Keefe Show

5

The Dennis O'Keefe Show
1959-09-22

6.077

Bat Masterson
1958-10-08

One Step Beyond

5.615

One Step Beyond
1959-01-20

Johnny Midnight

0

Johnny Midnight
1960-01-03

5

Surfside 6
1960-10-06

77 Sunset Strip

6.7

77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10

7.6

Combat!
1962-10-02

6.8

Maverick
1957-09-22

5.8

Cheyenne
1955-09-20