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Bull Montana
Acting

Bull Montana
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1887-05-15,Voghera, Lombardy, Italy
Gender
Male
Biography
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.

Filmography

6.759

The Lost World
1925-02-02

Gay and Devilish

7

Gay and Devilish
1922-05-14

The Unpardonable Sin

10

The Unpardonable Sin
1919-04-01

Treasure Island

7

Treasure Island
1920-01-02

Good Morning, Judge

8

Good Morning, Judge
1928-04-29

7.75

Crazy to Marry
1921-08-28

The Timber Queen

9

The Timber Queen
1922-07-16

The Border Legion

0

The Border Legion
1918-07-28

7

Tiger Rose
1929-12-21

Many Scrappy Returns

9

Many Scrappy Returns
1927-01-09

7

The Fight Pest
1928-05-12

8

Loud Soup
1929-03-16

Palooka from Paducah

5.429

Palooka from Paducah
1935-01-11

10

The Skyrocket
1926-02-14

9

Hollywood
1923-08-19

The Three Must-Get-Theres

6.4

The Three Must-Get-Theres
1922-08-22

5.5

Never Too Late
1935-11-27

7

Held to Answer
1923-11-22

How to Handle Women

8

How to Handle Women
1928-10-14

6

Limousine Love
1928-04-13

He Comes Up Smiling

5.5

He Comes Up Smiling
1918-09-09

7.5

Go and Get It
1920-07-18

The Son of the Sheik

6.152

The Son of the Sheik
1926-09-05

The Fire Patrol

7

The Fire Patrol
1924-08-14

6

Down to Earth
1917-08-16

The Uneasy Three

7

The Uneasy Three
1925-11-15

The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

10

The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
1920-06-30

When the Clouds Roll By

6.75

When the Clouds Roll By
1919-12-28

6.154

Victory
1919-12-07

On the Front Page

6.417

On the Front Page
1926-11-28

Johanna Enlists

5.8

Johanna Enlists
1918-09-14

7

One Wild Week
1921-04-08

10

Painted People
1924-01-28

His Majesty, the American

6.6

His Majesty, the American
1919-09-01

7.5

Hello, 'Frisco
1924-09-28

The Sting of Stings

10

The Sting of Stings
1927-09-03

7.667

Big City
1937-09-03

6.9

Hard Luck
1921-03-14

0

Brass Buttons
1919-04-06

5.75

Dick Turpin
1925-02-01

Spaceship to the Unknown

7.333

Spaceship to the Unknown
1966-01-01

The Foolish Age

9

The Foolish Age
1921-10-16

Glorifying the American Girl

5.588

Glorifying the American Girl
1929-12-07

Wild and Woolly

6.281

Wild and Woolly
1917-06-24

No Father to Guide Him

6.75

No Father to Guide Him
1925-09-05

Laughing at Danger

6.5

Laughing at Danger
1924-11-23

0

Snap Judgment
1917-11-19

Cowardice Court

8

Cowardice Court
1919-06-15

Vanishing Millions

9

Vanishing Millions
1926-01-21

9

Fair Enough
1918-12-29

6.436

Flash Gordon
1936-04-06

What Women Love

7

What Women Love
1920-06-01

Easy to Make Money

9

Easy to Make Money
1919-08-04

Jealous Husbands

10

Jealous Husbands
1923-11-12

In for Thirty Days

10

In for Thirty Days
1919-01-27

In Again, Out Again

0

In Again, Out Again
1917-04-30

Hearts Are Trumps

10

Hearts Are Trumps
1920-12-13

The Bashful Buccaneer

8

The Bashful Buccaneer
1925-11-07