Bull Montana

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1887-05-15
Place of Birth: Voghera, Lombardy, Italy
Also Known As: Luigi Montagna, Lewis Montagna

Movies List of Bull Montana

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The Lost World

1925 Movie
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Gay and Devilish

1922 Movie
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The Unpardonable Sin

1919 Movie
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Treasure Island

1920 Movie
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Good Morning, Judge

1928 Movie
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Crazy to Marry

1921 Movie
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The Timber Queen

1922 Movie
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The Border Legion

1918 Movie
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Tiger Rose

1929 Movie
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Many Scrappy Returns

1927 Movie
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The Fight Pest

1928 Movie
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Loud Soup

1929 Movie
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Palooka from Paducah

1935 Movie
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The Skyrocket

1926 Movie
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Hollywood

1923 Movie
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Never Too Late

1935 Movie
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Held to Answer

1923 Movie
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How to Handle Women

1928 Movie
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Limousine Love

1928 Movie
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He Comes Up Smiling

1918 Movie
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Go and Get It

1920 Movie
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The Son of the Sheik

1926 Movie
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The Fire Patrol

1924 Movie
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Down to Earth

1917 Movie
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The Uneasy Three

1925 Movie
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Victory

1919 Movie
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On the Front Page

1926 Movie
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Johanna Enlists

1918 Movie
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One Wild Week

1921 Movie
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Painted People

1924 Movie
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Hello, 'Frisco

1924 Movie
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The Sting of Stings

1927 Movie
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Big City

1937 Movie
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Hard Luck

1921 Movie
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Brass Buttons

1919 Movie
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Dick Turpin

1925 Movie
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The Foolish Age

1921 Movie
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Wild and Woolly

1917 Movie
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Laughing at Danger

1924 Movie
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Snap Judgment

1917 Movie