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.

  • Npe: Bull Montana
  • Cov Nrov: 1.798
  • Paub Txog: Acting
  • Hnub yug: 1887-05-15
  • Qhov chaw yug: Voghera, Lombardy, Italy
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  • Kuj Paub Li: Luigi Montagna, Lewis Montagna
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Bull Montana Movies

  • 1925
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    The Lost World

    The Lost World

    6.654 1925 HD

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  • 1922
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    Gay and Devilish

    Gay and Devilish

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1919
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    The Unpardonable Sin

    The Unpardonable Sin

    1 1919 HD

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  • 1920
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    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    1 1920 HD

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  • 1928
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    Good Morning, Judge

    Good Morning, Judge

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1921
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    Crazy to Marry

    Crazy to Marry

    8.5 1921 HD

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  • 1922
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    The Timber Queen

    The Timber Queen

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1918
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    The Border Legion

    The Border Legion

    1 1918 HD

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  • 1929
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    Tiger Rose

    Tiger Rose

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1927
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    Many Scrappy Returns

    Many Scrappy Returns

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1928
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    The Fight Pest

    The Fight Pest

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1929
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    Loud Soup

    Loud Soup

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1935
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    Palooka from Paducah

    Palooka from Paducah

    5.2 1935 HD

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  • 1926
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    The Skyrocket

    The Skyrocket

    1 1926 HD

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  • 1923
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    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    7 1923 HD

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  • 1922
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    The Three Must-Get-Theres

    The Three Must-Get-Theres

    6.3 1922 HD

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  • 1935
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    Never Too Late

    Never Too Late

    4 1935 HD

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  • 1923
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    Held to Answer

    Held to Answer

    1 1923 HD

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  • 1928
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    How to Handle Women

    How to Handle Women

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1928
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    Limousine Love

    Limousine Love

    5.7 1928 HD

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  • 1918
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    He Comes Up Smiling

    He Comes Up Smiling

    5.5 1918 HD

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  • 1920
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    Go and Get It

    Go and Get It

    6 1920 HD

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  • 1926
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    The Son of the Sheik

    The Son of the Sheik

    6.231 1926 HD

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  • 1924
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    The Fire Patrol

    The Fire Patrol

    1 1924 HD

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  • 1917
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    Down to Earth

    Down to Earth

    6 1917 HD

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  • 1925
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    The Uneasy Three

    The Uneasy Three

    1 1925 HD

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  • 1920
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    The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

    The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

    1 1920 HD

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  • 1919
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    When the Clouds Roll By

    When the Clouds Roll By

    6.8 1919 HD

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  • 1919
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    Victory

    Victory

    5.8 1919 HD

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  • 1926
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    On the Front Page

    On the Front Page

    5.7 1926 HD

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  • 1918
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    Johanna Enlists

    Johanna Enlists

    5.8 1918 HD

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  • 1921
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    One Wild Week

    One Wild Week

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1924
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    Painted People

    Painted People

    1 1924 HD

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  • 1919
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    His Majesty, the American

    His Majesty, the American

    5.8 1919 HD

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  • 1924
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    Hello, 'Frisco

    Hello, 'Frisco

    5 1924 HD

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  • 1927
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    The Sting of Stings

    The Sting of Stings

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1937
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    Big City

    Big City

    7.4 1937 HD

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  • 1921
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    Hard Luck

    Hard Luck

    6.805 1921 HD

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  • 1919
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    Brass Buttons

    Brass Buttons

    1 1919 HD

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  • 1925
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    Dick Turpin

    Dick Turpin

    5.3 1925 HD

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  • 1966
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    Spaceship to the Unknown

    Spaceship to the Unknown

    6 1966 HD

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  • 1921
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    The Foolish Age

    The Foolish Age

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1929
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    Glorifying the American Girl

    Glorifying the American Girl

    5.5 1929 HD

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  • 1917
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    Wild and Woolly

    Wild and Woolly

    6.269 1917 HD

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  • 1925
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    No Father to Guide Him

    No Father to Guide Him

    6.5 1925 HD

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  • 1924
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    Laughing at Danger

    Laughing at Danger

    6.2 1924 HD

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