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Bull Montana
Bull Montana

Bull Montana

May 15, 1887 — Jan 24, 1950 (62 years) Voghera, Lombardy, Italy
47 Movies
Born in Voghera, Lombardy, Italy, Bull Montana is an actor. They appear in the film The Lost World as Ape Man.
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Born in Voghera, Lombardy, Italy, Bull Montana is an actor. They appear in the film The Lost World as Ape Man.
62 R.I.P.
R.I.P.
47
Movies
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Series
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Big City
Big City
Bull Montana
1937
Film
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon
Monkey Man
1936
Film
Never Too Late
Never Too Late
Monte, an escaped convict
1935
Film
Palooka from Paducah
Palooka from Paducah
Bullfrog Kraus
1935
Film
Tiger Rose
Tiger Rose
Joe
1929
Film
Glorifying the American Girl
Glorifying the American Girl
Customer Requesting "Baby Face" (uncredited)
1929
Film
Loud Soup
Loud Soup
Convict
1929
Film
How to Handle Women
How to Handle Women
The Turk
1928
Film
Limousine Love
Limousine Love
The Chauffer
1928
Film
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Bull Montana still alive?
Bull Montana passed away on January 24, 1950 at age 62.
What are the most famous roles of Bull Montana?
Bull Montana is best known for roles in The Lost World, Hard Luck, Flash Gordon.
How many movies has Bull Montana been in?
Over a 33-year career (since 1917), Bull Montana has appeared in 57 movies and 0 TV shows.
What was Bull Montana's first movie?
The career of Bull Montana began with In Again, Out Again (1917).
What is Bull Montana's most recent movie or series?
Bull Montana's most recent release is Big City, which premiered on September 3, 1937.
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Bull Montana
Bull Montana
1887-05-15 · Voghera, Lombardy, Italy

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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