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Lisa Montell‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1933-07-05

Popularity

star2.1

Lisa Montell

Warsaw, Poland

Lisa Montell

Warsaw, Poland

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1933-07-05

Popularity

star2.1

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.

Movie Credits

Naked Paradise

Naked Paradise‌
star3.8
calendar 1957

World Without End

World Without End‌
star5.7
calendar 1956

She Gods of Shark Reef

She Gods of Shark Reef‌
star3.2
calendar 1958

Escape to Burma

Escape to Burma‌
star5.8
calendar 1955

Pearl of the South Pacific

Pearl of the South Pacific‌
star6.4
calendar 1955

The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold

The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold‌
star6.5
calendar 1958

Tomahawk Trail

Tomahawk Trail‌
star5.7
calendar 1957

Jump Into Hell

Jump Into Hell‌
star4.0
calendar 1955

The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca

The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca‌
star7.0
calendar 1958

Daughter of the Sun God

Daughter of the Sun God‌
star3.0
calendar 1962

Daddy Long Legs

Daddy Long Legs‌
star6.3
calendar 1955

The Wild Dakotas

The Wild Dakotas‌
star0.0
calendar 1956

The Long Rope

The Long Rope‌
star5.0
calendar 1961

The Firebrand

The Firebrand‌
star6.0
calendar 1962

Gaby

Gaby‌
star7.0
calendar 1956

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

Ten Thousand Bedrooms‌
star5.0
calendar 1957

Finger Man

Finger Man‌
star5.4
calendar 1955

Tv Credits

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Public Defender

Public Defender‌
star5.0
calendar 1954

Wire Service

Wire Service‌
star0.0
calendar 1956

Tales of Wells Fargo

Tales of Wells Fargo‌
star6.8
calendar 1957

The O. Henry Playhouse

The O. Henry Playhouse‌
star0.0
calendar 1957

The Millionaire

The Millionaire‌
star5.0
calendar 1955

Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow‌
star5.0
calendar 1956

The Gene Autry Show

The Gene Autry Show‌
star4.8
calendar 1950

The Jane Wyman Show

The Jane Wyman Show‌
star2.7
calendar 1955

Cavalcade of America

Cavalcade of America‌
star3.5
calendar 1952

Matinee Theater

Matinee Theater‌
star3.3
calendar 1955

Northwest Passage

Northwest Passage‌
star6.5
calendar 1958

The Wonderful World of Disney

The Wonderful World of Disney‌
star7.6
calendar 1954

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

The Adventures of Jim Bowie‌
star3.7
calendar 1956

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer‌
star6.6
calendar 1958

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse‌
star4.3
calendar 1958

Colt .45

Colt .45‌
star5.0
calendar 1957

The Ann Sothern Show

The Ann Sothern Show‌
star6.5
calendar 1958

Have Gun, Will Travel

Have Gun, Will Travel‌
star7.4
calendar 1957

Bat Masterson

Bat Masterson‌
star6.3
calendar 1958

Sugarfoot

Sugarfoot‌
star4.2
calendar 1957

One Step Beyond

One Step Beyond‌
star5.6
calendar 1959

Johnny Midnight

Johnny Midnight‌
star0.0
calendar 1960

Frontier Doctor

Frontier Doctor‌
star5.0
calendar 1958

The Dennis O'Keefe Show

The Dennis O'Keefe Show‌
star5.0
calendar 1959

Surfside 6

Surfside 6‌
star5.0
calendar 1960

77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip‌
star6.7
calendar 1958

Combat!

Combat!‌
star7.6
calendar 1962

Maverick

Maverick‌
star6.8
calendar 1957

Cheyenne

Cheyenne‌
star5.8
calendar 1955