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Bull Montana‌

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Bull Montana

Voghera, Lombardy, Italy

Bull Montana

Voghera, Lombardy, Italy

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1887-05-15

Popularity

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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.

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The Lost World

The Lost World‌
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calendar 1925

Gay and Devilish

Gay and Devilish‌
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calendar 1922

The Unpardonable Sin

The Unpardonable Sin‌
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calendar 1919

Treasure Island

Treasure Island‌
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calendar 1920

Good Morning, Judge

Good Morning, Judge‌
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calendar 1928

Crazy to Marry

Crazy to Marry‌
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calendar 1921

The Timber Queen

The Timber Queen‌
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calendar 1922

The Border Legion

The Border Legion‌
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calendar 1918

Tiger Rose

Tiger Rose‌
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calendar 1929

Many Scrappy Returns

Many Scrappy Returns‌
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calendar 1927

The Fight Pest

The Fight Pest‌
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calendar 1928

Loud Soup

Loud Soup‌
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calendar 1929

Palooka from Paducah

Palooka from Paducah‌
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calendar 1935

The Skyrocket

The Skyrocket‌
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calendar 1926

Hollywood

Hollywood‌
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calendar 1923

The Three Must-Get-Theres

The Three Must-Get-Theres‌
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calendar 1922

Never Too Late

Never Too Late‌
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calendar 1935

Held to Answer

Held to Answer‌
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calendar 1923

How to Handle Women

How to Handle Women‌
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calendar 1928

Limousine Love

Limousine Love‌
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calendar 1928

He Comes Up Smiling

He Comes Up Smiling‌
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calendar 1918

Go and Get It

Go and Get It‌
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calendar 1920

The Son of the Sheik

The Son of the Sheik‌
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calendar 1926

The Fire Patrol

The Fire Patrol‌
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calendar 1924

Down to Earth

Down to Earth‌
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calendar 1917

The Uneasy Three

The Uneasy Three‌
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calendar 1925

The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

The Adventures of Daredevil Jack‌
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calendar 1920

When the Clouds Roll By

When the Clouds Roll By‌
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calendar 1919

Victory

Victory‌
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calendar 1919

On the Front Page

On the Front Page‌
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calendar 1926

Johanna Enlists

Johanna Enlists‌
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calendar 1918

One Wild Week

One Wild Week‌
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calendar 1921

Painted People

Painted People‌
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calendar 1924

His Majesty, the American

His Majesty, the American‌
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calendar 1919

Hello, 'Frisco

Hello, 'Frisco‌
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calendar 1924

The Sting of Stings

The Sting of Stings‌
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calendar 1927

Big City

Big City‌
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calendar 1937

Hard Luck

Hard Luck‌
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calendar 1921

Brass Buttons

Brass Buttons‌
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calendar 1919

Dick Turpin

Dick Turpin‌
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calendar 1925

Spaceship to the Unknown

Spaceship to the Unknown‌
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calendar 1966

The Foolish Age

The Foolish Age‌
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calendar 1921

Glorifying the American Girl

Glorifying the American Girl‌
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calendar 1929

Wild and Woolly

Wild and Woolly‌
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calendar 1917

No Father to Guide Him

No Father to Guide Him‌
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calendar 1925

Laughing at Danger

Laughing at Danger‌
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calendar 1924

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment‌
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calendar 1917

Cowardice Court

Cowardice Court‌
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calendar 1919

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