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.

  • Title: Bull Montana
  • Popularity: 1.007
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1887-05-15
  • Place of Birth: Voghera, Lombardy, Italy
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  • Also Known As: Luigi Montagna, Lewis Montagna
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Bull Montana Movies

  • 1925
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    The Lost World

    The Lost World

    6.7 1925 HD

    The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

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  • 1922
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    Gay and Devilish

    Gay and Devilish

    1 1922 HD

    Doris May plays Fanchon Browne, a poor girl about to enter into a marriage of convenience with wealthy old Peter Armitage (Otis Harlan). When she...

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  • 1919
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    The Unpardonable Sin

    The Unpardonable Sin

    1 1919 HD

    Based on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at the beginning of the Great War.

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  • 1920
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    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    1 1920 HD

    Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation...

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  • 1928
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    Good Morning, Judge

    Good Morning, Judge

    1 1928 HD

    Freddie, a rich young idler, meets Julia Harrington, a wealthy social service worker who runs a haven for reformed criminals. By telling her he is a...

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  • 1921
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    Crazy to Marry

    Crazy to Marry

    8.5 1921 HD

    A doctor who believes he can cure criminals takes on a big challenge.

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  • 1922
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    The Timber Queen

    The Timber Queen

    1 1922 HD

    The Timber Queen follows Ruth Rowland as the inheritor of a wealthy timber business who tries to stay independent of a cruel man who wants to marry...

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  • 1918
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    The Border Legion

    The Border Legion

    1 1918 HD

    Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the...

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  • 1929
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    Tiger Rose

    Tiger Rose

    1 1929 HD

    A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.

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  • 1927
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    Many Scrappy Returns

    Many Scrappy Returns

    1 1927 HD

    Many Scrappy Returns

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  • 1928
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    The Fight Pest

    The Fight Pest

    1 1928 HD

    The Fight Pest is a silent movie short.

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  • 1929
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    Loud Soup

    Loud Soup

    1 1929 HD

    Loud Soup is a comedy short

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  • 1935
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    Palooka from Paducah

    Palooka from Paducah

    5.2 1935 HD

    A hillbilly family, hard-hit by the end of Prohibition, decide to set the biggest brother up as a professional wrestler.

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  • 1926
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    The Skyrocket

    The Skyrocket

    1 1926 HD

    In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are separated when Sharon is placed in an orphanage....

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  • 1923
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    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    7 1923 HD

    Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...

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  • 1922
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    The Three Must-Get-Theres

    The Three Must-Get-Theres

    6.3 1922 HD

    In this movie, Max Linder parodies the famous novel "The Three Musketeers".

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  • 1935
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    Never Too Late

    Never Too Late

    4 1935 HD

    A young man gets mixed up with a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.

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  • 1923
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    Held to Answer

    Held to Answer

    1 1923 HD

    John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become a minister in a western town. Marian appears, and...

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  • 1928
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    How to Handle Women

    How to Handle Women

    1 1928 HD

    When Leonard Higgins, a cartoonist, meets Prince Hendryx, ruler of the small nation of Vulgaria, he offers to help save the country by advertising...

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  • 1928
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    Limousine Love

    Limousine Love

    5.7 1928 HD

    On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car

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  • 1918
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    He Comes Up Smiling

    He Comes Up Smiling

    5.5 1918 HD

    Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the guise of Bachelor, the "king of the market," and...

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  • 1920
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    Go and Get It

    Go and Get It

    6 1920 HD

    Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is tracked by a feisty newspaper reporter.

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  • 1926
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    The Son of the Sheik

    The Son of the Sheik

    6.2 1926 HD

    Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts her father's gang of mountebanks. She and Ahmed...

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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

    A healthy outdoors-type follows the girl he loves to a resort for wealthy hypochondriacs. In order to prove to her and the other patients that their...

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  • 1925
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    The Uneasy Three

    The Uneasy Three

    1 1925 HD

    Often hysterical spoof of Tod Browning's THE UNHOLY THREE (and several others of his crime movies) has Charley Chase playing the mastermind of a...

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  • 1920
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    The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

    The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

    1 1920 HD

    Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he...

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  • 1919
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    When the Clouds Roll By

    When the Clouds Roll By

    6.833 1919 HD

    Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the...

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  • 1919
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    Victory

    Victory

    5.8 1919 HD

    Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.

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  • 1926
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    On the Front Page

    On the Front Page

    5.7 1926 HD

    After being beaten to a story of scandal involving Countess Polasky, James W. Hornby assigns his son 24 hours to find an even more scandalous story...

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  • 1918
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    Johanna Enlists

    Johanna Enlists

    5.8 1918 HD

    A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.

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  • 1921
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    One Wild Week

    One Wild Week

    1 1921 HD

    Pauline Hathaway is informed on her 18th birthday by the family lawyer that she will inherit half a million dollars, provided that her behavior meets...

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  • 1924
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    Painted People

    Painted People

    1 1924 HD

    A 1924 film directed by Clarence G. Badger.

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  • 1919
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    His Majesty, the American

    His Majesty, the American

    5.8 1919 HD

    A European prince is raised in America without knowing his true identity; he spends his time thrill-seeking, but his country needs him when a revolt...

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  • 1924
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    Hello, 'Frisco

    Hello, 'Frisco

    5 1924 HD

    A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.

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  • 1927
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    The Sting of Stings

    The Sting of Stings

    1 1927 HD

    Charley and Edna are feeling very pleased with themselves and their new car. They decide to share their good fortune and offer to take six...

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  • 1937
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    Big City

    Big City

    7.4 1937 HD

    Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob...

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  • 1921
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    Hard Luck

    Hard Luck

    6.818 1921 HD

    A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a...

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  • 1919
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    Brass Buttons

    Brass Buttons

    1 1919 HD

    Kingston Hollister admires Bernice Cleveland from afar. He asks Officer Callahan, the policeman on the beat, about her and mistakenly believes she is...

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  • 1925
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    Dick Turpin

    Dick Turpin

    5.3 1925 HD

    In eighteenth century England, gentleman highwayman Dick Turpin overcomes many difficulties to rescue his sweetheart from a terrible marriage.

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  • 1966
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    Spaceship to the Unknown

    Spaceship to the Unknown

    6 1966 HD

    A heavy condensation of the original serial compresses the original thirteen episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Disaster seems imminent...

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  • 1921
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    The Foolish Age

    The Foolish Age

    1 1921 HD

    After graduating from college, rich girl Margery Carr decides to do some good in the world. Much to the chagrin of her father, she decides to open an...

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  • 1929
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    Glorifying the American Girl

    Glorifying the American Girl

    5.5 1929 HD

    A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the...

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  • 1917
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    Wild and Woolly

    Wild and Woolly

    6.269 1917 HD

    A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long...

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  • 1925
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    No Father to Guide Him

    No Father to Guide Him

    6.5 1925 HD

    Charley's battle-axe mother-in-law breaks up his marriage and tries to separate him from his son. Charlie abducts the boy for a father-son outing to...

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  • 1924
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    Laughing at Danger

    Laughing at Danger

    6.2 1924 HD

    A young fellow, down in the dumps after a belle breaks his heart, believes his father is setting up staged escapades and dangers in an attempt to get...

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  • 1917
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    Snap Judgment

    Snap Judgment

    1 1917 HD

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