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.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	1.0107
Birthday	1887-05-15
Place of Birth	Voghera, Lombardy, Italy
Also Known As	Luigi Montagna, Lewis Montagna,

The Lost World

Gay and Devilish

The Unpardonable Sin

Treasure Island

Good Morning, Judge

Crazy to Marry

The Timber Queen

The Border Legion

Tiger Rose

Many Scrappy Returns

The Fight Pest

Loud Soup

Palooka from Paducah

The Skyrocket

Hollywood

The Three Must-Get-Theres

Never Too Late

Held to Answer

How to Handle Women

Limousine Love

He Comes Up Smiling

Go and Get It

The Son of the Sheik

The Fire Patrol

Down to Earth

The Uneasy Three

The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

When the Clouds Roll By

Victory

On the Front Page

Johanna Enlists

One Wild Week

Painted People

His Majesty, the American

Hello, 'Frisco

The Sting of Stings

Big City

Hard Luck

Brass Buttons

Dick Turpin

Spaceship to the Unknown

The Foolish Age

Glorifying the American Girl

Wild and Woolly

No Father to Guide Him

Laughing at Danger

Snap Judgment

Cowardice Court

Vanishing Millions

Fair Enough

Flash Gordon

What Women Love

Easy to Make Money

Jealous Husbands

In for Thirty Days

In Again, Out Again

Hearts Are Trumps

The Bashful Buccaneer