Bull Montana

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Lewis Montagna Italian American (naturalized)
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Bull Montana
Billed height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Billed weight	250 lb (110 kg)
Born	May 16, 1887 Voghera, Italy
Died	January 24, 1950 Los Angeles, California
Billed from	Los Angeles, California
Trained by	Gene Dundee

Bull Montana (May 16, 1887 in Voghera, Italy - January 24, 1950 in Los Angeles, California), was a professional wrestler and American actor.

This 1921 Vanity Fair caricature by Ralph Barton shows the famous people who, he imagined, left work each day in Hollywood; use cursor to identify individual figures.

Lewis Montagna (his real name after his native name Luigi Montagna) came to the U.S. as a child. The hulking, plug-ugly Montagna 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. He was usually cast as a thug, henchman or something not quite sympathetic, and sometomes not quite human (he was the apelike cave dweller in 1925's The Lost World). 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 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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[edit] External links

Bull Montana at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
NAME	Montana, Bull
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Montagna, Lewis
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Wrestler, actor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 16, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Voghera, Italy
DATE OF DEATH	January 24, 1950
PLACE OF DEATH	Los Angeles, California