Lenny Montana
- Recitazione
- 13 marzo 1926 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
- 12 maggio 1992
Biografia
Tall and solidly built, this Italian-American professional wrestler turned actor was born Lenny Passaforo in Brooklyn, New York, and is best remembered for his first on-screen role as the not too bright but ever loyal bodyguard Luca Brasi in The Godfather (1972). Montana didn't get a lot of screen time before being eliminated by the henchmen of opposing gangster Al Lettieri with a garrote and a knife; however, he caught the eye of casting agents and over the next ten years racked up roles in 16 movies. Usually cast as "muscle for hire", he was equally good at playing the intimidating thug or a buffoonish hoodlum, such as in Battle Creek Brawl (1980) and The Jerk (1979). His last film appearance was in the B-thriller Blood Song (1982), which he also co-wrote. He died in May 1992 of a heart attack while in Italy.
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Filmografia
- Halloween Monster Bash · Skipper (archive footage)
- Blood Song · Skipper, Sceneggiatura
- Pandemonium · Coach
- La promessa di Satana · Jake
- California Dolls · Jerome
- Magnum, P.I. · Marquis' Bodyguard
- Below the Belt · The Geek
- Chi tocca il giallo muore · John
- I violenti di Borrow Street · Whacko
- Lo straccione · Con Man
- Sette uomini da uccidere · The Kahuna
- They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way · Brick
- Uppercut · Hood #1
- Rapsodia per un killer · Luchino
- Contract on Cherry Street · Phil Lombardi
- Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television · Luca Brasi (uncredited)
- Crack file - Dossier antidroga · Italian Dockworker
- Kojak · McCoy
- L'altra faccia del padrino · Saro
- Search
- Il padrino · Luca Brasi
- Change of Habit · Grocer (uncredited)