Lenny Montana

Lenny Montana

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.

  • Title: Lenny Montana
  • Popularity: 10.706
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1926-03-13
  • Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Lenny Passaforo
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Lenny Montana Movies

  • 1981
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    ...All the Marbles

    ...All the Marbles

    6.245 1981 HD

    A two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top.

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  • 1981
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    The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic

    The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic

    9.3 1981 HD

    The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic is a reduced, 386-minute version of the 1977 television miniseries, "Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The...

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  • 1975
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    Strike Force

    Strike Force

    6.5 1975 HD

    A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.

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  • 1980
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    The Big Brawl

    The Big Brawl

    5.962 1980 HD

    A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.

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  • 1969
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    Change of Habit

    Change of Habit

    5.54 1969 HD

    Dr. John Carpenter takes the job of running a health center in a low-income district. He enlists three women to help out who — unbeknownst to...

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  • 1978
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    Matilda

    Matilda

    5.6 1978 HD

    A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.

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  • 1979
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    The Jerk

    The Jerk

    6.902 1979 HD

    After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him...

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  • 1982
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    Blood Song

    Blood Song

    4.95 1982 HD

    A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a...

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  • 1972
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    The Godfather

    The Godfather

    8.69 1972 HD

    Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito...

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  • 1978
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    They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way

    They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way

    4 1978 HD

    Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have...

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  • 1980
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    Defiance

    Defiance

    6.261 1980 HD

    Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a...

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  • 1982
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    Pandemonium

    Pandemonium

    4.62 1982 HD

    A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years...

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  • 1976
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    Patty

    Patty

    1 1976 HD

    Doctors and "experts" sit around the discuss the Patty Hearst kidnaping case, which is seen in flashbacks.

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  • 1973
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    The Funny Face of the Godfather

    The Funny Face of the Godfather

    2 1973 HD

    The Godfather Don Vito Monreale knows, by chance, the Italian-American singer Nick Bouillon. Since the two are alike, Don Vito decided to exploit...

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  • 1979
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    Seven

    Seven

    5.8 1979 HD

    A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them.

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  • 1981
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    Evilspeak

    Evilspeak

    5.3 1981 HD

    Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.

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  • 1980
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    Below the Belt

    Below the Belt

    4.7 1980 HD

    A close-up look at the turbulent world of women's professional wrestling as a New York City waitress decides to become a professional wrestler.

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  • 1978
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    Fingers

    Fingers

    6.4 1978 HD

    A wanna-be concert pianist spends his days making a living by collecting debts for his Mafioso father, a lifestyle that could eventually ruin his...

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  • 1977
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    Contract on Cherry Street

    Contract on Cherry Street

    6.3 1977 HD

    A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.

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  • 1982
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    Blood Song

    Blood Song

    4.95 1982 HD

    A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a...

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  • 1982
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    Blood Song

    Blood Song

    4.95 1982 HD

    A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a...

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  • 1980
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    Magnum, P.I.

    Magnum, P.I.

    7.283 1980 HD

    A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank...

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  • 1973
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    Kojak

    Kojak

    6.9 1973 HD

    A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

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  • 1972
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    Search

    Search

    6.9 1972 HD

    Search is an American science fiction series that aired on Wednesday nights on NBC at 10 pm ET, from September 1972 to August 1973. It ran for 23...

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  • 1977
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    Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

    Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

    8.5 1977 HD

    An adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II, re-edited in chronological order with additional footage not seen...

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