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.
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime...
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The Big Brawl
as JohnA young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight...
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The Jerk
as Con ManAfter discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin...
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Evilspeak
as JakeBullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.
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Fingers
as LuchinoA wanna-be concert pianist spends his days making a living by collecting debts for his Mafioso...
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Defiance
as WhackoTommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the...
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...All the Marbles
as JeromeA two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top.
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Change of Habit
as Grocer (uncredited)Dr. John Carpenter takes the job of running a health center in a low-income district. He enlists...
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Seven
as The KahunaA government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of...
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Matilda
as Hood #1A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his...
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Pandemonium
as CoachA former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the...
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The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic
as Luca Brasi (uncredited)The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic is a reduced, 386-minute version of the 1977...
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Strike Force
as Italian DockworkerA New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.
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Blood Song
as SkipperA psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the...
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The Funny Face of the Godfather
as SaroThe Godfather Don Vito Monreale knows, by chance, the Italian-American singer Nick Bouillon....
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Contract on Cherry Street
as Phil LombardiA policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is...
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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
as BrickDewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as...
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Below the Belt
as The GeekA close-up look at the turbulent world of women's professional wrestling as a New York City...
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Patty
as The RacketeerDoctors and "experts" sit around the discuss the Patty Hearst kidnaping case, which is seen in...
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Magnum, P.I.
as uncreditedA private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a...
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Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
as Luca Brasi (uncredited)An adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II, re-edited in...
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Search
as uncreditedSearch is an American science fiction series that aired on Wednesday nights on NBC at 10 pm ET,...
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Kojak
as McCoyA bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New...
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