Lenny Montana
Also Known As: Lenny Passaforo
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthday: March 13, 1926
Deathday: May 12, 1992
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Gender: Male
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...All the Marbles
Overview: A two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-01
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The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic
Overview: The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic is a reduced, 386-minute version of the 1977 television miniseries, "Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television," released to video in 1981. Unlike the miniseries, which was presented in four segments (each with opening and closing credits), the Epic is presented as a single segment. In January 2016, HBO aired the Epic in its uncut and uncensored format, later making it available on its streaming platforms. The HBO showing contained most of the known deleted scenes, thereby lengthening the runtime of the Epic from its video release to 423 minutes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-24
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Strike Force
Overview: A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-12
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The Big Brawl
Overview: A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-18
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Change of Habit
Overview: 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 him — are actually nuns in street clothes. The church wants to improve the neighborhood but fears that nuns in full habit would not be well received. Unaware of her unavailability, John falls for Sister Michelle, serenading her with his guitar — which, luckily for him, effectively wears away at her religious resolve.
Genres: Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-10
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Matilda
Overview: A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-22
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The Jerk
Overview: 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 from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-14
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Blood Song
Overview: 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 blood transfusion from him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-01
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The Godfather
Overview: Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-14
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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Overview: 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 hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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Defiance
Overview: 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 seaman and though he tries to avoid the gang and his neighbors, it does not work. Soon he is battling the Souls and not only changing their attitudes, but the attitudes of his previously intimidated neighbors as well.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-14
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Pandemonium
Overview: 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 of closure for being targeted by a serial killer.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Patty
Overview: Doctors and "experts" sit around the discuss the Patty Hearst kidnaping case, which is seen in flashbacks.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-11
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The Funny Face of the Godfather
Overview: The Godfather Don Vito Monreale knows, by chance, the Italian-American singer Nick Bouillon. Since the two are alike, Don Vito decided to exploit this similarity in his favour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-05-03
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Seven
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-07
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Evilspeak
Overview: Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-22
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Below the Belt
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-01
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Fingers
Overview: 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 dreams of a musical career.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-02
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Contract on Cherry Street
Overview: A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-19
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Patty
Overview: A mockumentary where doctors and "experts" discuss the Patty Hearst kidnaping case, which is seen in flashbacks.
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Original Language: en
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