Renzo Montagnani

Renzo Montagnani (September 11, 1930 – May 22, 1997) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Biography

Montagnani was born in Alessandria, Piedmont, and debuted as theatre actor thanks to the help of Erminio Macario. His first cinema success was his dramatic role in '' Metello'' (1970), but he later switched to the commedia all'italiana with his roles in the last two chapters of the ''Amici miei'' series (1982 and 1985). In the 1980s he also participated to a TV show as Don Fumino, an easy-speaking Tuscan parish priest.

Montagnani also intensively worked as dubber, dubbing actors such as Michel Piccoli, Charles Bronson and Philippe Noiret for the Italian version of movies. He was also the Italian voice of Thomas O'Malley in the 1970 Disney film '' The Aristocats''.

In his later years he participated to numerous commedia sexy all'italiana films, often pairing with Edwige Fenech, the most popular actress of the genre, and also with Alvaro Vitali as the comic sidekick.

Personal life

In 1959, Montagnani married Eileen Jarvis, who was a member of the Bluebell Girls. In 1963, they had one son, Daniele.

Death

Montagnani died in Rome of lung cancer on 22 May 1997 at the age of 66. He was buried in England. His son Daniele, died of cancer in 2004 and was buried alongside his father.

Filmography

* ''Dreams Die at Dawn'' (1961) as Sergio
* '' Dal sabato al lunedi'' (1962) as custom man
* ''Honeymoon, Italian Style'' (1966) as Nicola
* ''I sette fratelli Cervi'' (1968) as Ferdinando Cervi
* '' Donne, botte e bersaglieri'' (1968) as Luigi
* '' Faustina'' (1968) as Quirino
* ''La matriarca'' (1969) as Fabrizio
* '' Metello'' (1970) as Poldo Salani (uncredited)
* ''Quando le donne avevano la coda'' (1970) as Maluc
* '' Tre ipotesi sulla morte di Pinelli'' (1970, Short)
* '' Mazzabubù... Quante corna stanno quaggiù?'' (1971) as Bepi, the farmer
* ''Una cavalla tutta nuda'' (1972) as Gulfardo de Bardi
* ''Il sindacalista'' (1972) as Luigi Tamperletti
* ''Jus primae noctis'' (1972) as Gandolfo
* '' L'arma, l'ora, il movente'' (1972) as commissioner Franco Boito
* '' Il prode Anselmo e il suo scudiero'' (1972) as Ottone
* '' Fiorina la vacca'' (1972) as Compare Menico
* '' Number One'' (1973) as Vinci
* ''The Assassination of Matteotti'' (1973) as Umberto Tancredi
* ''Massacre in Rome'' (1973) as police chief Pietro Caruso
* '' Le folli avventure di Rabbi Jacob'' (1973) as colonel Farès
* '' La preda'' (1974) as Daniel Lester
* ''Peccati in famiglia'' (1975, regia di Bruno Gaburro) as Carlo
* '' Il vizio di famiglia'' (1975) as Giacomo
* '' La nuora giovane'' (1975) as Accountant
* '' Lezioni private'' (1975) as Giulio - uncle of Alessandro
* '' La moglie vergine'' (1975) as Uncle Federico Arrighini
* ''Amici miei'' (1975) as Giorgio Perozzi (voice, uncredited)
* ''Quel movimento che mi piace tanto'' (1976) as Il 'marquis' Cecco Ottobuoni
* ''Il letto in piazza'' (1976) as Luca Reali
* ''La segretaria privata di mio padre'' (1976) as Armando Ponziani
* '' Donna... cosa si fa per te'' (1976) as Francesco 'Cecco' Balducci
* '' Cassiodoro il più duro del pretorio'' (1976)
* '' Il ginecologo della mutua'' (1977) as Dr. Franco Giovanardi
* '' Peccatori di provincia'' (1977) as Angelo Lo Curcio / Sindaco-Mayor
* ''L'appuntamento'' (1977) as Adelmo Bartalesi
* '' La soldatessa alla visita militare'' (1977) as colonel Narciso Fiaschetta
* '' When the Silver Crows Fly'' (1977) as Maineddu
* ''L'insegnante va in collegio'' (1978) as Riccardo Bolzoni
* ''Una bella governante di colore'' (1978) as Nicola Sallusti
* '' L'insegnante viene a casa'' (1978) as Ferdinando Bonci Marinotti
* '' La soldatessa alle grandi manovre'' (1978) as colonel Fiaschetta
* ''Viaggio con Anita'' (1979) as Omero
* '' L'insegnante balla... con tutta la classe'' (1979) as Prof. Martorelli
* '' Dove vai se il vizietto non ce l'hai?'' (1979) as Diogene Colombo
* '' La vedova del trullo'' (1979) as Nicola /Prof. Luigi Granini
* '' Scusi, lei è normale?'' (1979) as Gustavo Sparvieri
* '' Io zombo, tu zombi, lei zomba'' (1979) as undertaker
* '' Riavanti... Marsch!'' (1979) as Lieutenant Pietro Bianchi
* ''La giacca verde'' (1979, TV Movie) as Romualdi
* ''Il corpo della ragassa'' (1979) as Pasquale Aguzzi
* ''Qua la mano'' (1980) as Libero Battaglini
* '' La moglie in vacanza... l'amante in città'' (1980) as Andrea Damiani
* '' Prestami tua moglie'' (1980) as Mario Bonotto
* '' La liceale al mare con l'amica di papà'' (1980) as Massimo Castaldi
* '' Una moglie, due amici, quattro amanti'' (1980) as Luigi Frontoni
* ''Il casinista'' (1980) as Enrico Marcullo
* ''Tutta da scoprire'' (1981) as Arturo Bonafé
* '' C'è un fantasma nel mio letto'' (1981) as Baron Sir Archibald Trenton
* ''I carabbinieri'' (1981) as General Nencini
* '' Per favore, occupati di Amelia'' (1981) as Marcello
* ''Mia moglie torna a scuola'' (1981) as Aristide Buratti
* '' Perché non facciamo l'amore?'' (1981) as Dr. Bernardino Livi
* ''La poliziotta a New York'' (1981) as Maccarone
* ''La dottoressa preferisce i marinai'' (1981) as suicide
* '' L'assistente sociale tutto pepe'' (1981) as 'Gratta'
* '' Il marito in vacanza'' (1981) as Prof. Esposito / Cardinal Peppino
* ''I carabbimatti'' (1981) as Dallas (uncredited)
* '' Crema, cioccolata e pa... prika'' (1981) as Osvaldo Bonifazi
* ''Pierino la Peste alla riscossa'' (1982) as Pier Maria Delle Vedove
* '' Il regalo'' (1982) as L'émir Fayçal de Krator
* ''Amici miei atto II'' (1982) as Guido Necchi
* ''Giocare d'azzardo'' (1982) as Riccardo
* '' State buoni se potete'' (1983) as The Devil (Il diavolo)
* '' Scherzo del destino in agguato dietro l'angolo come un brigante da strada'' (1983) as captain Pautasso of the DIGOS
* ''Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio'' (1983) as Aldovrandi
* '' Stesso mare stessa spiaggia'' (1983) as Il Trivella
* '' Champagne in Paradiso'' (1983) as Don Giovanni
* '' Amici miei atto III'' (1985) as Guido Necchi
* '' Quelli del casco'' (1988)
* ''Il volpone'' (1988) as Raffaele Voltore
* ''Rimini Rimini - Un anno dopo'' (1988) as Luciano Ambrosi ("La scelta")
* ''Zuppa di pesce'' (1992)

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1930 births
1997 deaths
People from Alessandria
Italian male film actors
Italian male voice actors
Italian male stage actors
Italian male television actors
20th-century Italian male actors
University of Florence alumni
Deaths from lung cancer in Lazio
People of Tuscan descent