Renzo Montagnani
Renzo Montagnani | |
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Born | Alessandria, Italy | September 11, 1930
Died | May 22, 1997 Rome, Italy | (aged 66)
Occupation | Actor, voice actor |
Years active | 1961–1997 |
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Spouse(s) | Eileen Jarvis (m. 1959) |
Children | 1 |
Renzo Montagnani (September 11, 1930 – May 22, 1997) was an Italian actor and voice actor.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3]
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.[citation needed]
Personal life[]
In 1959, Montagnani married Eileen Jarvis, who was a member of the Bluebell Girls. In 1963, they had one son, Daniele.[citation needed]
Death[]
Montagnani died in Rome of lung cancer on 22 May 1997 at the age of 66. He was buried in England.[4] His son Daniele, died of cancer one year later and was buried alongside his father.[citation needed]
Filmography[]
- Dreams Die at Dawn (1961) as Sergio
- (1962) as custom man
- Honeymoon, Italian Style (1966) as Nicola
- I sette fratelli Cervi (1968) as Ferdinando Cervi
- (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
- (1970, Short)
- (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
- (1973) as Police Man
- The Assassination of Matteotti (1973) as Umberto Tancredi
- Massacre in Rome (1973) as police chief Pietro Caruso
- (1973) as colonel Farès
- (1974) as Daniel Lester
- Peccati in famiglia (1975, regia di ) as Carlo
- (1975) as Giacomo
- (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
- (1976) as Armando Ponziani
- Donna... cosa si fa per te (1976) as Francesco 'Cecco' Balducci
- (1976)
- (1977) as Dr. Franco Giovanardi
- (1977) as Angelo Lo Curcio / Sindaco-Mayor
- L'appuntamento (1977) as Adelmo Bartalesi
- (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
- (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
- (1979) as Nicola /Prof. Luigi Granini
- Scusi, lei è normale? (1979) as Gustavo Sparvieri
- (1979) as undertaker
- (1979) as Lieutenant Pietro Bianchi
- (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
- (1980) as Mario Bonotto
- La liceale al mare con l'amica di papà (1980) as Massimo Castaldi
- (1980) as Luigi Frontoni
- Il casinista (1980) as Enrico Marcullo
- (1981) as Arturo Bonafé
- C'è un fantasma nel mio letto (1981) as Baron Sir Archibald Trenton
- (1981) as General Nencini
- (1981) as Marcello
- Mia moglie torna a scuola (1981) as Aristide Buratti
- (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'
- (1981) as Prof. Esposito / Cardinal Peppino
- I carabbimatti (1981) as Dallas (uncredited)
- (1981) as Osvaldo Bonifazi
- (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
- (1983) as Il Trivella
- (1983) as Don Giovanni
- Amici miei atto III (1985) as Guido Necchi
- (1988)
- Il volpone (1988) as Raffaele Voltore
- Rimini Rimini - Un anno dopo (1988) as Luciano Ambrosi ("La scelta")
- (1992)
References[]
- ^ "Renzo Montagnani's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ "Renzo Montagnani". MYmovies. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ "Chi era Renzo Montagnani?". chi-e.com (in Italian). Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ "È morto Renzo Montagnani, Fu uno degli 'Amici Miei'" (in Italian). ricerca.repubblica.it. 24 May 1997. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
External links[]
Media related to Renzo Montagnani at Wikimedia Commons
- 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 cancer in Lazio
- Deaths from lung cancer
- People of Tuscan descent