Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1930-09-11
Day of Death
1997-05-22
Place of Birth
Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
Renzo Montagnani
Biography
Renzo Montagnani (September 11, 1930 – May 22, 1997) was an Italian actor and voice actor. 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. In 1959, Montagnani married Eileen Jarvis, who was a member of the Bluebell Girls. In 1963, they had one son, Daniele. 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. Source: Article "Renzo Montagnani" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography (86)
Teo
1997
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
1990
Rimini, Rimini: A Year Later
1988
The Big Fox
1988
My Friends Act III
1985
Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
1983
A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit
1983
Same Sea, Same Beach
1983
State buoni se potete
1983
My Friends Act II
1982
Bankers Also Have Souls
1982
Pierino the Pest to the Rescue
1982
Giocare d'azzardo
1982
The Doctor Prefers Sailors
1981
