Renzo Montagnani
Birthday: Born in 1930-09-11 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
Deathday: 1997-05-22
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.
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La guerra al tavolo della pace
Character: Joseph Stalin
A RAI television miniseries that reconstructs the Allied Conferences held during the World War II, from Placentia Bay (1941) to Potsdam (1945)....
Il mulino del Po
Character: Il beffa
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Investigatori d'Italia
Character: Le professeur Gustavo Boato
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Le avventure di Pinocchio
Character: Voce del tonno
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company....
I promessi sposi
Character: Don Ferrante
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Alle origini della mafia
Character: Antonio Mastrangelo
Mini series about the origins of the Italian mafia...
Come un uragano
Character: Bill Grant
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Le avventure di Pinocchio
Character: Tonno (voice, uncredited)
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company....
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Character: Farès
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's den...
Number One
Character: Poliziotto
This raw Italian political melodrama investigates the underbelly of Rome in the early '70s, exposing drugs, crime, and sexual scandals....
College Girl on Vacation
Character: Massimo Castaldi
Massimo Castaldi is a social climber married to Violante who comes from a rich family. His relationship with his mistress Laura is jeopardised when the family moves to their summer house on the Pugliese coast. Nevertheless, Massimo seems to find a solution. His raunchy daughter Sonia failed in Italian and he plans to present Laura as a nun who will give Sonia private lessons for her compensation exam. On the other hand, there are two dim-witted criminals, Terenzio and Fulgenzio, who are planning...
The Doctor Prefers Sailors
Character: aspirante suicida
A doctor in a hotel has a lot of problems like a man repeatedly fails to commit suicide, a pair of window washers witness a murder by a hit man, a suspicious wife checks up on her husband who happens to be having an affair with her and many more......
My Friends Act II
Character: Necchi
The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery....
My Friends Act III
Character: Guido Necchi
This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests....
When Women Lost Their Tails
Character: Maluc
Filli and the cavemen from "When Women Had Tails" are living a carefree life inside a dinosaur skeleton. But when conman Ham introduces them to the concept of currency and economics, their lives fall apart. On top of that, Filli starts to fall in love with Ham....
The Nurse on a Military Tour
Character: Colonnello Narciso Fiaschetta
Army Doctor Eva Marini wants to join a regiment to secure equal rights for women. So her commanding officer sends her off to a boot camp led by Renzo Montagnani, where only the most unruly soldiers end up....
The Assassination of Matteotti
Character: Umberto Tancredi
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime....
When Women Had Tails
Character: Maluc
Seven orphan cavemen grow up on a little island all by themselves. After a fire burns all vegetation they set out to find a new place to live....
My Father's Private Secretary
Character: Armando Ponziani
Ponziani Armando, the owner of a thriving chemical industry, lives in a beautiful villa on Lake Como with his wife and his son Franco Ersilia....
The Big Fox
Character: Raffaele Voltore
Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?...
My Wife Goes Back to School
Character: Aristide Buratti
Aristide Buratti is a wealthy grocer married to attractive Valentina. Although they seem to have a happy marriage, Valentina feels herself culturally inferior because she is a high school dropout. Despite her husband's objections, she enrolls at a private boarding school....
State buoni se potete
Character: The devil
Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel....
The Wife on Vacation... The Lover in Town
Character: Andrea Damiani
Andrea Damiani sends his wife Valeria off on a skiing holiday so he can spend time with his demanding mistress, Giulia. Little does he suspect that Valeria is having a rendezvous with a Count she recently met. However, Valeria does not know that 'Count' Giovanni is really just a manager's assistant, namely, Andrea's....
I'm a Zombie, You're a Zombie, She's a Zombie
Character: Becchino
An under-taker (Renzo Montagnini) unintentionally raises three accident victims from the dead while reading out-loud from a zombie pulp novel. He dies of a heart attack, but the zombies then turn around raise HIM with the same book, and the the four of them shamble off looking for food. After unsuccessfully trying to prey on passing motorists, they end up at an inn owned by the aunt of one of the men. After accidentally giving her a heart attack, they take over the inn and try dine on the guests...
Teo
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Teo is a Somali boy living in Rome, where his mother works in service to a wealthy family. Friendly and outgoing, the young man immediately befriends Mimma when she moves with her family to the neighborhood. Years pass and Mimma begins to suffer the violent attentions of her stepfather. She tired that decided to run away together with Teo. But the two teenagers are tracked down and Teo is accused of the violence. Only with the help of his friends will he succeed in proving his innocence....
School Teacher in College
Character: Riccardo Bolzoni
Edwige Fenech stars in this Italian sex-comedy as the new teacher in an all-boys Catholic school. All of the boys desire the chance to "learn" more about their new teacher, but only one student gets the opportunity....
School Teacher in the House
Character: Ferdinando Bonci Marinotti
Luisa De Dominicus is a Milanese piano teacher who moves to Lucca to be with the man she loves: Ferdinando 'Bonci' Marinotti, a city councilman campaigning for mayor on a platform of moral values. She is of the belief that Fernando is single, living with his ailing mother. This, of course, is far from the case. The boys living in her apartment building mistakenly believe Luisa is a call-girl who uses piano teaching as a cover for her true profession, and word soon spreads among the building's d...
C'è un fantasma nel mio letto
Character: Archibald Trenton
A couple (Carati and Cricotti) have to rent a hotel room which is really a haunted house. Well haunted is overstating it. Just old Renzo as a horny ghost who wants to get it on with Carati. Sexual frolics abound, Carati takes baths and has sex and hubby fulfills his role as cuckold....
I Carabbinieri
Character: Generale Nencini
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The Soldier with Great Maneuvers
Character: Colonel Fiaschetta
Doctor Eva Marini takes up a position at an army base to investigate the sexual behavior of the Italian male soldier and soon finds out she's taken on more than she bargained for....
La vedova del Trullo
Character: Nicola Granini
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Where Can You Go Without the Little Vice?
Character: Diogene Colombo
Two detectives are hired to discover if a rich industrialist is having an affair. The detectives pose as a gay butler and as a female cook in order to spy on all of the happenings within the house....
School Teacher Dances... with Her Class
Character: Prof. Martorelli
Girls' dance instructor Claudia Gambetti takes over the boy's gym class after gym teacher Martorelli breaks both his legs owing to one of his student's pranks. Soon both teachers and students are interested in learning more of Claudia's athletic dance moves. Director Fiorontori has made some debts betting on horses and wants Claudia to win a disco competition to balance the school budget, too. When the boys team are invited to face off against their superior Russian counterparts, Claudia calls i...
Scusi, lei è normale?
Character: Gustavo Sparvieri
A moralistic judge declares war on pornography. His gay nephew, who lives with a transvestite, tries to save himself and also protect his friend Ana, a porn actress....
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
Character: Federico Arrighini
Valentina and Giovannino have just got married, but the Honeymoon has gone by and nothing happened between the two. Tension grows and they are about to break up the marriage, until a French tourist satisfies Valentina, while Giovannino regains his virility with his mother in law....
Giocare d'azzardo
Character: Riccardo
While desperately looking for a change, the 40yo Anna - a bored housewife - decides to start gambling. Luck is not on her side though: she loses everything she had, she's almost broke. Caught up by a moment of madness, she steals her daughter’s lifetime savings. She even pawns her own car - , she’s willing to do anything to try to win… Her only wish is for her lotto number to be the winning one… She tries, and tries, and tries… Till the day when that lotto number gets drawn - is it the truth or ...
Scandal in the Family
Character: Carlo
The industrialist Carlo arrives at his villa in the Piacenza area to spend his holidays with his wife Piera and his daughter Francesca. They will soon be joined by their nephew Milo who will woo and seduce all the women of villa including the busty cook Doris lover of uncle Carlo....
The Seven Cervi Brothers
Character: Ferdinando Cervi
The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World War 2....
Man Only Cries for Love
Character: Luigi
Tony and some friends put together a rock band to do some concerts and earn some money. Unfortunately the military service is incumbent, but fortunately the boys will find themselves in the same barracks....
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Character: Captain De Rosa
The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians....
Faustina
Character: Quirino
Faustina, the offspring of a black G.I. and a Roman woman who met during the conflict of World War II, must choose between two Italian men who desperately vie for her attention....
Dreams Die at Dawn
Character: Sergio
Five Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956....
Riavanti… Marsch!
Character: Pietro Bianchi
Five forty-year-old boys, who had been soldiers together, find themselves, once again in uniform, for a forty-day update period, during which they should learn the use of a new NATO-supplied missile....
The Private Lesson
Character: Zio Giulio
Alessandro has a thing or two to learn. Carroll Baker, in her role, is the perfect teacher....
Dal sabato al lunedì
Character: doganiere
The misadventures of Enrico and Sandro: two eighteen year olds looking for their 'first time'....
The Prey
Character:
Colombia. Here lives a couple now destroyed: Betsy, alcoholic and Daniel, spianed, who is in love with an indigenous, the beautiful Nagaina, the beautiful prey with which he plans to escape....
I Carabbinieri
Character: Général Nencini
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Sex Diary
Character: Luca Reali
The Don Juan of a small provincial town saves from suicide a young American girl who falls in love with him. The citizens, after having discovered that the girl is very rich, will do everything to organize the marriage between them....
Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Character: Bepi, il contadino
During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ......
Dove volano i corvi d'argento
Character: Maineddu
Former shepherds return to Sardinia from Milan in order to avenge a brother wantonly killed by bandits. In describing the grinding contrasts between places and personages of old and new Sardinia, director Piero Livi does not falter, photographing faithfully a desolated land, stuck in the past but alienated from traditional beliefs....
Ladies' Doctor
Character: Dott. Franco Giovanardi
Dr. Lo Bianco, debt load, flees abroad and the headquarters avviatissimo study gynecological colleague Giovannaldi. These are adept at gaining the trust of high society and, thanks to the relationship established with the wife of a wealthy manufacturer (enough to get her pregnant), she becomes finance, own the cuckolded husband, a luxury clinic. And there will be a prize for Lobianco....
The Union
Character: Luigi Tamperletti
A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company....
Il casinista
Character: Enrico Marcullo
Pippo Caciotta is an actor looking for a role. His manager wants to renew his repertoire. Caciotta then, with the help of the brother Poldo and a camera, go around the city to find new ideas....
Perché non facciamo l'amore
Character: Dr. Bernardino Livi
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That Movement Which I Love So Much
Character: Il 'marchese' Cecco Ottobuoni
Noblewoman Livia and her friend Marquis Cecco Ottobuoni take revenge against politician Fabrizio Siniscalchi, Livia's lover who dumped her for political reasons, by setting him up with a young prostitute Anna to cause a scandal....
Cassiodorus is the Hardest Praetorian
Character: Cassiodoro
The adventures of the Etruscan Cassiodorus who, after having involuntarily captured a rebel, is named centurion and ingratiates himself with Nero. He tries to take advantage of his role to enrich himself with shady deals, but it goes wrong....
The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire
Character: Ottone
After having challenged the German Ottone to single combat for the hand of Leonza, the bishop's niece, the valiant knight Anselmo da Montebello, leaves for Rome where he must deliver a precious relic to the Pope and obtain a sum of twenty-thousand crowns in order to participate in the third crusade in the Holy Land. He is accompanied by Gian Puccio, his sluggish squire, drawn by the money and by the charm of ... Leonzia....
Peccatori di provincia
Character: Sindaco
Rich and respected Emanuele Lo Curcio dies leaving all his possessions to his natural daughter Domitilla, actually a nun, whose relatives, including his brother and Mayor Angelo Lo Curcio, ignored the existence of hers. The disappointment and anger of his numerous relatives, indebted up to their necks, pushes them to try with all sorts of scams to strip off Domitilla's legacy....
Fiorina the Cow
Character: Compare Menico
Plenty of fun erotic stories in the spirit of the "Decameron", united by one constant hero - unlucky cow Fiorina....
Una bella governante di colore
Character: Nicola Sallusti
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The Family Vice
Character: Giacomo
When Giacomo D'Amato is released from jail he is immediately employed by Magda, in a plot to secure her the heritage of the count. But there are other players in this game too, and Giacomo has his own agenda....
Pierino the Pest to the Rescue
Character: Pier Maria Delle Vedove
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Il marito in vacanza
Character: Antonio Esposito, presidente del S.I.A.M/arcivescovo Peppino
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Cream, Chocolate and... Paprika
Character: Osvaldo Bonifazi
Professor Bonifazi runs a luxury clinic owned by his wife....
Il corpo della ragassa
Character: Pasquale Aguzzi
Ulderico Quario hires as servant a very beautiful young woman Teresa. Ulderico decides to proceed like a new Pygmalion and he sets about teaching her the art of seductions. But Teresa together with Cecchina start using these newfound skills to persuade Ulderico to marry her in order to claim his inheritance....
Una cavalla tutta nuda
Character: Gulfardo de Bardi
The youngsters Folcacchio and Guffardo must bring an embassy to the Bishop of Volterra, and during the trip, the two boys meet the beautiful Gemmata. The woman is a poor peasant who is married to Nicholas. Folcacchio and Guffardo, to have a night of love with the girl, pretends to be magicians who can turn humans into beasts....
A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit
Character: ufficiale della Digos
The Minister of the Interior gets stuck in his ultra-technological car and a rival Member of Parliament tries desperately to help him, while chaos spreads around them....
Same Sea, Same Beach
Character: Il Trivella
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Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
Character: cavalier Aldrovandi (episodio "Il mago")
The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs....
L'assistente sociale tutto pepe...
Character: Gratta
Nadia is a social worker who is trying to keep the residents of a local slum in line. Unfortunately she keeps neglecting her work and fantasizing about a life as a pop-star. When she falls for one of the residents in question, a small time crook called Bel Ami, she ends up an accomplice in a convoluted heist involving a holy Catholic relic....
L'amante tutta da scoprire
Character: Arturo Bonafé
Erika and George are two crooks hired by a rich lady to get rid of her philandering husband....
Per favore, occupati di Amelia
Character: Marcello
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A Wife, Two Friends, Four Lovers
Character: Luigi Frontoni
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L'appuntamento
Character: Adelmo Bartalesi
Adelmo Bartelesi has a colleague desired by all, this Adelaide Picchioni. And Adelmo unable to get an appointment with her. But get home Adelaide begins to present some difficulties: a transition to an old woman who leads him astray, intense traffic, the fortuitous meeting with his wife and family and then an attack of colitis and the meeting with his head, the car that is taken away by police, the meeting with another colleague ... will Adelmo reaching the desired appointment?...
Give Me Five
Character: Libero Battaglini
Two episodes: A roman coachman fulfills the dream of his life and meets the Pope. A priest crazy about dancing wins the first prize in a contest....
A Policewoman in New York
Character: Maccarone
A Texan travels to Rome to hire two police officers to impersonate a mobster's girlfriend and his most ruthless hitman....
Intimate Relations
Character: Accountant
The entrepreneur Franco, a wealthy man, finds himself going through a period of profound crisis with his wife Laura and things get complicated when he meets his young and beautiful daughter-in-law, Flora. Passion sparks between the two but the girl's husband certainly doesn't sit idle, starting a relationship with her sister-in-law. Each member of the family ends up being involved in affairs and betrayals, with unpredictable consequences....
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Character: voce del tonno
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company....
Lovers and Liars
Character: Omero
An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover....
Rimini, Rimini: A Year Later
Character: Luciano Ambrosi
Four episodes set on the beaches of Rimini: a womanizer pretends to be homosexual in order to gain the favors of a beautiful woman who ignores him. A mature beachgoer suffers from indigestion. A businessman unknowingly finances his wife's infidelities. Two wives from the south are forced to exchange partners....
Massacre in Rome
Character: Police Chief "Questore" Pietro Caruso
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler....
I carabbimatti
Character: matto
Two fools eventually become Carabinieri, and jump from a trash situation to another....
Lend Me Your Wife
Character: Mario Bonotto
Alex Fortini, a transplant to Milan, lives behind his lover who owns an advertising agency. When his wife, who had left five years ago, reappears, fearing that she will want to ask him for a divorce and alimony, he unwittingly gets into a lot of trouble....
La giacca verde
Character: Romualdi
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Jus primae noctis
Character: Gandolfo
Ariberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone....
Life of Dante
Character: Lapo Gianni
3-part biopic of Dante Alighieri made for Italian public television. Mixes reenacted scenes of Dante's public life with readings of his poems, expository narration, footage of modern-day Florence and images of old paintings and documents....
The Libertine
Character: Fabrizio
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality....
I carabbimatti
Character: Dallas (uncredited)
Two fools eventually become Carabinieri, and jump from a trash situation to another....
Donna... cosa si fa per te
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The Weapon, the Hour, the Motive
Character: Inspector Boito
Don Giorgio, a handsome young priest and teacher in a convent, is involved with two lovers: Orchidea and Giulia. When he repents and vows to return to the Church, he is savagely beaten to death. Not long after, Giulia has her throat slashed. Inspector Boito falls in love with and prepared to marry Orchidea, who is also the main suspect. The key to solving the case seems to lie with an inquisitive boy called Ferruccio, who is kept locked up and drugged. He witnessed one of the murders, but ...
Bankers Also Have Souls
Character: L'émir Fayçal de Krator
A bank clerk is given an unusual retirement gift, a high class call girl. Unaware that he has been 'set up' by colleagues the man goes with the girl to Venice where he enjoys his new found virility....
Viaggio di nozze all'italiana
Character: Nicola
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