Renzo Montagnani


Renzo Montagnani 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, but he later switched to the commedia all'italiana with his roles in the last two chapters of the Amici miei series. 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 as SergioDal sabato al lunedi as custom manHoneymoon, Italian Style as NicolaThe Seven Cervi Brothers as Ferdinando CerviDonne, botte e bersaglieri as LuigiFaustina as QuirinoLa matriarca as FabrizioMetello as Poldo Salani When Women Had Tails as Maluc Tre ipotesi sulla morte di Pinelli Mazzabubù... Quante corna stanno quaggiù? as Bepi, the farmerUna cavalla tutta nuda as Gulfardo de BardiIl sindacalista as Luigi TamperlettiJus primae noctis as GandolfoThe Weapon, the Hour & the Motive as commissioner Franco BoitoIl prode Anselmo e il suo scudiero as OttoneFiorina la vacca as Compare MenicoNumber One as VinciThe Assassination of Matteotti as Umberto TancrediMassacre in Rome as police chief Pietro CarusoThe Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob as colonel FarèsThe Prey as Daniel LesterScandal in the Family as CarloThe Family Vice as GiacomoLa nuora giovane as AccountantPrivate Lessons as Giulio - uncle of AlessandroThe Virgin Wife as Uncle Federico ArrighiniMy Friends as Giorgio Perozzi Quel movimento che mi piace tanto as Il 'marquis' Cecco OttobuoniSex Diary as Luca Reali