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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 13, 1926
Died
May 12, 1992
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Lenny Passaforo
Lenny Montana
0.6 Popularity
Biography
Tall and solidly built, this Italian-American professional wrestler turned actor was born Lenny Passaforo in Brooklyn, New York, and is best remembered for his first on-screen role as the not too bright but ever loyal bodyguard Luca Brasi in The Godfather (1972). Montana didn't get a lot of screen time before being eliminated by the henchmen of opposing gangster Al Lettieri with a garrote and a knife; however, he caught the eye of casting agents and over the next ten years racked up roles in 16 movies. Usually cast as "muscle for hire", he was equally good at playing the intimidating thug or a buffoonish hoodlum, such as in Battle Creek Brawl (1980) and The Jerk (1979). His last film appearance was in the B-thriller Blood Song (1982), which he also co-wrote. He died in May 1992 of a heart attack while in Italy.
Known For
4.8
Skipper
Blood Song
1982
4.5
Coach
Pandemonium
1982
5.3
Jake
Evilspeak
1981
8.9
Luca Brasi (uncredited)
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
1981
6.2
Jerome
...All the Marbles
1981
7.3
Marquis' Bodyguard
Magnum, P.I.
1980
6.0
The Geek
Below the Belt
1980
5.9
John
The Big Brawl
1980
6.3
Whacko
Defiance
1980
6.9
Con Man
The Jerk
1979
Credits
Blood Song
as Skipper
1982
4.8
Pandemonium
as Coach
1982
4.5
Evilspeak
as Jake
1981
5.3
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
as Luca Brasi (uncredited)
1981
8.9
...All the Marbles
as Jerome
1981
6.2
Magnum, P.I.
as Marquis' Bodyguard
1980
7.3
Below the Belt
as The Geek
1980
6.0
The Big Brawl
as John
1980
5.9
Defiance
as Whacko
1980
6.3
The Jerk
as Con Man
1979
6.9
Seven
as The Kahuna
1979
5.7
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
as Brick
1978
4.0
Matilda
as Hood #1
1978
5.2
Fingers
as Luchino
1978
6.3
Contract on Cherry Street
as Phil Lombardi
1977
6.3
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
as Luca Brasi (uncredited)
1977
8.6
Patty
as The Racketeer
1976
0.0
Strike Force
as Italian Dockworker
1975
5.6
Kojak
as McCoy
1973
7.0
The Funny Face of the Godfather
as Saro
1973
2.0
Search
1972
6.9
The Godfather
as Luca Brasi
1972
8.7
Change of Habit
as Grocer (uncredited)
1969
5.3
🎬
Patty
as The Racketeer
N/A
0.0