Mike Monty (October 23, 1936 â€" August 4, 2006) was an American
character actor, born in 1936 in Chattanooga, Tennessee as Michael
O'Donoghue but he changed his name to Mike Monty late in life.He left
the United States for Italy in the early 1960s, where he started a
modest film career as a supporting actor, appearing mostly in
spaghetti westerns, sexploitation and horror. Many of his appearances
were uncredited. Some were credited as Mike Monti, Michael Monty or
Mike Monte.One of the more infamous films he acted in during the 70s
was the Nazi-exploitation epic Achtung! The Desert Tigers!, directed
by Paolo Solvay and starring fellow American expatriates Richard
Harrison and Gordon Mitchell (with whom Monty shared an apartment for
several years in Italy). Solvay was notorious for recycling scenes
from film to film. Achtung! The Desert Tigers was no exception to the
rule, featuring footage from his World War II epic Quando Suana la
Campana AKA When the Bell Tolls (1970).In the early 1980s Monty
relocated to the Philippines, where he began a very prolific career in
Z-movie actioners, many of them made for Silver Star Film Company
(called Kinavesa in the Philippines), produced by K.Y. Lim. Over the
decade, he appeared in countless low-budget Filipino features and some
Italian productions shot in the archipelago, often cast as a military
officer or a policeman, in parts very similar to Richard Crenna in
First Blood. Although he wasn't a great actor, Monty was thin,
straight-postured and gaunt, which translated well to military
characters.
character actor, born in 1936 in Chattanooga, Tennessee as Michael
O'Donoghue but he changed his name to Mike Monty late in life.He left
the United States for Italy in the early 1960s, where he started a
modest film career as a supporting actor, appearing mostly in
spaghetti westerns, sexploitation and horror. Many of his appearances
were uncredited. Some were credited as Mike Monti, Michael Monty or
Mike Monte.One of the more infamous films he acted in during the 70s
was the Nazi-exploitation epic Achtung! The Desert Tigers!, directed
by Paolo Solvay and starring fellow American expatriates Richard
Harrison and Gordon Mitchell (with whom Monty shared an apartment for
several years in Italy). Solvay was notorious for recycling scenes
from film to film. Achtung! The Desert Tigers was no exception to the
rule, featuring footage from his World War II epic Quando Suana la
Campana AKA When the Bell Tolls (1970).In the early 1980s Monty
relocated to the Philippines, where he began a very prolific career in
Z-movie actioners, many of them made for Silver Star Film Company
(called Kinavesa in the Philippines), produced by K.Y. Lim. Over the
decade, he appeared in countless low-budget Filipino features and some
Italian productions shot in the archipelago, often cast as a military
officer or a policeman, in parts very similar to Richard Crenna in
First Blood. Although he wasn't a great actor, Monty was thin,
straight-postured and gaunt, which translated well to military
characters.
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