Biography

Renzo Montagnani was born on September 11, 1930 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), When Women Had Tails (1970) and When Women Lost Their Tails (1972). He died on May 22, 1997 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Dubbed Thomas O'Malley (renamed Romeo) in the Italian version of The Aristocats (1970).

Renzo Montagnani was an Italian actor and worked intensively as dubber and voice actor. He dubbed actors such as Michel Piccoli, Charles Bronson and Philippe Noiret for the Italian version of movies.

He 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 died in Rome of lung cancer at the age of 66. He was buried in England. His son Daniele, died also of cancer in 2004 and was buried alongside his father.

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.