Mike Monty (October 23, 1936 – August 4, 2006) was an American character actor, born in 1936 in Chattanooga, Tennessee as Michael O'Donahue 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.He made several films with fellow Filipino Exploitation actors Romano Kristoff, James Gaines, Mike Cohen, Bruce Baron, Ann Milhench, Gwendolyn Hung, Ronnie Patterson, and directors Teddy Page (Teddy Chiu) and John Gale (Jun Gallardo). One of his larger roles from the Filipino period was in the Rambo imitation Slash, directed by Gale and starring Kristoff and Hung. Monty also appeared in all of the films Richard Harrison made in the Philippines: as a POW in Intrusion Cambodia AKA Rescue Team, a police chief in Fireback and as a gangster in Blood Debts. The Silver Star films, otherwise fallen into obscurity, have become minor cult items among some bad movie fans.His more well-known films from the 1980s were Italian productions such as The Atlantis Interceptors, directed by Ruggero Deodato and starring former Peyton Place star Christopher Connelly and Tony King, and Captain Yankee, directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Connelly and Lee Van Cleef. Arguably one of Monty's better Philippines-shot films was the American low-budget Vietnam War film Dog Tags for director Romano Scavolini. He also had a very small part in the Fred Williamson vehicle Black Cobra 2.His acting career dwindled with the near demise of the Filipino film industry at the turn of the 90s. Remaining in the Philippines, he kept occasionally appearing in Japanese productions shot in the Philippines and in some exploitation films shot in the archipe
An expatriate American actor, he settled in Italy in the mid-sixties and led a low-key career as a supporting player in many B-movies, including spaghetti westerns and horror movies. His appearances were often uncredited. During the 1970s, he appeared in several soft-porn exploitation movies. In the early eighties, he fell in love with the Philippines and relocated there, where he significantly boosted his career by appearing in many movies shot in the Archipel. Most of his film were B or Z-grade actioners, sometimes locally produced for export.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Anime perse
2006
Video
The Sadist
Mondo Cannibal
2004
Video
Father Schroeder (uncredited)
Rage
1994
Jack's Father
Si Ayala at si Zobel
1994
US Embassy Man
Il labirinto dei sensi
1993
Beyond the Call of Duty
1992
U.S. Soldier (uncredited)
The 13th Mission
1992
Eternal Fist
1992
Fighting Spirit
1992
Drunk
Blowback 2
1991
Wildcat
Blood Chase
1991
Ross Anderson
Sudden Thunder
1990
Mike Gray
Black Cobra 3: The Manila Connection
1990
Capt. Phillips
Last Flight to Hell
1990
Vincent Duggan
Escape to Nowhere
1990
Col. Larson
The Black Cobra 2
1989
Brennan
Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy
1989
Capt. Lavelle
Phantom Soldiers
1989
Col. Barker
The Trident Force
1989
SAS Officer
Above the War
1989
General Stark
Trigon Fire
1989
General Rodriguez
Desert Warrior
1988
Dr. Creo
Sando and the Diplomat's Daughter
1988
Mannigan's Force
1988
Gen. Alfuero (as Mike Monti)
The Firing Line
1988
Daniel Rodriguez
Whiteforce
1988
Stynes
Angel Hill: l'ultima missione
1988
as Mike Monti
Phantom Raiders
1988
Colonel Marshall
Commander
1988
Zombi 3
1988
General Morton (uncredited)
Der Commander
1988
Corporal Stone (uncredited)
Jungle Rats
1988
Gen. Douglas Corad
Tough Cops
1988
Chief Caruso (as Michael Monty)
Un maledetto soldato
1988
uncredited
Movie in Action
1987
The Producer
Dog Tags
1987
Captain Newport
Double Target
1987
Major Waters
Strike Commando
1987
Maj. Harriman (uncredited)
Eye of the Eagle
1987
Col. Stark
Silk
1986
Frampton (as Mike Monte)
No Dead Heroes
1986
Chief of the CIA (as Mike Monte)
Forgotten Warrior
1986
Lt.Col. Harris
War Without End
1986
Ninja Warriors
1985
Capt. Henry Marlowe
Deadringer
1985
Charlie
Kommando Leopard
1985
Major on Train (uncredited)
La leggenda del rubino malese
1985
Professor Lansky
Blood Debts
1985
Bill
Ninja's Force
1984
David Williams
Heroes for Hire
1984
Professor Arlington
Slash
1984
Major Andrew Scott (as Michael Monty)
The Firebird Conspiracy
1984
The Raiders of Atlantis
1983
George (as Mike Monti)
The Last Blood
1983
Captain Bolen (uncredited)
Fireback
1983
Police chief
Die Insel der blutigen Plantage
1983
Camabal
Rescue Team
1983
as Mike Monti
Trois filles dans le vent
1981
Un kidnappeur
Le journal érotique d'une Thailandaise
1980
Mike
Emmanuelle à Cannes
1980
Pleasure Island
1980
Bloodline
1979
Bald-Headed Man
A Very Special Woman
1979
Mike
L'amour chez les poids lourds
1978
uncredited
Proibito erotico
1978
Masseur
Kaput Lager - Gli ultimi giorni delle SS
1977
Max (as Mike Monti)
The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance
1975
Gregory's son - scene in the fisher hut (uncredited)