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Joe Bonomo is a Actor and Stunts American born on 25 december 1901
Joseph "Joe" Bonomo (December 25, 1901 – March 28, 1978) was a famous American weight lifter, strongman, film stunt performer and actor.
He began as a stunt double soon doubling for Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame then playing a variety of roles. He lost the role of Tarzan in Tarzan the Mighty when he injured himself before shooting,.
When sound came, Bonomo's strong Brooklyn accent precluded him from most film roles but he reportedly retained his fame in magazine adverts offering bodybuilding by mail order.
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Bonomo was born to Esther and Albert Bonomo, Sephardic Jewish immigrants from Izmir. As a child Bonomo built himself into a strongman winning the "Mr Modern Apollo" contest of 1921 where the prizes included a ten-week movie contract.He began as a stunt double soon doubling for Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame then playing a variety of roles. He lost the role of Tarzan in Tarzan the Mighty when he injured himself before shooting,.
When sound came, Bonomo's strong Brooklyn accent precluded him from most film roles but he reportedly retained his fame in magazine adverts offering bodybuilding by mail order.
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Island of Lost Souls (1932)
, 1h10Directed by Erle C. Kenton
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on science fiction novels, Cyberpunk films
Actors Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen Burke, Stanley Fields
Roles Beast (uncredited)
Rating73%
Shipwrecked traveler Edward Parker (Richard Arlen) is rescued by a freighter delivering animals to an isolated South Seas island owned by Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton). When Parker objects to the freighter's captain (Stanley Fields) mistreating M'ling (Tetsu Komai), an odd-looking passenger, the captain tosses Parker overboard into Montgomery (Arthur Hohl) and Moreau's boat.
The Last Frontier (1932)
, 3h33Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Lon Chaney, Jr., Dorothy Gulliver, Francis X. Bushman, Jr., William Desmond, Joe Bonomo, Pete Morrison
Roles Joe, one of Morris' henchman. Listed as "Kit Gordon" in the credits.
Rating61%
The outlaw "Tiger" Morris attempts to drive setters off their land in order to acquire the local gold deposits. A crusading newspaper editor, Tom Kirby, becomes the masked vigilante, The Black Ghost, to stop him.
Battling with Buffalo Bill (1931)
, 3h37Directed by Ray Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Tom Tyler, Lucile Browne, William Desmond, Francis Ford, Rex Bell, George Regas
Roles Joe Brady
Rating58%
The plot is a variation on the standard B-Western "Land Grab" plot: Gold has been discovered in the area and gambler Jim Rodney intends to make sole claim to it by pushing the rightful owners off the land and taking it for himself. To do so he has his henchmen kill an Indian woman, provoking attacks from her tribe. This brings Buffalo Bill and the United States Cavalry into the town. Buffalo Bill proceeds to defeat Rodney and his schemes.
Heroes of the Flames (1931)
Directed by Robert Hill
Origin USA
Themes Disaster films
Actors Tim McCoy, Walter Brennan, Joe Bonomo, Bruce Cabot, Gayne Whitman, William Gould
Roles a Henchman
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The King of the Kongo (1929)
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Jacqueline Logan, Walter Miller, Richard Tucker, Boris Karloff, Larry Steers, Harry Todd
Roles Gorilla
Rating57%
Independently, the two protagonists, Diana Martin and Secret Service agent Larry Trent are searching the jungle for missing relatives, her father and his brother. Tied up in this plot are ivory smugglers and a lost treasure hidden in the jungle.
The Phantom of the North (1929)
Directed by Harry S. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Western
Actors Edith Roberts, Kathleen Key, Donald Keith, Boris Karloff, Joe Bonomo, Josef Swickard
Roles Pierre Blanc
The Golden Stallion (1927)
Directed by William Witney, Harry S. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Roy Rogers, Chester Conklin, Joe Bonomo, Billy Franey, Tom London, Molly Malone
Roles Ewart Garth
Two men search for a fabled gold mine. The clue to the mine's location is branded on the neck of a wild horse, "White Fury", and the men battle each other to capture the horse first.
Heroes of the Wild (1927)
Directed by Harry S. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Jack Hoxie, Josephine Hill, Joe Bonomo, Helen Gibson, Linda Loredo, Emily Gerdes
Roles John Kemp
A young woman is heir to a large fortune, but the key to finding it is on the leg markings of a horse called "The Ghost of the Gauchos". Unfortunately, the woman's uncle--her legal guardian--has his own plans for her fortune, and they don't include sharing it with her.
The Sea Tiger (1927)
Directed by John Francis Dillon
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Milton Sills, Mary Astor, Larry Kent, Alice White, Kate Price, Arthur Stone
Roles Sebastiano
You Never Know Women (1926)
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Florence Vidor, Lowell Sherman, Clive Brook, Eugene Pallette, El Brendel, Roy Stewart
Roles The Strong Man
Rating66%
The Great Circus Mystery (1925)
Directed by Jay Marchant
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Circus films
Actors Joe Bonomo, Louise Lorraine, Carmen Phillips, Monte Montague, Frank Coghlan, Jr.
Roles Welles 'Red' Landow
Rating55%
Perils of the Wild (1925)
Directed by Francis Ford
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Joe Bonomo, Jack Mower, Alfred Allen, William Dyer, Philip Ford, Boris Karloff
Roles Frederick Robinson. Bonomo performed his own stunts. He fractured his leg and received an injured sacroiliac during filming.
Rating55%
The Iron Man (serial) (1924)
Directed by Jay Marchant
Origin USA
Actors Margaret Morris, Luciano Albertini, Joe Bonomo, Lola Todd, Jean De Briac, William Welsh
Roles Gaston La Rue
Wolves of the North (1924)
Directed by William Duncan
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors William Duncan, Edith Johnson, Joseph W. Girard, Esther Ralston, Clark Comstock, Harry Woods
Roles Pierre DuPree
Rating34%
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Island of Lost Souls (1932)
, 1h10Directed by Erle C. Kenton
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on science fiction novels, Cyberpunk films
Actors Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen Burke, Stanley Fields
Roles Stunts
Rating73%
Shipwrecked traveler Edward Parker (Richard Arlen) is rescued by a freighter delivering animals to an isolated South Seas island owned by Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton). When Parker objects to the freighter's captain (Stanley Fields) mistreating M'ling (Tetsu Komai), an odd-looking passenger, the captain tosses Parker overboard into Montgomery (Arthur Hohl) and Moreau's boat.