Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
7/5/1933
Place of Birth
Warsaw, Poland
Also Known As
Irene Montwill Lisa JantiIrena Ludmila Vladimirovna Augustynowic
Lisa Montell
Biography
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Lisa Janti is known as Lisa Montell as a Hollywood actress of the 1950-60s, and then shifted her career to one of advocacy and service to various disadvantaged groups and to her adopted religion, the Bahá'í Faith.
Lisa Janti, known as Lisa Montell as a Hollywood actress of the 1950-60s, was born Irena Ludmila Vladimirovna Augustynowic of Russian-Polish ancestry, and her family fled to Poland before World War II. On arrival in New York they changed their last name to Montwill so she grew up Irene Montwill. They lived in New York and Janti attended the Fio...
Known For
Tomahawk Trail
as Tula
Escape to Burma
as Andora
Finger Man
as Mary Smith (uncredited)
Gaby
as Claire
Daddy Long Legs
as College Girl (uncredited)
The Long Rope
as Alicia Alvarez
Jump Into Hell
as Jacqueline
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
as Paviva
World Without End
as Deena
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
as Diana Martelli
The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca
as Anita Chavez
The Firebrand
as Clarita Vasconcelos
Pearl of the South Pacific
as Momu
Daughter of the Sun God
as Christine
She Gods of Shark Reef
as Mahia
Naked Paradise
as Lanai
The Wild Dakotas
as Ruth Murphy
Career Timeline
1962
1958
77 Sunset Strip
as Pilar Sanchez
Bat Masterson
as Selena Thorn
The Ann Sothern Show
as Maharani
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as Simone
The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca
as Anita Chavez
Frontier Doctor
as Marguerite Lidell
Northwest Passage
as Emily Duren
She Gods of Shark Reef
as Mahia
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
as Paviva
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
as Maria Chamini
1957
1956
1955
Matinee Theater
as Yasmin
Cheyenne
as Rosa
Pearl of the South Pacific
as Momu
The Jane Wyman Show
as Carmelita
Finger Man
as Mary Smith (uncredited)
Daddy Long Legs
as College Girl (uncredited)
Escape to Burma
as Andora
Jump Into Hell
as Jacqueline
The Millionaire
as Paula Wellington