Tony Montana

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Antonio "Tony" Montana is a major leading character and the villain protagonist of the epic crime drama film Scarface (1983). Originally created by Armitage Trail, the character is portrayed by American actor Al Pacino in the original film and is voiced by André Sogliuzzo in the action-adventure video game Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006). Embodying the possibility of a person rising from the bottom of society to the top, Tony Montana has become a cultural icon, as well as one of the most iconic film characters of all time. In 2008, Montana was named the 27th Greatest Movie Character by Empire magazine. The character is partly based on Tony Camonte, the protagonist of the 1932 film; Camonte was, in turn, an adaptation of Tony Guarino from the 1929 novel, which in turn was a loose fictionalization of real-life Italian-American gangster and businessman Al Capone, who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1899. In contrast to Guarino and Camonte, who were Italian immigrants, Montana is a Cuban...

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