Name
Montagu Love
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1880-03-15
Deathday
1943-05-17 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
Biography
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Montagu Love (15 March 1880 – 17 May 1943), also known as Montague Love, was an English screen, stage and vaudeville actor.
Born Harry Montague Love in Portsmouth, Hampshire, he was the son of Harry Love (b. 1852) and Fanny Louisa Love, née Poad (b. 1856); his father was listed as accountant on the 1881 English Census. Educated in Great Britain, Love began his career as an artist and military correspondent with his first important job as a London newspaper cartoonist. Love honed basic stage talents in London, and in 1913 sailed to the Canada and crossed the border into the United States in November with a road-company production of Cyril Maude's Grumpy.
Usually Love was cast in heartless villain roles. In the 1920s, he played with Rudolph Valentino in The Son of the Sheik, opposite John Barrymore in Don Juan, and appeared with Lillian Gish in 1928's The Wind. He also portrayed 'Colonel Ibbetson' in Forever (1921), the silent film version of Peter Ibbetson. Love was one of the more successful villains in silent films.
One of Love's first sound films was the part-talkie The Mysterious Island co-starring Lionel Barrymore. In 1937, he played Henry VIII in the first talking film version of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, with Errol Flynn. Love played the bigoted Bishop of the Black Canons in The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Flynn, too. However, he also played gruff authoritarian figures, such as Monsieur Cavaignac, who, contrary to history, demands the resignation of those responsible for the Dreyfus coverup, in The Life of Emile Zola (1937), as well as Don Alejandro de la Vega, whose son appears to be a fop but is actually Zorro, in the 1940 version of The Mark of Zorro, starring Tyrone Power.
In 1941, he played a doctor in Shining Victory, which also starred James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Donald Crisp. In 1939's Gunga Din, it is Montagu Love who reads the final stanza of Rudyard Kipling's original poem over the body of the slain Din.
Love's last film to be released, Devotion, was released three years after his death aged 63 in 1943. He was interred at Chapel of the Pines Crematory. His last acting stint was on Wings Over the Pacific (1943).
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- 1917 Forget-Me-Not as Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
- 1917 Rasputin, the Black Monk as Gregory Novik / Rasputin
- 1917 The Volunteer as Self - Cameo Appearance
- 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood as Bishop of the Black Canons
- 1926 Out of the Storm as Timothy Keith
- 1918 The Cross Bearer as Cardinal Mercier
- 1928 The Wind as Roddy
- 1939 Gunga Din as Colonel Weed
- 1926 The Silent Lover as Ben Achmed
- 1942 Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror as General Jerome Lawford
- 1915 The Greater Will as Stuart Watson
- 1917 The Dancer's Peril as Michael Pavloff
- 1940 The Sea Hawk as King Philip II
- 1925 The Ancient Highway as Ivan Hurd
- 1926 Hands Up! as Capt. Edward Logan
- 1942 Lady for a Night as Judge
- 1916 The Gilded Cage as Baron Stefano
- 1966 Torpedo of Doom as Col. White
- 1937 The Prince and the Pauper as Henry VIII
- 1937 Tovarich as M. Courtois
- 1941 The Devil and Miss Jones as Harrison
- 1937 The Prisoner of Zenda as Detchard
- 1937 A Damsel in Distress as Lord Marshmorton
- 1940 The Son of Monte Cristo as Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff
- 1929 Bulldog Drummond as Peterson
- 1925 The Desert's Price as Jim Martin
- 1936 Lloyd's of London as Hawkins
- 1940 North West Mounted Police as Inspector Cabot
- 1946 Devotion as Rev. Brontë
- 1940 The Lone Wolf Strikes as Emil Gorlick
- 1926 The Son of the Sheik as Ghabah
- 1942 The Remarkable Andrew as General George Washington
- 1943 Wings Over the Pacific as Jim Butler
- 1928 The Haunted House as Mad Doctor
- 1940 Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet as Professor Hartmann
- 1930 Outward Bound as Mr. Lingley
- 1928 The Divine Lady as Capt. Hardy
- 1940 Hudson's Bay as Governor D'Argenson
- 1938 If I Were King as General Dudon
- 1939 Rulers of the Sea as Malcolm Grant
- 1933 His Double Life as Duncan Farrel
- 1934 Limehouse Blues as Pug Talbot
- 1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo as Director
- 1918 The Cabaret as Jaffrey Darrel
- 1930 Back Pay as Charles Wheeler
- 1939 We Are Not Alone as Major Millman
- 1929 Charming Sinners as George Whitley
- 1932 The Midnight Lady as Harvey Austin
- 1924 Roulette as Dan Carrington
- 1932 Out of Singapore as Capt. Scar Murray
- 1934 The Expectant Father
- 1937 London by Night as Sir Arthur Herrick
- 1930 Love Comes Along as Sangredo
- 1931 Alexander Hamilton as Thomas Jefferson
- 1937 Parnell as William Ewart Gladstone
- 1941 Shining Victory as Dr. Blake
- 1939 Sons of Liberty as George Washington
- 1938 The Fighting Devil Dogs as General White
- 1936 Sutter's Gold as Capt. Kettleson
- 1930 Kismet as The Jailer
- 1930 Inside the Lines as Governor of Gibraltar
- 1928 The Last Warning as Arthur McHugh
- 1936 The Country Doctor as Sir Basil Crawford
- 1916 The Scarlet Oath as Nicholas Savaroff
- 1918 Stolen Orders as John Le Page
- 1917 Yankee Pluck as Baron Wootchi
- 1923 The Eternal City as Minghelli
- 1927 The Night of Love as Duke de la Garda
- 1929 Synthetic Sin as Brandy Mulane
- 1935 Clive of India as Governor Pigot
- 1927 Good Time Charley as John Hartwell
- 1936 Sing, Baby, Sing as Robert Wilson
- 1936 Reunion as Sir Basil Crawford
- 1919 Our Film Stars
- 1935 Hi, Gaucho! as Hillario Bolario
- 1919 Through the Toils as Noel Graham / Lewis Moffat
- 1927 The King of Kings as Roman Centurion
- 1943 The Constant Nymph as Albert Sanger
- 1940 The Mark of Zorro as Don Alejandro Vega
- 1928 The Hawk's Nest as Dan Daugherty
- 1936 The White Angel as Mr. Bullock
- 1916 The Men She Married as Jerry Trainor
- 1936 Champagne Charlie as Ivan Suchine
- 1936 Frankie and Johnnie as Colonel Brand
- 1934 Menace as Police Inspector
- 1939 Juarez as Jose de Montares
- 1935 The Crusades as The Blacksmith
- 1939 The Man in the Iron Mask as Spanish Ambassador
- 1938 Professor Beware as Professor Schmutz
- 1916 The Hidden Scar as Henry Dalton
- 1916 Husband and Wife as Patrick Alliston
- 1916 A Woman's Way as Oliver Whitney
- 1937 Adventure's End as Capt. Abner Drew
- 1938 Kidnapped as Colonel Whitehead
- 1928 The Noose as Buck Gordon
- 1930 The Cat Creeps as Hendricks
- 1940 All This, and Heaven Too as Marechal Sebastiani
- 1930 A Notorious Affair as Sir Thomas Hanley
- 1930 Double Cross Roads as Gene Dyke
- 1925 The Mad Marriage
- 1926 Don Juan as Count Giano Donati
- 1940 Northwest Passage as Wiseman Clagett
- 1933 At Twelve Midnight as Captain James alias The Fox
- 1940 A Dispatch from Reuters as Delane
- 1920 The Riddle: Woman as Larz Olrik
- 1916 The Devil's Toy as Wilfred Barsley
- 1943 Forever and a Day as Sir John Bunn
- 1929 The Mysterious Island as Falon
- 1929 The Mysterious Island as Mikhail
- 1932 Stowaway as Groder
- 1932 Love Bound as John Randolph
- 1928 Character Studies
- 1921 Love's Redemption as Frederick Kent
- 1932 Vanity Fair as Marquis of Steyne
- 1922 The Beauty Shop as Maldonado
- 1927 Rose of the Golden West as Gen. Vallero
- 1926 Brooding Eyes as Pat Callaghan
- 1930 Reno as Alexander W. Brett
- 1938 The Buccaneer as Admiral Cockburn
- 1932 The Silver Lining as Michael Moore
- 1927 The Tender Hour as Grand Duke Sergei
- 1937 One in a Million as Ratoffsky
- 1921 Forever as Colonel Ibbetson
- 1928 The Devil's Skipper as First Mate
- 1917 The Dormant Power
- 1935 Hollywood Extra Girl as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
- 1914 The Suicide Club as Prince Florizel
- 1924 A Son of the Sahara as Sultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier
- 1921 The Case of Becky as Prof. Balzamo
- 1940 Private Affairs as Noble Bullerton
- 1929 Her Private Life as Sir Bruce Haden
- 1929 A Most Immoral Lady as John Williams
- 1929 The Voice Within
- 1929 Midstream as Dr. Nelson
- 1919 A Broadway Saint as Dick Vernon
- 1922 What's Wrong with the Women? as Arthur Belden
- 1937 The Life of Emile Zola as M. Cavaignac
- 1927 Jesse James as Frederick Mimms
- 1922 Secrets of Paris as The Schoolmaster
- 1932 The Riding Tornado as Walt Corson
- 1942 Tennessee Johnson as Chief Justice Chase
- 1924 Sinners in Heaven as Native Chief
- 1924 Restless Wives as Hugo Cady
- 1929 Silks and Saddles as Walter Sinclair
- 1915 Hearts in Exile
- 1917 The Awakening as Jacques Revilly
- 1920 The World and His Wife as Don Julian
- 1917 The Brand of Satan as Jacques Cordet
- 1918 The Grouch as Donald Graham
- 1915 A Royal Family as Crown Prince of Kurland
- 1916 The Challenge as Quarrier
- 1919 The Hand Invisible as Rodney Graham
- 1919 Three Green Eyes as Allen Granat
- 1917 The Good for Nothing
- 1924 Who's Cheating? as Harrison Fields
- 1924 Love of Women as Bronson Gibbs
- 1920 The Place of Honeymoons as Edward Courtlandt
- 1927 The Haunted Ship as Captain Simon Gant
- 1918 Broken Ties as John Fleming
- 1920 Man's Plaything as Pelton Vab Teel
- 1919 The Rough Neck as John Masters
- 1919 The Steel King as John Blake
- 1923 The Leopardess as Scott Quaigg
- 1927 One Hour of Love as J.W. McKay
- 1915 The Face in the Moonlight
- 1924 Week End Husbands as Thomas Mowry
- 1931 The Lion and the Lamb as Professor Tottie
- 1919 The Quickening Flame as John Steele
- 1926 The Social Highwayman as Ducket Nelson
- 1916 Bought and Paid For as Robert Stafford
- 1916 Friday the 13th as Count Varneloff
- 1921 Shams of Society as Herbert Porter
