Montagu Love
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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).
Known for
The Prince and the Pauper
Henry VIII
North West Mounted Police
Inspector Cabot
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Bishop of the Black Canons
The Desert's Price
Jim Martin
One in a Million
Ratoffsky
Forever
Colonel Ibbetson
The Volunteer
Self - Cameo Appearance
Devotion
Rev. Brontë
A Damsel in Distress
Lord Marshmorton
Stolen Orders
John Le Page
The King of Kings
Roman Centurion
Lloyd's of London
Hawkins
The Crusades
The Blacksmith
The Good for Nothing
The Eternal City
Minghelli
Juarez
Jose de Montares
Bulldog Drummond
Peterson
Northwest Passage
Wiseman Clagett
The Mark of Zorro
Don Alejandro Vega
A Notorious Affair
Sir Thomas Hanley
Menace
Police Inspector
Three Green Eyes
Allen Granat
The Hidden Scar
Henry Dalton
The Sea Hawk
King Philip II
The Last Warning
Arthur McHugh
Wings Over the Pacific
Jim Butler
The Hand Invisible
Rodney Graham
Forget-Me-Not
Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
The Remarkable Andrew
General George Washington
The Silver Lining
Michael Moore
His Double Life
Duncan Farrel
The White Angel
Mr. Bullock
Out of Singapore
Capt. Scar Murray
The Hawk's Nest
Dan Daugherty
A Dispatch from Reuters
Delane
The Divine Lady
Capt. Hardy
Private Affairs
Noble Bullerton
The Life of Emile Zola
M. Cavaignac
Shining Victory
Dr. Blake
The Noose
Buck Gordon
Rulers of the Sea
Malcolm Grant
The Devil and Miss Jones
Harrison
The Mysterious Island
Falon
The Mysterious Island
Mikhail
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Professor Hartmann
Gunga Din
Colonel Weed
Sons of Liberty
George Washington
The Cabaret
Jaffrey Darrel
Back Pay
Charles Wheeler
Champagne Charlie
Ivan Suchine
The Constant Nymph
Albert Sanger
Kidnapped
Colonel Whitehead
Sutter's Gold
Capt. Kettleson
We Are Not Alone
Major Millman
The Fighting Devil Dogs
General White
The Voice Within
The Buccaneer
Admiral Cockburn
A Royal Family
Crown Prince of Kurland
Professor Beware
Professor Schmutz
The Haunted House
Mad Doctor
Clive of India
Governor Pigot
Adventure's End
Capt. Abner Drew
The Riddle: Woman
Larz Olrik
Reunion
Sir Basil Crawford
The Son of Monte Cristo
Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff
Love Comes Along
Sangredo
Through the Toils
Noel Graham / Lewis Moffat
Brooding Eyes
Pat Callaghan
Reno
Alexander W. Brett
The Wind
Roddy
Don Juan
Count Giano Donati
Lady for a Night
Judge
Hudson's Bay
Governor D'Argenson
The Night of Love
Duke de la Garda
Love of Women
Bronson Gibbs
A Son of the Sahara
Sultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier
If I Were King
General Dudon
The Prisoner of Zenda
Detchard
Tennessee Johnson
Chief Justice Chase
Vanity Fair
Marquis of Steyne
The Ancient Highway
Ivan Hurd
Sing, Baby, Sing
Robert Wilson
The Man in the Iron Mask
Spanish Ambassador
Hi, Gaucho!
Hillario Bolario
Tovarich
M. Courtois
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Emil Gorlick
The Case of Becky
Prof. Balzamo
Synthetic Sin
Brandy Mulane
Broken Ties
John Fleming
Forever and a Day
Sir John Bunn
Secrets of Paris
The Schoolmaster
Inside the Lines
Governor of Gibraltar
Frankie and Johnnie
Colonel Brand
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Director
Kismet
The Jailer
Roulette
Dan Carrington
Torpedo of Doom
Col. White
Double Cross Roads
Gene Dyke
Outward Bound
Mr. Lingley
Rose of the Golden West
Gen. Vallero
The Mad Marriage
Parnell
William Ewart Gladstone
The Devil's Skipper
First Mate
All This, and Heaven Too
Marechal Sebastiani
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
General Jerome Lawford
Good Time Charley
John Hartwell
Love's Redemption
Frederick Kent
Hearts in Exile
Stowaway
Groder
Hands Up!
Capt. Edward Logan
Jesse James
Frederick Mimms
Rasputin, the Black Monk
Gregory Novik / Rasputin
The Dancer's Peril
Michael Pavloff
Limehouse Blues
Pug Talbot
The Gilded Cage
Baron Stefano
Love Bound
John Randolph
Restless Wives
Hugo Cady
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
The Son of the Sheik
Ghabah
The Country Doctor
Sir Basil Crawford
The Haunted Ship
Captain Simon Gant
The Riding Tornado
Walt Corson
Charming Sinners
George Whitley
A Broadway Saint
Dick Vernon
The Tender Hour
Grand Duke Sergei
London by Night
Sir Arthur Herrick
The Cat Creeps
Hendricks
A Most Immoral Lady
John Williams
Husband and Wife
Patrick Alliston
Out of the Storm
Timothy Keith
The Brand of Satan
Jacques Cordet
At Twelve Midnight
Captain James alias The Fox
Our Film Stars
Her Private Life
Sir Bruce Haden
The Devil's Toy
Wilfred Barsley
The Midnight Lady
Harvey Austin
Hollywood Extra Girl
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
The Grouch
Donald Graham
What's Wrong with the Women?
The Silent Lover
Ben Achmed
The World and His Wife
Don Julian
Midstream
Dr. Nelson
A Woman's Way
Oliver Whitney
The Awakening
Jacques Revilly
The Suicide Club
Prince Florizel
The Greater Will
Stuart Watson
The Scarlet Oath
Nicholas Savaroff
The Dormant Power
The Cross Bearer
Cardinal Mercier
The Men She Married
Jerry Trainor
Who's Cheating?
Harrison Fields
The Place of Honeymoons
Edward Courtlandt
Yankee Pluck
Baron Wootchi
Silks and Saddles
Walter Sinclair
Sinners in Heaven
Native Chief
The Beauty Shop
Maldonado
The Challenge
Quarrier