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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).
Bishop of the Black Canons
Duncan Farrel
Spanish Ambassador
Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff
Colonel Weed
Roman Centurion
General Jerome Lawford
King Philip II
Ghabah
Henry VIII
Harrison
Don Alejandro Vega
Wiseman Clagett
Lord Marshmorton
Inspector Cabot
The Blacksmith
M. Cavaignac
Jose de Montares
Sir John Bunn
Roddy
Marechal Sebastiani
Detchard
Chief Justice Chase
Rev. Brontë
M. Courtois
Governor Pigot
Peterson
William Ewart Gladstone
General Dudon
Professor Hartmann
Albert Sanger
Admiral Cockburn
Baron Wootchi
Robert Wilson
Count Giano Donati
Capt. Abner Drew
Mr. Bullock
Mikhail
Falon
Governor D'Argenson
Colonel Whitehead
Sultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier
Minghelli
Hawkins
Sir Basil Crawford
Alexander W. Brett
General George Washington
Ivan Hurd
Ratoffsky
Groder
Duke de la Garda
Major Millman
Professor Schmutz
Capt. Scar Murray
Judge
Maldonado
Michael Moore
Noble Bullerton
Hugo Cady
Emil Gorlick
Ivan Suchine
General White
Capt. Kettleson
Jacques Revilly
Police Inspector
Mr. Lingley
Sir Basil Crawford
Marquis of Steyne
Pat Callaghan
Governor of Gibraltar
Donald Graham
George Whitley
The Jailer
Capt. Hardy
Buck Gordon
Thomas Jefferson
Henry Dalton
Colonel Brand
Arthur McHugh
Charles Wheeler
Delane
Director
George Washington
Native Chief
Prof. Balzamo
Grand Duke Sergei
First Mate
Dan Carrington
Jim Butler
Gene Dyke
Frederick Mimms
Col. White
Prince Florizel
Bronson Gibbs
Colonel Ibbetson
Sir Thomas Hanley
Gen. Vallero
Walt Corson
John Williams
Baron Stefano
Don Julian
Malcolm Grant
Hillario Bolario
John Hartwell
John Le Page
Sangredo
Dr. Blake
Self - Cameo Appearance
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
The Schoolmaster
Pug Talbot
Brandy Mulane
Jaffrey Darrel
Mad Doctor
Ben Achmed
John Randolph
John Fleming
Sir Arthur Herrick
Sir Bruce Haden
Dr. Nelson
Timothy Keith
Cardinal Mercier
Michael Pavloff
Nicholas Savaroff
Patrick Alliston
Oliver Whitney
Dan Daugherty
Frederick Kent
Captain James alias The Fox
Edward Courtlandt
Rodney Graham
Harvey Austin
Walter Sinclair
Allen Granat
Hendricks
Jim Martin
Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
Capt. Edward Logan
Crown Prince of Kurland
Quarrier
Dick Vernon
Stuart Watson
Wilfred Barsley
Larz Olrik
Noel Graham / Lewis Moffat
Captain Simon Gant
Harrison Fields
Jerry Trainor
Gregory Novik / Rasputin
Jacques Cordet