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