Monte Blue
Acting • Born 1887-01-10 – Died 1963-02-18
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Monte Blue (January 11, 1887 – February 18, 1963) was a movie actor who began his career as a romantic leading man in the silent film era, and later progressed to character roles. Blue was born as Gerard Montgomery Bluefeather in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father was half French, half Cherokee Indian. One of five children, his father died and his mother could not raise five children alone. Along with another brother, they both admitted to the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home. This did not stop him working his way through to Purdue University. When growing up, Blue built up his physique to become a football player (he grew to six feet three inches tall). He not only played football, but he was also a fireman, railroad worker, coal miner, cowpuncher, ranch hand, circus rider, lumberjack, and finally, a day laborer at the studios of D. W. Griffith. He had no theatrical experience when he came to the screen. In his first movie, The Birth of a Nation (1915), he was a stuntman and an extra in the movie. In his next movie, he starred in another small part in the movie, Intolerance (1916). Gradually moving to supporting roles for both D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, Blue earned his breakthrough role as Danton in Orphans of the Storm, starring sisters, Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish. Then he rose to stardom as a rugged romantic lead along with top leading actresses such as Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, and Norma Shearer. His most prolific female screen partner was Marie Prevost with whom he made several films in the mid 20s at Warner Brothers. Blue's finest silent screen performance was as the alcoholic doctor who finds paradise in MGM's White Shadows in the South Seas (1928). Blue became one of the few silent stars to survive the talkie revolution. However, he lost his investments in the stock market crash of 1929. He rebuilt his career as a character actor, working until his retirement in 1954. One of his more memorable roles was the sheriff in Key Largo. He divorced his first wife in 1923 and married Tova Jansen in 1924. He had two children, Barbara Ann and Richard Monte. During the later part of his life, Monte Blue was an active Mason and the advance man for the Hamid-Morton Shrine Circus; while on business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he had a heart attack because of complications from influenza, dying at age 76. Monte Blue has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6286 Hollywood Blvd. Description above from the Wikipedia article Monte Blue, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
233 credits
Possessed
Movie • 1947
Norris
Key Largo
Movie • 1948
Sheriff Ben Wade
Ride, Ranger, Ride
Movie • 1936
Duval, aka Chief Tavibo
The Hidden Hand
Movie • 1942
Matthews, the undertaker (uncredited)
Main Street
Movie • 1923
Dr. Will Kennicott
Riders of the Night
Movie • 1918
'The Killer' Jed
My Old Kentucky Home
Movie • 1922
Richard Goodloe
Backfire
Movie • 1950
Det. Sgt. Pluther (uncredited)
The Squaw Man
Movie • 1918
Happy
The Mask of Dimitrios
Movie • 1944
Abdul Dhris
Three Desperate Men
Movie • 1951
Marshal Pete Coleman
Life with Father
Movie • 1947
The Policeman
Rose of Cimarron
Movie • 1952
Lone Eagle
Cheyenne
Movie • 1947
Timberline
Apache
Movie • 1954
Geronimo
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Movie • 1935
Hamzulla Khan
Shadow of a Woman
Movie • 1946
Mike, Police Lieutenant
This Side of the Law
Movie • 1950
The Sheriff
Bad Man of Deadwood
Movie • 1941
Sheriff Jordan
Flaxy Martin
Movie • 1949
Joe, Detective
Tiger Rose
Movie • 1929
Devlin
Life in Hollywood No. 4
Movie • 1927
A Perfect Crime
Movie • 1921
Wally Griggs
Song of the Gringo
Movie • 1936
Sheriff
Homicide
Movie • 1949
George, Sheriff
Across the Pacific
Movie • 1942
Dan Morton
Trial by Trigger
Movie • 1944
Brewster (uncredited)
White Shadows in the South Seas
Movie • 1928
Dr. Matthew Lloyd
Young Bill Hickok
Movie • 1940
Marshal Evans
Born to the West
Movie • 1937
Bart Hammond
Hangman's Knot
Movie • 1952
Maxwell
The Affairs of Anatol
Movie • 1921
Abner Elliott
The Romance of Tarzan
Movie • 1918
Juan
The Marriage Circle
Movie • 1924
Dr. Franz Braun
Hands Up
Movie • 1918
Northern Pursuit
Movie • 1943
Jean
Colorado Territory
Movie • 1949
U.S. Marshal (uncredited)
Truck Busters
Movie • 1943
Scrappy O'Brien
The Black Diamond Express
Movie • 1927
Dan Foster
Wagon Wheels
Movie • 1934
Kenneth Murdock
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Movie • 1935
Guerd Larey
Nevada
Movie • 1935
Clem Dillon
Bells of San Fernando
Movie • 1947
Governor Don Sebastian Fernando
Treachery Rides the Range
Movie • 1936
Colonel Drummond
The Younger Brothers
Movie • 1949
Deputy Joe
Warpath
Movie • 1951
First Emigrant
Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
Movie • 1937
Joe Stafford
Officer Thirteen
Movie • 1932
Tom Burke
Buffalo Stampede
Movie • 1933
Smiley
Secret Enemies
Movie • 1942
Hugo Mehl
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Movie • 1943
Bit Role
The Test
Movie • 1935
Pepite La Joie
Ranger of Cherokee Strip
Movie • 1949
Chief Hunter
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Movie • 1937
Indian Jim
Secret Agent X-9
Movie • 1937
Baron Michael Karsten
The Stoker
Movie • 1932
Dick Martin
Desert Gold
Movie • 1936
Chetley 'Chet' Kasedon
The Intruder
Movie • 1933
John Brandt
Humoresque
Movie • 1947
Moving Man (uncredited)
Prison Shadows
Movie • 1936
Bert McNamee
Mystery Sea Raider
Movie • 1940
Captain Norberg
Gold Raiders
Movie • 1951
John Sawyer
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Movie • 1938
Mr. Cameron
Amateur Crook
Movie • 1937
Crone
On Probation
Movie • 1935
Al Murray
South of St. Louis
Movie • 1949
Capt. Jeffrey
Hawk of the Wilderness
Movie • 1938
Yellow Weasel
King of the Texas Rangers
Movie • 1941
Capt. Tom King Sr.
Her Forgotten Past
Movie • 1933
Donald Thorne
Lucretia Lombard
Movie • 1923
Stephen Winship
Sky Racket
Movie • 1937
Benjamin Arnold
Student Tour
Movie • 1934
Jeff Kane
The Last Round-up
Movie • 1934
Jack Kells
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Movie • 1938
Sheriff Walker
Souls at Sea
Movie • 1937
Mate
My Favorite Blonde
Movie • 1942
Policeman at Union Hall (uncredited)
The Mysterious Rider
Movie • 1938
Cap Folsom
The Last Posse
Movie • 1953
Uncle Will
Rebellious Daughters
Movie • 1938
Charlie, alias Clint Houston
Casablanca
Movie • 1943
American (uncredited)
Illegal Traffic
Movie • 1938
Captain Moran
100% American
Movie • 1918
Mayme's Army boyfriend
M'Liss
Movie • 1918
Mexican Joe Dominguez
Mademoiselle Midnight
Movie • 1924
Owen Burke / Jerry Brent
So This Is Paris
Movie • 1926
Dr. Paul Giraud
Orphans of the Storm
Movie • 1921
Danton
The Man from Painted Post
Movie • 1917
Slim Carter
Mary of Scotland
Movie • 1936
Messenger
How to Educate a Wife
Movie • 1924
Ernest Todd
Daughters of Pleasure
Movie • 1924
Kent Merrill
Defying Destiny
Movie • 1923
Jack Fenton
Kiss Me Again
Movie • 1925
Gaston Fleury
The Limited Mail
Movie • 1925
Bob Wilson / Bob Snobson
Hogan's Alley
Movie • 1925
Lefty O'Brien
Red Hot Tires
Movie • 1925
Al Jones
Other Women's Husbands
Movie • 1926
Dick Lambert
Jim Bludso
Movie • 1917
Joe Bowers
The Horn Blows at Midnight
Movie • 1945
The Chef (uncredited)
Broadway Rose
Movie • 1922
Tom Darcy
Moonlight and Honeysuckle
Movie • 1921
Ted Musgrove
Ghosts
Movie • 1915
Bohemian
The 13th Commandment
Movie • 1920
Cocoanut Grove
Movie • 1938
Undetermined Role
'G' Men
Movie • 1935
Fingerprint Expert
Cinderella Jones
Movie • 1946
Jailer
Dodge City
Movie • 1939
Barlow
Frontier Pony Express
Movie • 1939
Cherokee
Juarez
Movie • 1939
Lerdo de Tajada
Union Pacific
Movie • 1939
Indian (uncredited)
Days of Jesse James
Movie • 1939
Train Passenger
Gentleman Jim
Movie • 1942
Gambler in "Lucky Guy"
Trail of the Arrow
Movie • 1952
(archive footage)
Johnny Belinda
Movie • 1948
Ben (uncredited)
Johanna Enlists
Movie • 1918
Pvt. Vibbard
Port of Hate
Movie • 1939
Hammond
The Great Train Robbery
Movie • 1941
The Super
A Million to One
Movie • 1936
John Kent Sr.
Social Error
Movie • 1935
Dean Carter
North to the Klondike
Movie • 1942
John Burke
Those Who Dance
Movie • 1930
Dan Hogan
Sunset in Wyoming
Movie • 1941
Jim Hayes
San Antonio
Movie • 1945
Cleve Andrews
Something to Think About
Movie • 1920
Jim Dirk
Riders of Death Valley
Movie • 1941
Rance Davis
Skin Deep
Movie • 1929
Joe Daley
Sharad of Atlantis
Movie • 1936
Unga Khan
Law of the Timber
Movie • 1941
Hodge Mason
One-Round Hogan
Movie • 1927
Robert Emmet Hogan
Brass Knuckles
Movie • 1927
Zac Harrison
Trails of the Wild
Movie • 1935
RCMP Larry Doyle
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Movie • 1940
Pablo Slide Along
Snake River Desperadoes
Movie • 1951
Jim Haverly
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Movie • 1916
The Strike Leader
North West Mounted Police
Movie • 1940
Indian
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Movie • 1938
Passenger (uncredited)
Road to Singapore
Movie • 1940
High Priest (uncredited)
The Goddess of Lost Lake
Movie • 1918
(uncredited)
The Big Wheel
Movie • 1949
Deacon Jones
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
Movie • 1950
Rice - Curry's Partner
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Movie • 1943
Bartender in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
Two Guys from Milwaukee
Movie • 1946
Broadcast Director (uncredited)
Geronimo
Movie • 1939
Interpreter
Klondike Fury
Movie • 1942
Flight Dispatcher
The Time, The Place and The Girl
Movie • 1946
Stage Manager (uncredited)
The Show of Shows
Movie • 1929
Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Never Say Goodbye
Movie • 1946
Policeman (uncredited)
The Sea Hornet
Movie • 1951
Lt. Drake
Our Leading Citizen
Movie • 1939
Frank
The Iroquois Trail
Movie • 1950
Chief Sagamore
The Vagabond Prince
Movie • 1916
Peasant
I Married a Witch
Movie • 1942
Doorman (uncredited)
The Dark Swan
Movie • 1924
Lewis Dike
The Blonde Bandit
Movie • 1949
Police Chief Ramsey
The Devil's Needle
Movie • 1916
Bartender (uncredited)
Hands Up!
Movie • 1917
Dan Tracy
Betsy's Burglar
Movie • 1917
Victor Gilpin
Stallion Road
Movie • 1947
Horse Rancher (uncredited)
The Matrimaniac
Movie • 1916
Assistant Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Silver River
Movie • 1948
'Buck' Chevigee
The Great Man's Lady
Movie • 1941
Man #2, Hoyt City
Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush
Movie • 1954
Sheriff
Martyrs of the Alamo
Movie • 1915
Defender of the Alamo
Conquest
Movie • 1928
Donald Overton
The Greyhound Limited
Movie • 1929
Monte
No Defense
Movie • 1929
Monte Collins
Come On, Marines!
Movie • 1934
Lt. Allen
The Birth of a Nation
Movie • 1915
(uncredited)
Isle of Escape
Movie • 1930
Dave Wade
New York Town
Movie • 1941
McAuliffe (uncredited)
The Remarkable Andrew
Movie • 1942
Policeman
Pacific Blackout
Movie • 1941
Colonel
Touchdown, Army
Movie • 1938
Pilot (uncredited)
From Headquarters
Movie • 1929
Happy Smith
The Purple Highway
Movie • 1923
Edgar Prentice, aka Edgar Craig
Bitter Apples
Movie • 1927
John Wyncote
Brass
Movie • 1923
Philip Baldwin
King of Alcatraz
Movie • 1938
Officer
Action in the North Atlantic
Movie • 1943
Seaman (uncredited)
Two Guys from Texas
Movie • 1948
Pete Nash
Edge of Darkness
Movie • 1943
Jens Petersen
Mission to Moscow
Movie • 1943
Heckler (uncredited)
The Unfaithful
Movie • 1947
Businessman with Hunter
Danger Signal
Movie • 1945
Policeman in Car
Frontier Days
Movie • 1945
Ned-U.S. Marshal
Across the Pacific
Movie • 1926
Monte
So You Want to Play the Horses
Movie • 1946
The Colonel (uncredited)
Recompense
Movie • 1925
Peter Graham
Revelation
Movie • 1924
Paul Granville
Peacock Alley
Movie • 1922
Elmer Harmon
Being Respectable
Movie • 1924
Charles Carpenter
The Lover of Camille
Movie • 1924
Jean Gaspard Deburau
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Movie • 1941
Ben Mott
A Broken Doll
Movie • 1921
Tommy Dawes
Road to Morocco
Movie • 1942
Kasim's Aide (uncredited)
The Fountainhead
Movie • 1949
Gas Station Executive (uncredited)
The Only Road
Movie • 1918
Pedro Lupo
The Hard Way
Movie • 1943
Man in Audience (Uncredited)
Too Much Johnson
Movie • 1919
Billy Lounsberry
Loving Lies
Movie • 1924
Captain Dan stover
The Microscope Mystery
Movie • 1916
Jud
Romance and Arabella
Movie • 1919
Harry Atteridge
Till I Come Back to You
Movie • 1918
American Doughboy
Everywoman
Movie • 1919
Love
Wild and Woolly
Movie • 1917
One of Wild Bill's Men (Uncredited)
The Man Upstairs
Movie • 1926
Geoffrey West
Across the Atlantic
Movie • 1928
Hugh Clayton
The Kentuckians
Movie • 1921
Boone Stallard
The Bush Leaguer
Movie • 1927
Buchanan 'Specs' White
Adventures of Don Juan
Movie • 1948
Turnkey (uncredited)
Her Marriage Vow
Movie • 1924
Bob Hilton
The Man I Love
Movie • 1946
Cop (uncredited)
Told in the Hills
Movie • 1919
Kalitan
Wolf's Clothing
Movie • 1927
Barry Baline
The Brute
Movie • 1927
Martin 'Easy-Going' Sondes
The Noon Hour
Movie • 1915
Ada's Brother
Ride, Vaquero!
Movie • 1953
Bartender (uncredited)
A Cumberland Romance
Movie • 1920
Sherd Raines
The Jucklins
Movie • 1921
Bill Hawes
Pettigrew's Girl
Movie • 1919
Pvt. William Pettigrew
The Red, Red Heart
Movie • 1918
Billy Porter
In Mizzoura
Movie • 1919
Sam Fowler
Rustling a Bride
Movie • 1919
Nick McCredie
The Flood
Movie • 1931
David Bruce
Treat 'Em Rough
Movie • 1942
Police Captain
The Lone Ranger
TV • 1949
Sheriff Stanton
Rawhide
TV • 1959
This Is Your Life
TV • 1952
Self
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV • 1955
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
TV • 1954
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
TV • 1951
26 Men
TV • 1957
Mr. & Mrs. North
TV • 1952