Montagu Love
Acting • Born 1880-03-15 – Died 1943-05-17
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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).
Filmography
172 credits
Forget-Me-Not
Movie • 1917
Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
Rasputin, the Black Monk
Movie • 1917
Gregory Novik / Rasputin
The Volunteer
Movie • 1917
Self - Cameo Appearance
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Movie • 1938
Bishop of the Black Canons
Out of the Storm
Movie • 1926
Timothy Keith
The Cross Bearer
Movie • 1918
Cardinal Mercier
The Wind
Movie • 1928
Roddy
Gunga Din
Movie • 1939
Colonel Weed
The Silent Lover
Movie • 1926
Ben Achmed
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Movie • 1942
General Jerome Lawford
The Greater Will
Movie • 1915
Stuart Watson
The Dancer's Peril
Movie • 1917
Michael Pavloff
The Sea Hawk
Movie • 1940
King Philip II
The Ancient Highway
Movie • 1925
Ivan Hurd
Hands Up!
Movie • 1926
Capt. Edward Logan
Lady for a Night
Movie • 1942
Judge
The Gilded Cage
Movie • 1916
Baron Stefano
Torpedo of Doom
Movie • 1966
Col. White
The Prince and the Pauper
Movie • 1937
Henry VIII
Tovarich
Movie • 1937
M. Courtois
The Devil and Miss Jones
Movie • 1941
Harrison
The Prisoner of Zenda
Movie • 1937
Detchard
A Damsel in Distress
Movie • 1937
Lord Marshmorton
The Son of Monte Cristo
Movie • 1940
Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff
Bulldog Drummond
Movie • 1929
Peterson
The Desert's Price
Movie • 1925
Jim Martin
Lloyd's of London
Movie • 1936
Hawkins
North West Mounted Police
Movie • 1940
Inspector Cabot
Devotion
Movie • 1946
Rev. Brontë
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Movie • 1940
Emil Gorlick
The Son of the Sheik
Movie • 1926
Ghabah
The Remarkable Andrew
Movie • 1942
General George Washington
Wings Over the Pacific
Movie • 1943
Jim Butler
The Haunted House
Movie • 1928
Mad Doctor
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Movie • 1940
Professor Hartmann
Outward Bound
Movie • 1930
Mr. Lingley
The Divine Lady
Movie • 1928
Capt. Hardy
Hudson's Bay
Movie • 1940
Governor D'Argenson
If I Were King
Movie • 1938
General Dudon
Rulers of the Sea
Movie • 1939
Malcolm Grant
His Double Life
Movie • 1933
Duncan Farrel
Limehouse Blues
Movie • 1934
Pug Talbot
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Movie • 1935
Director
The Cabaret
Movie • 1918
Jaffrey Darrel
Back Pay
Movie • 1930
Charles Wheeler
We Are Not Alone
Movie • 1939
Major Millman
Charming Sinners
Movie • 1929
George Whitley
The Midnight Lady
Movie • 1932
Harvey Austin
Roulette
Movie • 1924
Dan Carrington
Out of Singapore
Movie • 1932
Capt. Scar Murray
The Expectant Father
Movie • 1934
London by Night
Movie • 1937
Sir Arthur Herrick
Love Comes Along
Movie • 1930
Sangredo
Alexander Hamilton
Movie • 1931
Thomas Jefferson
Parnell
Movie • 1937
William Ewart Gladstone
Shining Victory
Movie • 1941
Dr. Blake
Sons of Liberty
Movie • 1939
George Washington
The Fighting Devil Dogs
Movie • 1938
General White
Sutter's Gold
Movie • 1936
Capt. Kettleson
Kismet
Movie • 1930
The Jailer
Inside the Lines
Movie • 1930
Governor of Gibraltar
The Last Warning
Movie • 1928
Arthur McHugh
The Country Doctor
Movie • 1936
Sir Basil Crawford
The Scarlet Oath
Movie • 1916
Nicholas Savaroff
Stolen Orders
Movie • 1918
John Le Page
Yankee Pluck
Movie • 1917
Baron Wootchi
The Eternal City
Movie • 1923
Minghelli
The Night of Love
Movie • 1927
Duke de la Garda
Synthetic Sin
Movie • 1929
Brandy Mulane
Clive of India
Movie • 1935
Governor Pigot
Good Time Charley
Movie • 1927
John Hartwell
Sing, Baby, Sing
Movie • 1936
Robert Wilson
Reunion
Movie • 1936
Sir Basil Crawford
Our Film Stars
Movie • 1919
Hi, Gaucho!
Movie • 1935
Hillario Bolario
Through the Toils
Movie • 1919
Noel Graham / Lewis Moffat
The King of Kings
Movie • 1927
Roman Centurion
The Constant Nymph
Movie • 1943
Albert Sanger
The Mark of Zorro
Movie • 1940
Don Alejandro Vega
The Hawk's Nest
Movie • 1928
Dan Daugherty
The White Angel
Movie • 1936
Mr. Bullock
The Men She Married
Movie • 1916
Jerry Trainor
Champagne Charlie
Movie • 1936
Ivan Suchine
Frankie and Johnnie
Movie • 1936
Colonel Brand
Menace
Movie • 1934
Police Inspector
Juarez
Movie • 1939
Jose de Montares
The Crusades
Movie • 1935
The Blacksmith
The Man in the Iron Mask
Movie • 1939
Spanish Ambassador
Professor Beware
Movie • 1938
Professor Schmutz
The Hidden Scar
Movie • 1916
Henry Dalton
Husband and Wife
Movie • 1916
Patrick Alliston
A Woman's Way
Movie • 1916
Oliver Whitney
Adventure's End
Movie • 1937
Capt. Abner Drew
Kidnapped
Movie • 1938
Colonel Whitehead
The Noose
Movie • 1928
Buck Gordon
The Cat Creeps
Movie • 1930
Hendricks
All This, and Heaven Too
Movie • 1940
Marechal Sebastiani
A Notorious Affair
Movie • 1930
Sir Thomas Hanley
Double Cross Roads
Movie • 1930
Gene Dyke
The Mad Marriage
Movie • 1925
Don Juan
Movie • 1926
Count Giano Donati
Northwest Passage
Movie • 1940
Wiseman Clagett
At Twelve Midnight
Movie • 1933
Captain James alias The Fox
A Dispatch from Reuters
Movie • 1940
Delane
The Riddle: Woman
Movie • 1920
Larz Olrik
The Devil's Toy
Movie • 1916
Wilfred Barsley
Forever and a Day
Movie • 1943
Sir John Bunn
The Mysterious Island
Movie • 1929
Falon
The Mysterious Island
Movie • 1929
Mikhail
Stowaway
Movie • 1932
Groder
Love Bound
Movie • 1932
John Randolph
Character Studies
Movie • 1928
Love's Redemption
Movie • 1921
Frederick Kent
Vanity Fair
Movie • 1932
Marquis of Steyne
The Beauty Shop
Movie • 1922
Maldonado
Rose of the Golden West
Movie • 1927
Gen. Vallero
Brooding Eyes
Movie • 1926
Pat Callaghan
Reno
Movie • 1930
Alexander W. Brett
The Buccaneer
Movie • 1938
Admiral Cockburn
The Silver Lining
Movie • 1932
Michael Moore
The Tender Hour
Movie • 1927
Grand Duke Sergei
One in a Million
Movie • 1937
Ratoffsky
Forever
Movie • 1921
Colonel Ibbetson
The Devil's Skipper
Movie • 1928
First Mate
The Dormant Power
Movie • 1917
Hollywood Extra Girl
Movie • 1935
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
The Suicide Club
Movie • 1914
Prince Florizel
A Son of the Sahara
Movie • 1924
Sultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier
The Case of Becky
Movie • 1921
Prof. Balzamo
Private Affairs
Movie • 1940
Noble Bullerton
Her Private Life
Movie • 1929
Sir Bruce Haden
A Most Immoral Lady
Movie • 1929
John Williams
The Voice Within
Movie • 1929
Midstream
Movie • 1929
Dr. Nelson
A Broadway Saint
Movie • 1919
Dick Vernon
What's Wrong with the Women?
Movie • 1922
Arthur Belden
The Life of Emile Zola
Movie • 1937
M. Cavaignac
Jesse James
Movie • 1927
Frederick Mimms
Secrets of Paris
Movie • 1922
The Schoolmaster
The Riding Tornado
Movie • 1932
Walt Corson
Tennessee Johnson
Movie • 1942
Chief Justice Chase
Sinners in Heaven
Movie • 1924
Native Chief
Restless Wives
Movie • 1924
Hugo Cady
Silks and Saddles
Movie • 1929
Walter Sinclair
Hearts in Exile
Movie • 1915
The Awakening
Movie • 1917
Jacques Revilly
The World and His Wife
Movie • 1920
Don Julian
The Brand of Satan
Movie • 1917
Jacques Cordet
The Grouch
Movie • 1918
Donald Graham
A Royal Family
Movie • 1915
Crown Prince of Kurland
The Challenge
Movie • 1916
Quarrier
The Hand Invisible
Movie • 1919
Rodney Graham
Three Green Eyes
Movie • 1919
Allen Granat
The Good for Nothing
Movie • 1917
Who's Cheating?
Movie • 1924
Harrison Fields
Love of Women
Movie • 1924
Bronson Gibbs
The Place of Honeymoons
Movie • 1920
Edward Courtlandt
The Haunted Ship
Movie • 1927
Captain Simon Gant
Broken Ties
Movie • 1918
John Fleming
Man's Plaything
Movie • 1920
Pelton Vab Teel
The Rough Neck
Movie • 1919
John Masters
The Steel King
Movie • 1919
John Blake
The Leopardess
Movie • 1923
Scott Quaigg
One Hour of Love
Movie • 1927
J.W. McKay
The Face in the Moonlight
Movie • 1915
Week End Husbands
Movie • 1924
Thomas Mowry
The Lion and the Lamb
Movie • 1931
Professor Tottie
The Quickening Flame
Movie • 1919
John Steele
The Social Highwayman
Movie • 1926
Ducket Nelson
Bought and Paid For
Movie • 1916
Robert Stafford
Friday the 13th
Movie • 1916
Count Varneloff
Shams of Society
Movie • 1921
Herbert Porter