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