Monte Blue
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1887-01-10
Day of Death
1963-02-18 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Monte Blue
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.
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Known For
Acting
(1954)
Apache
as Geronimo
(1954)
(1953)
The Last Posse
as Uncle Will
(1952)
Hangman's Knot
as Maxwell
(1952)
Rose of Cimarron
as Lone Eagle
(1952)
Trail of the Arrow
as (archive footage)
(1951)
Warpath
as First Emigrant
(1951)
The Sea Hornet
as Lt. Drake
(1951)
Three Desperate Men
as Marshal Pete Coleman
(1951)
Gold Raiders
as John Sawyer
(1951)
Snake River Desperadoes
as Jim Haverly
(1950)
Backfire
as Det. Sgt. Pluther (uncredited)
(1950)
The Iroquois Trail
as Chief Sagamore
(1950)
This Side of the Law
as The Sheriff
(1950)
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
as Rice - Curry's Partner
(1949)
The Fountainhead
as Gas Station Executive (uncredited)
(1949)
Colorado Territory
as U.S. Marshal (uncredited)
(1949)
Homicide
as George, Sheriff
(1949)
Flaxy Martin
as Joe, Detective
(1949)
The Blonde Bandit
as Police Chief Ramsey
(1949)
The Big Wheel
as Deacon Jones
(1949)
South of St. Louis
as Capt. Jeffrey
(1949)
The Younger Brothers
as Deputy Joe
(1949)
Ranger of Cherokee Strip
as Chief Hunter
(1948)
Key Largo
as Sheriff Ben Wade
(1948)
Adventures of Don Juan
as Turnkey (uncredited)
(1948)
Johnny Belinda
as Ben (uncredited)
(1948)
Silver River
as 'Buck' Chevigee
(1948)
Two Guys from Texas
as Pete Nash
(1947)
Possessed
as Norris - lake house caretaker
(1947)
Humoresque
as Moving Man (uncredited)
(1947)
Life with Father
as The Policeman
(1947)
The Unfaithful
as Businessman with Hunter
(1947)
Cheyenne
as Timberline
(1947)
Stallion Road
as Horse Rancher (uncredited)
(1947)
Bells of San Fernando
as Governor Don Sebastian Fernando
(1946)
The Man I Love
as Cop (uncredited)
(1946)
Shadow of a Woman
as Mike, Police Lieutenant
(1946)
Cinderella Jones
as Jailer
(1946)
Never Say Goodbye
as Policeman (uncredited)
(1946)
So You Want to Play the Horses
as The Colonel (uncredited)
(1946)
The Time, The Place and The Girl
as Stage Manager (uncredited)
(1946)
Two Guys from Milwaukee
as Broadcast Director (uncredited)
(1945)
San Antonio
as Cleve Andrews
(1945)
The Horn Blows at Midnight
as The Chef (uncredited)
(1945)
Danger Signal
as Policeman in Car
(1945)
Frontier Days
as Ned-U.S. Marshal
(1944)
The Mask of Dimitrios
as Abdul Dhris
(1944)
Trial by Trigger
as Brewster (uncredited)
(1943)
Casablanca
as American (uncredited)
(1943)
Northern Pursuit
as Jean
(1943)
Action in the North Atlantic
as Seaman (uncredited)
(1943)
Mission to Moscow
as Heckler (uncredited)
(1943)
Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Bartender in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
(1943)
The Hard Way
as Man in Audience (Uncredited)
(1943)
Edge of Darkness
as Jens Petersen
(1943)
Truck Busters
as Scrappy O'Brien
(1943)
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
as Bit Role
(1942)
I Married a Witch
as Doorman (uncredited)
(1942)
Gentleman Jim
as Gambler in "Lucky Guy"
(1942)
Road to Morocco
as Kasim's Aide (uncredited)
(1942)
Across the Pacific
as Dan Morton
(1942)
The Remarkable Andrew
as Policeman
(1942)
Secret Enemies
as Hugo Mehl
(1942)
My Favorite Blonde
as Policeman at Union Hall (uncredited)
(1942)
The Hidden Hand
as Matthews, the undertaker (uncredited)
(1942)
North to the Klondike
as John Burke
(1942)
Klondike Fury
as Flight Dispatcher
(1941)
Bad Man of Deadwood
as Sheriff Jordan
(1941)
Riders of Death Valley
as Rance Davis
(1941)
The Great Man's Lady
as Man #2, Hoyt City
(1941)
Pacific Blackout
as Colonel
(1941)
New York Town
as McAuliffe (uncredited)
(1941)
Law of the Timber
as Hodge Mason
(1941)
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
as Ben Mott
(1941)
Sunset in Wyoming
as Jim Hayes
(1941)
The Great Train Robbery
as The Super
(1941)
King of the Texas Rangers
as Capt. Tom King Sr.
(1940)
Young Bill Hickok
as Marshal Evans
(1940)
Road to Singapore
as High Priest (uncredited)
(1940)
North West Mounted Police
as Indian
(1940)
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
as Pablo Slide Along
(1940)
Mystery Sea Raider
as Captain Norberg
(1939)
Dodge City
as Barlow
(1939)
Union Pacific
as Indian (uncredited)
(1939)
Juarez
as Lerdo de Tajada
(1939)
Geronimo
as Interpreter
(1939)
Days of Jesse James
as Train Passenger
(1939)
Frontier Pony Express
as Cherokee
(1939)
Our Leading Citizen
as Frank
(1939)
Port of Hate
as Hammond
(1938)
Rebellious Daughters
as Charlie, alias Clint Houston
(1938)
The Mysterious Rider
as Cap Folsom
(1938)
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Mr. Cameron
(1938)
Illegal Traffic
as Captain Moran
(1938)
Touchdown, Army
as Pilot (uncredited)
(1938)
Cocoanut Grove
as Undetermined Role
(1938)
Tom Sawyer, Detective
as Sheriff Walker
(1938)
The Big Broadcast of 1938
as Passenger (uncredited)
(1938)
King of Alcatraz
as Officer
(1938)
Hawk of the Wilderness
as Yellow Weasel
(1937)
Born to the West
as Bart Hammond
(1937)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
as Indian Jim
(1937)
Souls at Sea
as Mate
(1937)
Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
as Joe Stafford
(1937)
Amateur Crook
as Crone
(1937)
Sky Racket
as Benjamin Arnold
(1937)
Secret Agent X-9
as Baron Michael Karsten
(1936)
Sharad of Atlantis
as Unga Khan
(1936)
Mary of Scotland
as Messenger
(1936)
Treachery Rides the Range
as Colonel Drummond
(1936)
Prison Shadows
as Bert McNamee
(1936)
A Million to One
as John Kent Sr.
(1936)
Song of the Gringo
as Sheriff
(1936)
Desert Gold
as Chetley 'Chet' Kasedon
(1936)
Ride, Ranger, Ride
as Duval, aka Chief Tavibo
(1935)
'G' Men
as Fingerprint Expert
(1935)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
as Hamzulla Khan
(1935)
The Test
as Pepite La Joie
(1935)
Social Error
as Dean Carter
(1935)
Wanderer of the Wasteland
as Guerd Larey
(1935)
Trails of the Wild
as RCMP Larry Doyle
(1935)
Nevada
as Clem Dillon
(1935)
On Probation
as Al Murray
(1934)
Wagon Wheels
as Kenneth Murdock
(1934)
Student Tour
as Jeff Kane
(1934)
Come On, Marines!
as Lt. Allen
(1934)
The Last Round-up
as Jack Kells
(1933)
The Intruder
as John Brandt
(1933)
Buffalo Stampede
as Smiley
(1933)
Her Forgotten Past
as Donald Thorne
(1932)
Officer Thirteen
as Tom Burke
(1932)
The Stoker
as Dick Martin
(1930)
Those Who Dance
as Dan Hogan
(1930)
Isle of Escape
as Dave Wade
(1929)
Show of Shows
as Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
(1929)
From Headquarters
as Happy Smith
(1929)
No Defense
as Monte Collins
(1929)
The Greyhound Limited
as Monte
(1929)
Skin Deep
as Joe Daley
(1929)
Tiger Rose
as Devlin
(1928)
White Shadows in the South Seas
as Dr. Matthew Lloyd
(1928)
Conquest
as Donald Overton
(1928)
Across the Atlantic
as Hugh Clayton
(1927)
Brass Knuckles
as Zac Harrison
(1927)
The Black Diamond Express
as Dan Foster
(1927)
The Bush Leaguer
as Buchanan 'Specs' White
(1927)
One-Round Hogan
as Robert Emmet Hogan
(1927)
Bitter Apples
as John Wyncote
(1927)
(1926)
So This Is Paris
as Dr. Paul Giraud
(1926)
Across the Pacific
as Monte
(1926)
Other Women's Husbands
as Dick Lambert
(1926)
The Man Upstairs
as Geoffrey West
(1925)
Red Hot Tires
as Al Jones
(1925)
Kiss Me Again
as Gaston Fleury
(1925)
The Limited Mail
as Bob Wilson / Bob Snobson
(1925)
Recompense
as Peter Graham
(1925)
Hogan's Alley
as Lefty O'Brien
(1924)
Loving Lies
as Captain Dan stover
(1924)
The Marriage Circle
as Dr. Franz Braun
(1924)
Being Respectable
as Charles Carpenter
(1924)
Revelation
as Paul Granville
(1924)
The Lover of Camille
as Jean Gaspard Deburau
(1924)
Mademoiselle Midnight
as Owen Burke / Jerry Brent
(1924)
How to Educate a Wife
as Ernest Todd
(1924)
Daughters of Pleasure
as Kent Merrill
(1924)
Her Marriage Vow
as Bob Hilton
(1924)
The Dark Swan
as Lewis Dike
(1923)
Brass
as Philip Baldwin
(1923)
Main Street
as Dr. Will Kennicott
(1923)
Lucretia Lombard
as Stephen Winship
(1923)
The Purple Highway
as Edgar Prentice, aka Edgar Craig
(1923)
Defying Destiny
as Jack Fenton
(1922)
Peacock Alley
as Elmer Harmon
(1922)
Broadway Rose
as Tom Darcy
(1922)
My Old Kentucky Home
as Richard Goodloe
(1921)
Orphans of the Storm
as Danton
(1921)
The Affairs of Anatol
as Abner Elliott
(1921)
Moonlight and Honeysuckle
as Ted Musgrove
(1921)
A Broken Doll
as Tommy Dawes
(1921)
The Kentuckians
as Boone Stallard
(1921)
A Perfect Crime
as Wally Griggs
(1920)
(1920)
Something to Think About
as Jim Dirk
(1919)
Too Much Johnson
as Billy Lounsberry
(1919)
Everywoman
as Love
(1919)
Told in the Hills
as Kalitan
(1919)
Romance and Arabella
as Harry Atteridge
(1918)
M'Liss
as Mexican Joe Dominguez
(1918)
The Squaw Man
as Happy
(1918)
(1918)
Till I Come Back to You
as American Doughboy
(1918)
The Only Road
as Pedro Lupo
(1918)
The Romance of Tarzan
as Juan
(1918)
100% American
as Mayme's Army boyfriend
(1918)
The Goddess of Lost Lake
as (uncredited)
(1918)
Johanna Enlists
as Pvt. Vibbard
(1918)
Riders of the Night
as 'The Killer' Jed
(1917)
The Man from Painted Post
as Slim Carter
(1917)
Wild and Woolly
as One of Wild Bill's Men (Uncredited)
(1917)
Hands Up!
as Dan Tracy
(1917)
Betsy's Burglar
as Victor Gilpin
(1917)
Jim Bludso
as Joe Bowers
(1916)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as The Strike Leader
(1916)
The Matrimaniac
as Assistant Hotel Manager (uncredited)
(1916)
The Vagabond Prince
as Peasant
(1916)
The Devil's Needle
as Bartender (uncredited)
(1916)
The Microscope Mystery
as Jud
(1915)
The Birth of a Nation
as (uncredited)
(1915)
Ghosts
as Bohemian
(1915)
Martyrs of the Alamo
as Defender of the Alamo
Crew
(1916)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Second Assistant Director
(1915)
The Birth of a Nation
Stunts, Assistant Director