Montagu Love
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1880-03-15
Day of Death
1943-05-17 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
Montagu Love
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).
Known For
Acting
(1966)
Torpedo of Doom
as Col. White
(1946)
Devotion
as Rev. Brontë
(1943)
Forever and a Day
as Sir John Bunn
(1943)
The Constant Nymph
as Albert Sanger
(1943)
Wings Over the Pacific
as Jim Butler
(1942)
The Remarkable Andrew
as General George Washington
(1942)
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
as General Jerome Lawford
(1942)
Tennessee Johnson
as Chief Justice Chase
(1942)
Lady for a Night
as Judge
(1941)
Shining Victory
as Dr. Blake
(1941)
Hudson's Bay
as Governor D'Argenson
(1941)
The Devil and Miss Jones
as Harrison
(1940)
The Lone Wolf Strikes
as Emil Gorlick
(1940)
The Son of Monte Cristo
as Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff
(1940)
The Mark of Zorro
as Don Alejandro Vega
(1940)
A Dispatch from Reuters
as Delane
(1940)
Northwest Passage
as Wiseman Clagett
(1940)
The Sea Hawk
as King Philip II
(1940)
Private Affairs
as Noble Bullerton
(1940)
All This, and Heaven Too
as Marechal Sebastiani
(1940)
North West Mounted Police
as Inspector Cabot
(1940)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Professor Hartmann
(1939)
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Spanish Ambassador
(1939)
Rulers of the Sea
as Malcolm Grant
(1939)
Sons of Liberty
as George Washington
(1939)
Gunga Din
as Colonel Weed
(1939)
Juarez
as Jose de Montares
(1939)
We Are Not Alone
as Major Millman
(1938)
If I Were King
as General Dudon
(1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Bishop of the Black Canons
(1938)
Kidnapped
as Colonel Whitehead
(1938)
The Buccaneer
as Admiral Cockburn
(1938)
Professor Beware
as Professor Schmutz
(1938)
The Fighting Devil Dogs
as General White
(1937)
The Life of Emile Zola
as M. Cavaignac
(1937)
One in a Million
as Ratoffsky
(1937)
A Damsel in Distress
as Lord Marshmorton
(1937)
The Prince and the Pauper
as Henry VIII
(1937)
Adventure's End
as Capt. Abner Drew
(1937)
Tovarich
as M. Courtois
(1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Detchard
(1937)
Parnell
as William Ewart Gladstone
(1937)
London by Night
as Sir Arthur Herrick
(1936)
Lloyd's of London
as Hawkins
(1936)
The White Angel
as Mr. Bullock
(1936)
Champagne Charlie
as Ivan Suchine
(1936)
Frankie and Johnnie
as Colonel Brand
(1936)
Sing, Baby, Sing
as Robert Wilson
(1936)
Sutter's Gold
as Capt. Kettleson
(1936)
Reunion
as Sir Basil Crawford
(1936)
The Country Doctor
as Sir Basil Crawford
(1935)
Clive of India
as Governor Pigot
(1935)
The Crusades
as The Blacksmith
(1935)
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as Director
(1935)
Hi, Gaucho!
as Hillario Bolario
(1935)
Hollywood Extra Girl
as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
(1934)
Limehouse Blues
as Pug Talbot
(1934)
Menace
as Police Inspector
(1934)
(1933)
His Double Life
as Duncan Farrel
(1933)
At Twelve Midnight
as Captain James alias The Fox
(1932)
Stowaway
as Groder
(1932)
Love Bound
as John Randolph
(1932)
Out of Singapore
as Capt. Scar Murray
(1932)
Vanity Fair
as Marquis of Steyne
(1932)
The Riding Tornado
as Walt Corson
(1932)
The Midnight Lady
as Harvey Austin
(1932)
The Silver Lining
as Michael Moore
(1931)
Alexander Hamilton
as Thomas Jefferson
(1930)
Love Comes Along
as Sangredo
(1930)
A Notorious Affair
as Sir Thomas Hanley
(1930)
Back Pay
as Charles Wheeler
(1930)
Double Cross Roads
as Gene Dyke
(1930)
Outward Bound
as Mr. Lingley
(1930)
Kismet
as The Jailer
(1930)
Inside the Lines
as Governor of Gibraltar
(1930)
Reno
as Alexander W. Brett
(1930)
The Cat Creeps
as Hendricks
(1929)
The Mysterious Island
as Falon
(1929)
The Mysterious Island
as Mikhail
(1929)
Bulldog Drummond
as Peterson
(1929)
(1929)
Synthetic Sin
as Brandy Mulane
(1929)
Charming Sinners
as George Whitley
(1929)
Her Private Life
as Sir Bruce Haden
(1929)
A Most Immoral Lady
as John Williams
(1929)
Midstream
as Dr. Nelson
(1929)
Silks and Saddles
as Walter Sinclair
(1928)
The Divine Lady
as Capt. Hardy
(1928)
The Wind
as Roddy
(1928)
The Noose
as Buck Gordon
(1928)
The Devil's Skipper
as First Mate
(1928)
The Haunted House
as Mad Doctor
(1928)
The Last Warning
as Arthur McHugh
(1928)
The Hawk's Nest
as Dan Daugherty
(1928)
(1927)
Good Time Charley
as John Hartwell
(1927)
The Night of Love
as Duke de la Garda
(1927)
Rose of the Golden West
as Gen. Vallero
(1927)
The King of Kings
as Roman Centurion
(1927)
The Tender Hour
as Grand Duke Sergei
(1927)
Jesse James
as Frederick Mimms
(1927)
The Haunted Ship
as Captain Simon Gant
(1926)
Brooding Eyes
as Pat Callaghan
(1926)
Hands Up!
as Capt. Edward Logan
(1926)
Don Juan
as Count Giano Donati
(1926)
The Son of the Sheik
as Ghabah
(1926)
The Silent Lover
as Ben Achmed
(1926)
Out of the Storm
as Timothy Keith
(1925)
The Ancient Highway
as Ivan Hurd
(1925)
(1925)
The Desert's Price
as Jim Martin
(1924)
Love of Women
as Bronson Gibbs
(1924)
Restless Wives
as Hugo Cady
(1924)
A Son of the Sahara
as Sultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier
(1924)
Roulette
as Dan Carrington
(1924)
Sinners in Heaven
as Native Chief
(1924)
Who's Cheating?
as Harrison Fields
(1923)
The Eternal City
as Minghelli
(1922)
Secrets of Paris
as The Schoolmaster
(1922)
(1922)
The Beauty Shop
as Maldonado
(1921)
Forever
as Colonel Ibbetson
(1921)
Love's Redemption
as Frederick Kent
(1921)
The Case of Becky
as Prof. Balzamo
(1920)
The Riddle: Woman
as Larz Olrik
(1920)
The Place of Honeymoons
as Edward Courtlandt
(1920)
The World and His Wife
as Don Julian
(1919)
Three Green Eyes
as Allen Granat
(1919)
Through the Toils
as Noel Graham / Lewis Moffat
(1919)
The Hand Invisible
as Rodney Graham
(1919)
A Broadway Saint
as Dick Vernon
(1919)
(1918)
Broken Ties
as John Fleming
(1918)
Stolen Orders
as John Le Page
(1918)
The Grouch
as Donald Graham
(1918)
The Cross Bearer
as Cardinal Mercier
(1918)
The Cabaret
as Jaffrey Darrel
(1917)
The Volunteer
as Self - Cameo Appearance
(1917)
(1917)
Forget-Me-Not
as Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
(1917)
The Dancer's Peril
as Michael Pavloff
(1917)
Rasputin, the Black Monk
as Gregory Novik / Rasputin
(1917)
The Brand of Satan
as Jacques Cordet
(1917)
The Awakening
as Jacques Revilly
(1917)
(1917)
Yankee Pluck
as Baron Wootchi
(1916)
The Hidden Scar
as Henry Dalton
(1916)
Husband and Wife
as Patrick Alliston
(1916)
The Gilded Cage
as Baron Stefano
(1916)
A Woman's Way
as Oliver Whitney
(1916)
The Scarlet Oath
as Nicholas Savaroff
(1916)
The Devil's Toy
as Wilfred Barsley
(1916)
The Challenge
as Quarrier
(1916)
The Men She Married
as Jerry Trainor
(1915)
A Royal Family
as Crown Prince of Kurland
(1915)
(1915)
The Greater Will
as Stuart Watson
(1914)
The Suicide Club
as Prince Florizel