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