Monte Blue
Biography
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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
1947
asNorris - lake house caretaker
1948
asSheriff Ben Wade
1936
asDuval, aka Chief Tavibo
1942
asMatthews, the undertaker (uncredited)
1923
asDr. Will Kennicott
1918
as'The Killer' Jed
1922
asRichard Goodloe
1950
asDet. Sgt. Pluther (uncredited)
1918
asHappy
1944
asAbdul Dhris
1951
asMarshal Pete Coleman
1947
asThe Policeman
1952
asLone Eagle
1947
asTimberline
1954
asGeronimo
1935
asHamzulla Khan
1946
asMike, Police Lieutenant
1950
asThe Sheriff
1941
asSheriff Jordan
1949
asJoe, Detective
1929
asDevlin
1927
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1921
asWally Griggs
1936
asSheriff
1949
asGeorge, Sheriff
1942
asDan Morton
1944
asBrewster (uncredited)
1928
asDr. Matthew Lloyd
1940
asMarshal Evans
1937
asBart Hammond
1952
asMaxwell
1921
asAbner Elliott
1918
asJuan
1924
asDr. Franz Braun
1918
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1943
asJean
1949
asU.S. Marshal (uncredited)
1943
asScrappy O'Brien
1927
asDan Foster
1934
asKenneth Murdock
1935
asGuerd Larey
1935
asClem Dillon
1947
asGovernor Don Sebastian Fernando
1936
asColonel Drummond
1949
asDeputy Joe
1951
asFirst Emigrant
1937
asJoe Stafford
1932
asTom Burke
1933
asSmiley
1942
asHugo Mehl
1943
asBit Role
1935
asPepite La Joie
1949
asChief Hunter
1937
asIndian Jim
1937
asBaron Michael Karsten
1932
asDick Martin
1936
asChetley 'Chet' Kasedon
1933
asJohn Brandt
1947
asMoving Man (uncredited)
1936
asBert McNamee
1940
asCaptain Norberg
1951
asJohn Sawyer
1938
asMr. Cameron
1937
asCrone
1935
asAl Murray
1949
asCapt. Jeffrey
1938
asYellow Weasel
1941
asCapt. Tom King Sr.
1933
asDonald Thorne
1923
asStephen Winship
1937
asBenjamin Arnold
1934
asJeff Kane
1934
asJack Kells
1938
asSheriff Walker
1937
asMate
1942
asPoliceman at Union Hall (uncredited)
1938
asCap Folsom
1953
asUncle Will
1938
asCharlie, alias Clint Houston
1943
asAmerican (uncredited)
1938
asCaptain Moran
1918
asMayme's Army boyfriend
1918
asMexican Joe Dominguez
1924
asOwen Burke / Jerry Brent
1926
asDr. Paul Giraud
1921
asDanton
1917
asSlim Carter
1936
asMessenger
1924
asErnest Todd
1924
asKent Merrill
1923
asJack Fenton
1925
asGaston Fleury
1925
asBob Wilson / Bob Snobson
1925
asLefty O'Brien
1925
asAl Jones
1926
asDick Lambert
1917
asJoe Bowers
1945
asThe Chef (uncredited)
1922
asTom Darcy
1921
asTed Musgrove
1915
asBohemian
1920
as
1938
asUndetermined Role
1935
asFingerprint Expert
1946
asJailer
1939
asBarlow
1939
asCherokee
1939
asLerdo de Tajada
1939
asIndian (uncredited)
1939
asTrain Passenger
1942
asGambler in "Lucky Guy"
1952
as(archive footage)
1948
asBen (uncredited)
1918
asPvt. Vibbard
1939
asHammond
1941
asThe Super
1936
asJohn Kent Sr.
1935
asDean Carter
1942
asJohn Burke
1930
asDan Hogan
1941
asJim Hayes
1945
asCleve Andrews
1920
asJim Dirk
1941
asRance Davis
1929
asJoe Daley
1936
asUnga Khan
1941
asHodge Mason
1927
asRobert Emmet Hogan
1927
asZac Harrison
1935
asRCMP Larry Doyle
1940
asPablo Slide Along
1951
asJim Haverly
1916
asThe Strike Leader
1940
asIndian
1938
asPassenger (uncredited)
1940
asHigh Priest (uncredited)
1918
as(uncredited)
1949
asDeacon Jones
1950
asRice - Curry's Partner
1943
asBartender in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
1946
asBroadcast Director (uncredited)
1939
asInterpreter
1942
asFlight Dispatcher
1946
asStage Manager (uncredited)
1929
asCondemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
1946
asPoliceman (uncredited)
1951
asLt. Drake
1939
asFrank
1950
asChief Sagamore
1916
asPeasant
1942
asDoorman (uncredited)
1924
asLewis Dike
1949
asPolice Chief Ramsey
1916
asBartender (uncredited)
1917
asDan Tracy
1917
asVictor Gilpin
1947
asHorse Rancher (uncredited)
1916
asAssistant Hotel Manager (uncredited)
1948
as'Buck' Chevigee
1941
asMan #2, Hoyt City
1954
asSheriff
1915
asDefender of the Alamo
1928
asDonald Overton
1929
asMonte
1929
asMonte Collins
1934
asLt. Allen
1915
as(uncredited)
1930
asDave Wade
1941
asMcAuliffe (uncredited)
1942
asPoliceman
1941
asColonel
1938
asPilot (uncredited)
1929
asHappy Smith
1923
asEdgar Prentice, aka Edgar Craig
1927
asJohn Wyncote
1923
asPhilip Baldwin
1938
asOfficer
1943
asSeaman (uncredited)
1948
asPete Nash
1943
asJens Petersen
1943
asHeckler (uncredited)
1947
asBusinessman with Hunter
1945
asPoliceman in Car
1945
asNed-U.S. Marshal
1926
asMonte
1946
asThe Colonel (uncredited)
1925
asPeter Graham
1924
asPaul Granville
1922
asElmer Harmon
1924
asCharles Carpenter
1924
asJean Gaspard Deburau
1941
asBen Mott
1921
asTommy Dawes
1942
asKasim's Aide (uncredited)
1949
asGas Station Executive (uncredited)
1918
asPedro Lupo
1943
asMan in Audience (Uncredited)
1919
asBilly Lounsberry
1924
asCaptain Dan stover
1916
asJud
1919
asHarry Atteridge
1918
asAmerican Doughboy
1919
asLove
1917
asOne of Wild Bill's Men (Uncredited)
1926
asGeoffrey West
1928
asHugh Clayton
1921
asBoone Stallard
1927
asBuchanan 'Specs' White
1948
asTurnkey (uncredited)
1924
asBob Hilton
1946
asCop (uncredited)
1919
asKalitan
1927
asBarry Baline
1927
asMartin 'Easy-Going' Sondes
asSheriff Stanton
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