Montagu Love
Biography
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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).
Known For
Acting
1917
asGabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
1917
asGregory Novik / Rasputin
1917
asSelf - Cameo Appearance
1938
asBishop of the Black Canons
1926
asTimothy Keith
1918
asCardinal Mercier
1928
asRoddy
1939
asColonel Weed
1926
asBen Achmed
1942
asGeneral Jerome Lawford
1915
asStuart Watson
1917
asMichael Pavloff
1940
asKing Philip II
1925
asIvan Hurd
1926
asCapt. Edward Logan
1942
asJudge
1916
asBaron Stefano
1966
asCol. White
1937
asHenry VIII
1937
asM. Courtois
1941
asHarrison
1937
asDetchard
1937
asLord Marshmorton
1940
asPrime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff
1929
asPeterson
1925
asJim Martin
1936
asHawkins
1940
asInspector Cabot
1946
asRev. Brontë
1940
asEmil Gorlick
1926
asGhabah
1942
asGeneral George Washington
1943
asJim Butler
1928
asMad Doctor
1940
asProfessor Hartmann
1930
asMr. Lingley
1928
asCapt. Hardy
1940
asGovernor D'Argenson
1938
asGeneral Dudon
1939
asMalcolm Grant
1933
asDuncan Farrel
1934
asPug Talbot
1935
asDirector
1918
asJaffrey Darrel
1930
asCharles Wheeler
1939
asMajor Millman
1929
asGeorge Whitley
1932
asHarvey Austin
1924
asDan Carrington
1932
asCapt. Scar Murray
1934
as
1937
asSir Arthur Herrick
1930
asSangredo
1931
asThomas Jefferson
1937
asWilliam Ewart Gladstone
1941
asDr. Blake
1939
asGeorge Washington
1938
asGeneral White
1936
asCapt. Kettleson
1930
asThe Jailer
1930
asGovernor of Gibraltar
1928
asArthur McHugh
1936
asSir Basil Crawford
1916
asNicholas Savaroff
1918
asJohn Le Page
1917
asBaron Wootchi
1923
asMinghelli
1927
asDuke de la Garda
1929
asBrandy Mulane
1935
asGovernor Pigot
1927
asJohn Hartwell
1936
asRobert Wilson
1936
asSir Basil Crawford
1919
as
1935
asHillario Bolario
1919
asNoel Graham / Lewis Moffat
1927
asRoman Centurion
1943
asAlbert Sanger
1940
asDon Alejandro Vega
1928
asDan Daugherty
1936
asMr. Bullock
1916
asJerry Trainor
1936
asIvan Suchine
1936
asColonel Brand
1934
asPolice Inspector
1939
asJose de Montares
1935
asThe Blacksmith
1939
asSpanish Ambassador
1938
asProfessor Schmutz
1916
asHenry Dalton
1916
asPatrick Alliston
1916
asOliver Whitney
1937
asCapt. Abner Drew
1938
asColonel Whitehead
1928
asBuck Gordon
1930
asHendricks
1940
asMarechal Sebastiani
1930
asSir Thomas Hanley
1930
asGene Dyke
1925
as
1926
asCount Giano Donati
1940
asWiseman Clagett
1933
asCaptain James alias The Fox
1940
asDelane
1920
asLarz Olrik
1916
asWilfred Barsley
1943
asSir John Bunn
1929
asFalon
1929
asMikhail
1932
asGroder
1932
asJohn Randolph
1928
as
1921
asFrederick Kent
1932
asMarquis of Steyne
1922
asMaldonado
1927
asGen. Vallero
1926
asPat Callaghan
1930
asAlexander W. Brett
1938
asAdmiral Cockburn
1932
asMichael Moore
1927
asGrand Duke Sergei
1937
asRatoffsky
1921
asColonel Ibbetson
1928
asFirst Mate
1917
as
1935
asCrusades Actor (uncredited)
1914
asPrince Florizel
1924
asSultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier
1921
asProf. Balzamo
1940
asNoble Bullerton
1929
asSir Bruce Haden
1929
asJohn Williams
1929
as
1929
asDr. Nelson
1919
asDick Vernon
1922
as
1937
asM. Cavaignac
1927
asFrederick Mimms
1922
asThe Schoolmaster
1932
asWalt Corson
1942
asChief Justice Chase
1924
asNative Chief
1924
asHugo Cady
1929
asWalter Sinclair
1915
as
1917
asJacques Revilly
1920
asDon Julian
1917
asJacques Cordet
1918
asDonald Graham
1915
asCrown Prince of Kurland
1916
asQuarrier
1919
asRodney Graham
1919
asAllen Granat
1917
as
1924
asHarrison Fields
1924
asBronson Gibbs
1920
asEdward Courtlandt
1927
asCaptain Simon Gant
1918
asJohn Fleming
1920
asPelton Vab Teel
1919
asJohn Masters
1919
asJohn Blake
1923
asScott Quaigg
1927
asJ.W. McKay
1915
as
1924
asThomas Mowry
Production
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