Acting
148
Man
Mar 15, 1880
May 17, 1943 (63)
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
Montagu Love
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).
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1966 | Torpedo of Doom | Col. White |
1946 | Devotion | Rev. Brontë |
1943 | The Constant Nymph | Albert Sanger |
1943 | Forever and a Day | Sir John Bunn |
1943 | Wings Over the Pacific | Jim Butler |
1942 | Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror | General Jerome Lawford |
1942 | Lady for a Night | Judge |
1942 | Tennessee Johnson | Chief Justice Chase |
1942 | The Remarkable Andrew | General George Washington |
1941 | The Devil and Miss Jones | Harrison |
1941 | Hudson's Bay | Governor D'Argenson |
1941 | Shining Victory | Dr. Blake |
1940 | The Mark of Zorro | Don Alejandro Vega |
1940 | The Sea Hawk | King Philip II |
1940 | Northwest Passage | Wiseman Clagett |
1940 | All This, and Heaven Too | Marechal Sebastiani |
1940 | North West Mounted Police | Inspector Cabot |
1940 | Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet | Professor Hartmann |
1940 | A Dispatch from Reuters | Delane |
1940 | The Son of Monte Cristo | Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff |
1940 | The Lone Wolf Strikes | Emil Gorlick |
1940 | Private Affairs | Noble Bullerton |
1939 | Gunga Din | Colonel Weed |
1939 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Spanish Ambassador |
1939 | Juarez | Jose de Montares |
1939 | Sons of Liberty | George Washington |
1939 | We Are Not Alone | Major Millman |
1939 | Rulers of the Sea | Malcolm Grant |
1938 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Bishop of the Black Canons |
1938 | If I Were King | General Dudon |
1938 | The Buccaneer | Admiral Cockburn |
1938 | Professor Beware | Professor Schmutz |
1938 | Kidnapped | Colonel Whitehead |
1938 | The Fighting Devil Dogs | General White |
1937 | The Life of Emile Zola | M. Cavaignac |
1937 | The Prisoner of Zenda | Detchard |
1937 | The Prince and the Pauper | Henry VIII |
1937 | A Damsel in Distress | Lord Marshmorton |
1937 | Parnell | William Ewart Gladstone |
1937 | London by Night | Sir Arthur Herrick |
1937 | Tovarich | M. Courtois |
1937 | One in a Million | Ratoffsky |
1937 | Adventure's End | Capt. Abner Drew |
1936 | Lloyd's of London | Hawkins |
1936 | The White Angel | Mr. Bullock |
1936 | Champagne Charlie | Ivan Suchine |
1936 | The Country Doctor | Sir Basil Crawford |
1936 | Sing, Baby, Sing | Robert Wilson |
1936 | Frankie and Johnnie | Colonel Brand |
1936 | Sutter's Gold | Capt. Kettleson |
1936 | Reunion | Sir Basil Crawford |
1935 | The Crusades | The Blacksmith |
1935 | Clive of India | Governor Pigot |
1935 | The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo | Director |
1935 | Hi, Gaucho! | Hillario Bolario |
1935 | Hollywood Extra Girl | Crusades Actor (uncredited) |
1934 | Limehouse Blues | Pug Talbot |
1934 | Menace | Police Inspector |
1934 | The Expectant Father | |
1933 | His Double Life | Duncan Farrel |
1933 | At Twelve Midnight | Captain James alias The Fox |
1932 | Love Bound | John Randolph |
1932 | The Midnight Lady | Harvey Austin |
1932 | Vanity Fair | Marquis of Steyne |
1932 | Out of Singapore | Capt. Scar Murray |
1932 | Stowaway | Groder |
1932 | The Silver Lining | Michael Moore |
1932 | The Riding Tornado | Walt Corson |
1931 | Alexander Hamilton | Thomas Jefferson |
1930 | Outward Bound | Mr. Lingley |
1930 | Inside the Lines | Governor of Gibraltar |
1930 | A Notorious Affair | Sir Thomas Hanley |
1930 | Back Pay | Charles Wheeler |
1930 | Kismet | The Jailer |
1930 | Love Comes Along | Sangredo |
1930 | The Cat Creeps | Hendricks |
1930 | Double Cross Roads | Gene Dyke |
1930 | Reno | Alexander W. Brett |
1929 | Bulldog Drummond | Peterson |
1929 | The Mysterious Island | Falon |
1929 | The Mysterious Island | Mikhail |
1929 | Her Private Life | Sir Bruce Haden |
1929 | A Most Immoral Lady | John Williams |
1929 | Charming Sinners | George Whitley |
1929 | Synthetic Sin | Brandy Mulane |
1929 | The Voice Within | |
1929 | Midstream | Dr. Nelson |
1929 | Silks and Saddles | Walter Sinclair |
1928 | The Wind | Roddy |
1928 | The Divine Lady | Capt. Hardy |
1928 | The Last Warning | Arthur McHugh |
1928 | The Haunted House | Mad Doctor |
1928 | The Hawk's Nest | Dan Daugherty |
1928 | The Noose | Buck Gordon |
1928 | Character Studies | |
1928 | The Devil's Skipper | First Mate |
1927 | The King of Kings | Roman Centurion |
1927 | The Night of Love | Duke de la Garda |
1927 | Good Time Charley | John Hartwell |
1927 | Rose of the Golden West | Gen. Vallero |
1927 | The Tender Hour | Grand Duke Sergei |
1927 | Jesse James | Frederick Mimms |
1926 | The Son of the Sheik | Ghabah |
1926 | Don Juan | Count Giano Donati |
1926 | Hands Up! | Capt. Edward Logan |
1926 | Out of the Storm | Timothy Keith |
1926 | The Silent Lover | Ben Achmed |
1926 | Brooding Eyes | Pat Callaghan |
1925 | The Ancient Highway | Ivan Hurd |
1925 | The Desert's Price | Jim Martin |
1925 | The Mad Marriage | |
1924 | A Son of the Sahara | Sultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier |
1924 | Roulette | Dan Carrington |
1924 | Sinners in Heaven | Native Chief |
1924 | Restless Wives | Hugo Cady |
1923 | The Eternal City | Minghelli |
1922 | The Beauty Shop | Maldonado |
1922 | What's Wrong with the Women? | |
1922 | Secrets of Paris | The Schoolmaster |
1921 | Love's Redemption | Frederick Kent |
1921 | Forever | Colonel Ibbetson |
1921 | The Case of Becky | Prof. Balzamo |
1920 | The Riddle: Woman | Larz Olrik |
1920 | The World and His Wife | Don Julian |
1919 | Our Film Stars | |
1919 | Through the Toils | Noel Graham / Lewis Moffat |
1919 | A Broadway Saint | Dick Vernon |
1918 | The Cross Bearer | Cardinal Mercier |
1918 | The Cabaret | Jaffrey Darrel |
1918 | Stolen Orders | John Le Page |
1917 | Forget-Me-Not | Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato |
1917 | The Volunteer | Self - Cameo Appearance |
1917 | Rasputin, the Black Monk | Gregory Novik / Rasputin |
1917 | The Dancer's Peril | Michael Pavloff |
1917 | Yankee Pluck | Baron Wootchi |
1917 | The Dormant Power | |
1917 | The Awakening | Jacques Revilly |
1917 | The Brand of Satan | Jacques Cordet |
1916 | Husband and Wife | Patrick Alliston |
1916 | The Gilded Cage | Baron Stefano |
1916 | The Scarlet Oath | Nicholas Savaroff |
1916 | The Men She Married | Jerry Trainor |
1916 | The Hidden Scar | Henry Dalton |
1916 | A Woman's Way | Oliver Whitney |
1916 | The Devil's Toy | Wilfred Barsley |
1915 | Hearts in Exile | |
1915 | The Greater Will | Stuart Watson |
1914 | The Suicide Club |