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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 15, 1880
Died
May 17, 1943
Place of Birth
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Harry Montague Love
- Montague Love
Montagu Love
0.3 Popularity
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
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Col. White
Torpedo of Doom
1966
6.0
Rev. Brontë
Devotion
1946
4.5
Jim Butler
Wings Over the Pacific
1943
6.1
Albert Sanger
The Constant Nymph
1943
7.4
Sir John Bunn
Forever and a Day
1943
6.1
Chief Justice Chase
Tennessee Johnson
1942
6.5
General Jerome Lawford
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942
6.8
General George Washington
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
5.2
Judge
Lady for a Night
1942
5.9
Dr. Blake
Shining Victory
1941
Credits
Torpedo of Doom
as Col. White
1966
0.0
Devotion
as Rev. Brontë
1946
6.0
Wings Over the Pacific
as Jim Butler
1943
4.5
The Constant Nymph
as Albert Sanger
1943
6.1
Forever and a Day
as Sir John Bunn
1943
7.4
Tennessee Johnson
as Chief Justice Chase
1942
6.1
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
as General Jerome Lawford
1942
6.5
The Remarkable Andrew
as General George Washington
1942
6.8
Lady for a Night
as Judge
1942
5.2
Shining Victory
as Dr. Blake
1941
5.9
The Devil and Miss Jones
as Harrison
1941
7.7
Hudson's Bay
as Governor D'Argenson
1940
5.8
The Son of Monte Cristo
as Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff
1940
5.9
The Mark of Zorro
as Don Alejandro Vega
1940
7.1
North West Mounted Police
as Inspector Cabot
1940
6.4
A Dispatch from Reuters
as Delane
1940
6.1
The Sea Hawk
as King Philip II
1940
7.2
All This, and Heaven Too
as Marechal Sebastiani
1940
7.2
Private Affairs
as Noble Bullerton
1940
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Northwest Passage
as Wiseman Clagett
1940
6.5
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Professor Hartmann
1940
6.5
The Lone Wolf Strikes
as Emil Gorlick
1940
6.3
We Are Not Alone
as Major Millman
1939
6.1
Rulers of the Sea
as Malcolm Grant
1939
6.5
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Spanish Ambassador
1939
7.1
Juarez
as Jose de Montares
1939
6.5
Sons of Liberty
as George Washington
1939
6.2
Gunga Din
as Colonel Weed
1939
6.5
If I Were King
as General Dudon
1938
6.8
Professor Beware
as Professor Schmutz
1938
6.1
Kidnapped
as Colonel Whitehead
1938
4.7
The Fighting Devil Dogs
as General White
1938
6.0
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Bishop of the Black Canons
1938
7.5
The Buccaneer
as Admiral Cockburn
1938
6.4
Tovarich
as M. Courtois
1937
6.2
Adventure's End
as Capt. Abner Drew
1937
5.0
A Damsel in Distress
as Lord Marshmorton
1937
6.5
The Life of Emile Zola
as M. Cavaignac
1937
6.7
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Detchard
1937
7.5
London by Night
as Sir Arthur Herrick
1937
5.9
Parnell
as William Ewart Gladstone
1937
4.1
The Prince and the Pauper
as Henry VIII
1937
6.8
One in a Million
as Ratoffsky
1937
6.8
Lloyd's of London
as Hawkins
1936
7.2
Reunion
as Sir Basil Crawford
1936
0.0
Sing, Baby, Sing
as Robert Wilson
1936
5.7
The White Angel
as Mr. Bullock
1936
7.2
Champagne Charlie
as Ivan Suchine
1936
4.8
Frankie and Johnnie
as Colonel Brand
1936
5.0
The Country Doctor
as Sir Basil Crawford
1936
6.0
Sutter's Gold
as Capt. Kettleson
1936
0.0
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as Director
1935
6.3
Hi, Gaucho!
as Hillario Bolario
1935
7.5
Hollywood Extra Girl
as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
1935
6.0
The Crusades
as The Blacksmith
1935
6.2
Clive of India
as Governor Pigot
1935
4.7
Limehouse Blues
as Pug Talbot
1934
3.7
Menace
as Police Inspector
1934
6.3
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The Expectant Father
1934
0.0
His Double Life
as Duncan Farrel
1933
6.4
At Twelve Midnight
as Captain James alias The Fox
1933
4.5
Out of Singapore
as Capt. Scar Murray
1932
4.0
The Midnight Lady
as Harvey Austin
1932
5.3
The Riding Tornado
as Walt Corson
1932
0.0
The Silver Lining
as Michael Moore
1932
0.0
Vanity Fair
as Marquis of Steyne
1932
3.5
Love Bound
as John Randolph
1932
3.6
Stowaway
as Groder
1932
5.0
Alexander Hamilton
as Thomas Jefferson
1931
4.0
The Lion and the Lamb
as Professor Tottie
1931
0.0
The Cat Creeps
as Hendricks
1930
6.0
Kismet
as The Jailer
1930
2.7
Reno
as Alexander W. Brett
1930
0.0
Outward Bound
as Mr. Lingley
1930
5.9
Inside the Lines
as Governor of Gibraltar
1930
5.1
Back Pay
as Charles Wheeler
1930
4.0
A Notorious Affair
as Sir Thomas Hanley
1930
4.0
Double Cross Roads
as Gene Dyke
1930
0.0
Love Comes Along
as Sangredo
1930
5.0
The Mysterious Island
as Mikhail
1929
5.2
The Mysterious Island
as Falon
1929
5.2
A Most Immoral Lady
as John Williams
1929
1.0
Her Private Life
as Sir Bruce Haden
1929
1.0
Charming Sinners
as George Whitley
1929
0.0
Midstream
as Dr. Nelson
1929
0.0
Bulldog Drummond
as Peterson
1929
6.5
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The Voice Within
1929
0.0
Silks and Saddles
as Walter Sinclair
1929
0.0
Synthetic Sin
as Brandy Mulane
1929
0.0
The Divine Lady
as Capt. Hardy
1928
5.2
The Last Warning
as Arthur McHugh
1928
6.7
The Haunted House
as Mad Doctor
1928
0.0
The Wind
as Roddy
1928
7.3
The Hawk's Nest
as Dan Daugherty
1928
0.0
Character Studies
1928
0.0
The Devil's Skipper
as First Mate
1928
0.0
The Noose
as Buck Gordon
1928
7.0
The Haunted Ship
as Captain Simon Gant
1927
0.0
Good Time Charley
as John Hartwell
1927
0.0
Jesse James
as Frederick Mimms
1927
0.0
Rose of the Golden West
as Gen. Vallero
1927
0.0
🎬
The Tender Hour
as Grand Duke Sergei
1927
0.0
The King of Kings
as Roman Centurion
1927
6.4
The Night of Love
as Duke de la Garda
1927
5.0
One Hour of Love
as J.W. McKay
1927
0.0
The Silent Lover
as Ben Achmed
1926
0.0
The Son of the Sheik
as Ghabah
1926
6.2
Don Juan
as Count Giano Donati
1926
6.4
Out of the Storm
as Timothy Keith
1926
0.0
🎬
Brooding Eyes
as Pat Callaghan
1926
0.0
Hands Up!
as Capt. Edward Logan
1926
5.2
🎬
The Desert's Price
as Jim Martin
1925
0.0
The Ancient Highway
as Ivan Hurd
1925
6.0
The Mad Marriage
1925
0.0
Sinners in Heaven
as Native Chief
1924
0.0
Love of Women
as Bronson Gibbs
1924
0.0
A Son of the Sahara
as Sultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier
1924
5.0
Who's Cheating?
as Harrison Fields
1924
0.0
Week End Husbands
as Thomas Mowry
1924
0.0
Roulette
as Dan Carrington
1924
0.0
🎬
Restless Wives
as Hugo Cady
1924
0.0
The Eternal City
as Minghelli
1923
6.0
The Leopardess
as Scott Quaigg
1923
0.0
Secrets of Paris
as The Schoolmaster
1922
0.0
What's Wrong with the Women?
as Arthur Belden
1922
0.0
The Beauty Shop
as Maldonado
1922
0.0
Love's Redemption
as Frederick Kent
1921
0.0
Forever
as Colonel Ibbetson
1921
0.0
The Case of Becky
as Prof. Balzamo
1921
0.0
The Place of Honeymoons
as Edward Courtlandt
1920
0.0
The Riddle: Woman
as Larz Olrik
1920
0.0
The World and His Wife
as Don Julian
1920
0.0
Man's Plaything
as Pelton Vab Teel
1920
0.0
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The Steel King
as John Blake
1919
0.0
Our Film Stars
1919
6.0
A Broadway Saint
as Dick Vernon
1919
0.0
Through the Toils
as Noel Graham / Lewis Moffat
1919
6.0
Three Green Eyes
as Allen Granat
1919
0.0
The Hand Invisible
as Rodney Graham
1919
0.0
The Rough Neck
as John Masters
1919
0.0
The Grouch
as Donald Graham
1918
0.0
The Cabaret
as Jaffrey Darrel
1918
0.0
Stolen Orders
as John Le Page
1918
0.0
The Cross Bearer
as Cardinal Mercier
1918
0.0
Broken Ties
as John Fleming
1918
0.0
The Volunteer
as Self - Cameo Appearance
1917
0.0
The Good for Nothing
1917
0.0
The Awakening
as Jacques Revilly
1917
0.0
🎬
The Dormant Power
1917
0.0
Rasputin, the Black Monk
as Gregory Novik / Rasputin
1917
0.0
The Brand of Satan
as Jacques Cordet
1917
0.0
Yankee Pluck
as Baron Wootchi
1917
0.0
Forget-Me-Not
as Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
1917
0.0
The Dancer's Peril
as Michael Pavloff
1917
0.0
The Challenge
as Quarrier
1916
0.0
The Men She Married
as Jerry Trainor
1916
0.0
The Scarlet Oath
as Nicholas Savaroff
1916
0.0
The Hidden Scar
as Henry Dalton
1916
0.0
The Gilded Cage
as Baron Stefano
1916
0.0
Husband and Wife
as Patrick Alliston
1916
1.0
A Woman's Way
as Oliver Whitney
1916
0.0
The Devil's Toy
as Wilfred Barsley
1916
0.0
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The Greater Will
as Stuart Watson
1915
0.0
A Royal Family
as Crown Prince of Kurland
1915
0.0
The Face in the Moonlight
1915
0.0
Hearts in Exile
1915
3.5
The Suicide Club
as Prince Florizel
1914
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