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
Gregory Novik / Rasputin
Rasputin, the Black Monk
Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
Forget-Me-Not
Self - Cameo Appearance
The Volunteer
Bishop of the Black Canons
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Timothy Keith
Out of the Storm
Cardinal Mercier
The Cross Bearer
Roddy
The Wind
Colonel Weed
Gunga Din
Ben Achmed
The Silent Lover
General Jerome Lawford
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Stuart Watson
The Greater Will
Michael Pavloff
The Dancer's Peril
King Philip II
The Sea Hawk
Ivan Hurd
The Ancient Highway
Capt. Edward Logan
Hands Up!
Judge
Lady for a Night
Baron Stefano
The Gilded Cage
Col. White
Torpedo of Doom
Henry VIII
The Prince and the Pauper
M. Courtois
Tovarich
Harrison
The Devil and Miss Jones
Detchard
The Prisoner of Zenda
Lord Marshmorton
A Damsel in Distress
Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff
The Son of Monte Cristo
Peterson
Bulldog Drummond
Jim Martin
The Desert's Price
Hawkins
Lloyd's of London
Inspector Cabot
North West Mounted Police
Rev. Brontë
Devotion
Emil Gorlick
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Ghabah
The Son of the Sheik
General George Washington
The Remarkable Andrew
Jim Butler
Wings Over the Pacific
Mad Doctor
The Haunted House
Professor Hartmann
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Mr. Lingley
Outward Bound
Capt. Hardy
The Divine Lady
Governor D'Argenson
Hudson's Bay
General Dudon
If I Were King
Malcolm Grant
Rulers of the Sea
Duncan Farrel
His Double Life
Pug Talbot
Limehouse Blues
Director
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Jaffrey Darrel
The Cabaret
Charles Wheeler
Back Pay
Major Millman
We Are Not Alone
George Whitley
Charming Sinners
Harvey Austin
The Midnight Lady
Dan Carrington
Roulette
Capt. Scar Murray
Out of Singapore
The Expectant Father
Sir Arthur Herrick
London by Night
Sangredo
Love Comes Along
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
William Ewart Gladstone
Parnell
Dr. Blake
Shining Victory
George Washington
Sons of Liberty
General White
The Fighting Devil Dogs
Capt. Kettleson
Sutter's Gold
The Jailer
Kismet
Governor of Gibraltar
Inside the Lines
Arthur McHugh
The Last Warning
Sir Basil Crawford
The Country Doctor
Nicholas Savaroff
The Scarlet Oath
John Le Page
Stolen Orders
Baron Wootchi
Yankee Pluck
Minghelli
The Eternal City
Duke de la Garda
The Night of Love
Brandy Mulane
Synthetic Sin
Governor Pigot
Clive of India
John Hartwell
Good Time Charley
Robert Wilson
Sing, Baby, Sing
Sir Basil Crawford
Reunion
Onze Filmsterren
Hillario Bolario
Hi, Gaucho!
Noel Graham / Lewis Moffat
Through the Toils
Roman Centurion
The King of Kings
Albert Sanger
The Constant Nymph
Don Alejandro Vega
The Mark of Zorro
Dan Daugherty
The Hawk's Nest
Mr. Bullock
The White Angel
Jerry Trainor
The Men She Married
Ivan Suchine
Champagne Charlie
Colonel Brand
Frankie and Johnnie
Police Inspector
Menace
Jose de Montares
Juarez
The Blacksmith
The Crusades
Spanish Ambassador
The Man in the Iron Mask
Professor Schmutz
Professor Beware
Henry Dalton
The Hidden Scar
Patrick Alliston
Husband and Wife
Oliver Whitney
A Woman's Way
Capt. Abner Drew
Adventure's End
Colonel Whitehead
Kidnapped
Buck Gordon
The Noose
Hendricks
The Cat Creeps
Marechal Sebastiani
All This, and Heaven Too
Sir Thomas Hanley
A Notorious Affair
Gene Dyke
Double Cross Roads
The Mad Marriage
Count Giano Donati
Don Juan
Wiseman Clagett
Northwest Passage
Captain James alias The Fox
At Twelve Midnight
Delane
A Dispatch from Reuters
Wilfred Barsley
The Devil's Toy
Larz Olrik
The Riddle: Woman
Sir John Bunn
Forever and a Day
Mikhail
The Mysterious Island
Falon
The Mysterious Island
Groder
Stowaway
John Randolph
Love Bound
Character Studies
Frederick Kent
Love's Redemption
Marquis of Steyne
Vanity Fair
Maldonado
The Beauty Shop
Gen. Vallero
Rose of the Golden West
Pat Callaghan
Brooding Eyes
Alexander W. Brett
Reno
Admiral Cockburn
The Buccaneer
Michael Moore
The Silver Lining
Grand Duke Sergei
The Tender Hour
Ratoffsky
One in a Million
Colonel Ibbetson
Forever
First Mate
The Devil's Skipper
The Dormant Power
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
Hollywood Extra Girl
Prince Florizel
The Suicide Club
Sultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier
A Son of the Sahara
Prof. Balzamo
The Case of Becky
Noble Bullerton
Private Affairs
Sir Bruce Haden
Her Private Life
The Voice Within
John Williams
A Most Immoral Lady
Dr. Nelson
Midstream
Dick Vernon
A Broadway Saint
What's Wrong with the Women?
M. Cavaignac
The Life of Emile Zola
Frederick Mimms
Jesse James
The Schoolmaster
Secrets of Paris
Walt Corson
The Riding Tornado
Chief Justice Chase
Tennessee Johnson
Native Chief
Sinners in Heaven
Hugo Cady
Restless Wives
Walter Sinclair
Silks and Saddles
Hearts in Exile
Jacques Revilly
The Awakening
Don Julian
The World and His Wife
Jacques Cordet
The Brand of Satan
Donald Graham
The Grouch
Crown Prince of Kurland
A Royal Family
Quarrier
The Challenge
Rodney Graham
The Hand Invisible
Allen Granat
Three Green Eyes
The Good for Nothing
Harrison Fields
Who's Cheating?
Bronson Gibbs
Love of Women
Edward Courtlandt
The Place of Honeymoons
Captain Simon Gant
The Haunted Ship
John Fleming
Broken Ties
Pelton Vab Teel
Man's Plaything
John Masters
The Rough Neck
John Blake
The Steel King
Scott Quaigg
The Leopardess
J.W. McKay
One Hour of Love
The Face in the Moonlight
Thomas Mowry
Week End Husbands
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
166
Gender
Male
Birthday
1880-03-15
Place of Birth
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
Also Known As
Harry Montague Love