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).
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1880-03-15
Place of birth
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
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Cast
Forget-Me-Not
1917
0.00
The Volunteer
1917
0.00
Rasputin, the Black Monk
1917
0.00
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
7.50
Out of the Storm
1926
0.00
The Cross Bearer
1918
0.00
The Wind
1928
7.30
Gunga Din
1939
6.50
The Silent Lover
1926
0.00
The Greater Will
1915
0.00
The Dancer's Peril
1917
0.00
The Sea Hawk
1940
7.16
The Ancient Highway
1925
6.00
Hands Up!
1926
5.20
Lady for a Night
1942
5.20
The Gilded Cage
1916
0.00
Torpedo of Doom
1966
0.00
The Prince and the Pauper
1937
6.80
Tovarich
1937
6.20
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941
7.70
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937
7.46
A Damsel in Distress
1937
6.50
The Son of Monte Cristo
1940
5.90
Bulldog Drummond
1929
6.50
The Desert's Price
1925
0.00
Lloyd's of London
1936
7.22
North West Mounted Police
1940
6.35
Devotion
1946
6.00
The Lone Wolf Strikes
1940
6.30
The Son of the Sheik
1926
6.20
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
8.20
Wings Over the Pacific
1943
4.50
The Haunted House
1928
0.00
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940
6.40
Outward Bound
1930
5.90
The Divine Lady
1928
5.16
Hudson's Bay
1940
5.80
If I Were King
1938
6.80
Rulers of the Sea
1939
6.50
His Double Life
1933
6.40
Limehouse Blues
1934
3.71
The Cabaret
1918
0.00
Back Pay
1930
4.00
We Are Not Alone
1939
6.10
Charming Sinners
1929
0.00
The Midnight Lady
1932
5.30
Roulette
1924
0.00
Out of Singapore
1932
4.00
The Expectant Father
1934
0.00
London by Night
1937
5.90
Love Comes Along
1930
5.00
Alexander Hamilton
1931
4.00
Parnell
1937
4.13
Shining Victory
1941
5.90
Sons of Liberty
1939
6.20
The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938
6.00
Sutter's Gold
1936
0.00
Kismet
1930
2.67
Inside the Lines
1930
5.10
The Last Warning
1928
6.70
The Country Doctor
1936
6.00
The Scarlet Oath
1916
0.00
Stolen Orders
1918
0.00
Yankee Pluck
1917
0.00
The Eternal City
1923
6.00
The Night of Love
1927
5.00
Synthetic Sin
1929
0.00
Clive of India
1935
4.70
Good Time Charley
1927
0.00
Sing, Baby, Sing
1936
5.67
Reunion
1936
0.00
Our Film Stars
1919
6.00
Hi, Gaucho!
1935
7.50
Through the Toils
1919
6.00
The King of Kings
1927
6.40
The Constant Nymph
1943
6.10
The Mark of Zorro
1940
7.10
The Hawk's Nest
1928
0.00
The White Angel
1936
7.20
The Men She Married
1916
0.00
Champagne Charlie
1936
4.80
Frankie and Johnnie
1936
5.00
Menace
1934
6.33
Juarez
1939
6.50
The Crusades
1935
6.20
The Man in the Iron Mask
1939
7.07
Professor Beware
1938
6.10
The Hidden Scar
1916
0.00
Husband and Wife
1916
1.00
A Woman's Way
1916
0.00
Adventure's End
1937
5.00
Kidnapped
1938
4.70
The Noose
1928
7.00
The Cat Creeps
1930
6.00
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
7.20
A Notorious Affair
1930
4.00
Double Cross Roads
1930
0.00
The Mad Marriage
1925
0.00
Don Juan
1926
6.43
Northwest Passage
1940
6.50
At Twelve Midnight
1933
4.50
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940
5.80
The Riddle: Woman
1920
0.00
The Devil's Toy
1916
0.00
Forever and a Day
1943
7.40
The Mysterious Island
1929
5.17
The Mysterious Island
1929
5.17
Stowaway
1932
5.00
Love Bound
1932
3.63
Character Studies
1928
0.00
Love's Redemption
1921
0.00
Vanity Fair
1932
4.00
The Beauty Shop
1922
0.00
Rose of the Golden West
1927
0.00
Brooding Eyes
1926
0.00
Reno
1930
0.00
The Buccaneer
1938
6.40
The Silver Lining
1932
0.00
The Tender Hour
1927
0.00
One in a Million
1937
6.80
Forever
1921
0.00
The Devil's Skipper
1928
0.00
The Dormant Power
1917
0.00
Hollywood Extra Girl
1935
6.00
The Suicide Club
1914
0.00
A Son of the Sahara
1924
5.00
The Case of Becky
1921
0.00
Private Affairs
1940
0.00
Her Private Life
1929
1.00
A Most Immoral Lady
1929
1.00
The Voice Within
1929
0.00
Midstream
1929
0.00
A Broadway Saint
1919
0.00
What's Wrong with the Women?
1922
0.00
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
6.70
Jesse James
1927
0.00
Secrets of Paris
1922
0.00
The Riding Tornado
1932
0.00
Tennessee Johnson
1942
6.10
Sinners in Heaven
1924
0.00
Restless Wives
1924
0.00
Silks and Saddles
1929
0.00
Hearts in Exile
1915
3.50
The Awakening
1917
0.00
The World and His Wife
1920
0.00
The Brand of Satan
1917
0.00
The Grouch
1918
0.00
A Royal Family
1915
0.00
The Challenge
1916
0.00
The Hand Invisible
1919
0.00
Three Green Eyes
1919
0.00
The Good for Nothing
1917
0.00
Who's Cheating?
1924
0.00
Love of Women
1924
0.00
The Place of Honeymoons
1920
0.00
The Haunted Ship
1927
0.00
Broken Ties
1918
0.00
Man's Plaything
1920
0.00
The Rough Neck
1919
0.00
The Steel King
1919
0.00
The Leopardess
1923
0.00
One Hour of Love
1927
0.00
The Face in the Moonlight
1915
0.00
Week End Husbands
1924
0.00