Montagu Love
Acting
- Born:
- 1880-03-15
- Died:
- 1943-05-17
- Place of birth:
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
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
Filmography
Torpedo of Doom
Devotion
Wings Over the Pacific
The Constant Nymph
Forever and a Day
Tennessee Johnson
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
The Remarkable Andrew
Lady for a Night
Shining Victory
The Devil and Miss Jones
Hudson's Bay
The Son of Monte Cristo
The Mark of Zorro
North West Mounted Police
A Dispatch from Reuters
The Sea Hawk
All This, and Heaven Too
Private Affairs
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Northwest Passage
The Lone Wolf Strikes
We Are Not Alone
Rulers of the Sea
The Man in the Iron Mask
Juarez
Sons of Liberty
Gunga Din
If I Were King
Professor Beware
The Fighting Devil Dogs
Kidnapped
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Buccaneer
Tovarich
Adventure's End
A Damsel in Distress
The Life of Emile Zola
The Prisoner of Zenda
London by Night
Parnell
The Prince and the Pauper
One in a Million
Lloyd's of London
Reunion
Sing, Baby, Sing
The White Angel
Champagne Charlie
Frankie and Johnnie
The Country Doctor
Sutter's Gold
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Hi, Gaucho!
Hollywood Extra Girl
The Crusades
Clive of India
Limehouse Blues
Menace
The Expectant Father
His Double Life
At Twelve Midnight
Out of Singapore
The Midnight Lady
The Riding Tornado
The Silver Lining
Vanity Fair
Stowaway
Love Bound
Alexander Hamilton
The Lion and the Lamb
The Cat Creeps
Kismet
Reno
Outward Bound
Inside the Lines
Back Pay
A Notorious Affair
Double Cross Roads
Love Comes Along
The Mysterious Island
A Most Immoral Lady
Her Private Life
Charming Sinners
Midstream
Bulldog Drummond
The Voice Within
Silks and Saddles
Synthetic Sin
The Divine Lady
The Last Warning
The Haunted House
The Wind
The Hawk's Nest
Character Studies
The Devil's Skipper
The Noose
The Haunted Ship
Good Time Charley
Jesse James
Rose of the Golden West
The Tender Hour
The King of Kings
The Night of Love
One Hour of Love
The Silent Lover
The Son of the Sheik
Don Juan
The Social Highwayman
Out of the Storm
Brooding Eyes
Hands Up!
The Desert's Price
The Ancient Highway
The Mad Marriage
Sinners in Heaven
Love of Women
A Son of the Sahara
Who's Cheating?
Week End Husbands
Roulette
Restless Wives
The Eternal City
The Leopardess
Secrets of Paris
What's Wrong with the Women?
The Beauty Shop
Love's Redemption
Forever
The Case of Becky
Shams of Society
The Place of Honeymoons
The Riddle: Woman
The World and His Wife
Man's Plaything
The Steel King
Our Film Stars
A Broadway Saint
Through the Toils
Three Green Eyes
The Quickening Flame
The Hand Invisible
The Rough Neck
The Grouch
The Cabaret
Stolen Orders
The Cross Bearer
Broken Ties
The Volunteer
The Good for Nothing
The Awakening
The Dormant Power
Rasputin, the Black Monk
The Brand of Satan
Yankee Pluck
Forget-Me-Not
The Dancer's Peril
The Challenge
The Men She Married
Bought and Paid For
The Scarlet Oath
The Hidden Scar
The Gilded Cage
Friday the 13th
Husband and Wife
A Woman's Way
The Devil's Toy
The Greater Will
A Royal Family
The Face in the Moonlight
Hearts in Exile
The Suicide Club