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).
Acted in 159
1960s
- 1966
Torpedo of Doom
Col. White
1940s
- 1946
Devotion
Rev. Brontë
- 1943
Wings Over the Pacific
Jim Butler
The Constant Nymph
Albert Sanger
Forever and a Day
Sir John Bunn
- 1942
Tennessee Johnson
Chief Justice Chase
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
General Jerome Lawford
The Remarkable Andrew
General George Washington
Lady for a Night
Judge
- 1941
Shining Victory
Dr. Blake
The Devil and Miss Jones
Harrison
- 1940
Hudson's Bay
Governor D'Argenson
A Dispatch from Reuters
Delane
Private Affairs
Noble Bullerton
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Professor Hartmann
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Emil Gorlick
1930s
- 1939
We Are Not Alone
Major Millman
Rulers of the Sea
Malcolm Grant
Sons of Liberty
George Washington
- 1938
If I Were King
General Dudon
Professor Beware
Professor Schmutz
The Fighting Devil Dogs
General White
The Buccaneer
Admiral Cockburn
- 1937
Tovarich
M. Courtois
Adventure's End
Capt. Abner Drew
A Damsel in Distress
Lord Marshmorton
London by Night
Sir Arthur Herrick
Parnell
William Ewart Gladstone
The Prince and the Pauper
Henry VIII
One in a Million
Ratoffsky
- 1936
Lloyd's of London
Hawkins
Reunion
Sir Basil Crawford
Sing, Baby, Sing
Robert Wilson
The White Angel
Mr. Bullock
Champagne Charlie
Ivan Suchine
Frankie and Johnnie
Colonel Brand
The Country Doctor
Sir Basil Crawford
Sutter's Gold
Capt. Kettleson
- 1935
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Director
Hi, Gaucho!
Hillario Bolario
Hollywood Extra Girl
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
The Crusades
The Blacksmith
Clive of India
Governor Pigot
- 1934
Limehouse Blues
Pug Talbot
Menace
Police Inspector
- 1933
His Double Life
Duncan Farrel
- 1932
Out of Singapore
Capt. Scar Murray
The Midnight Lady
Harvey Austin
The Riding Tornado
Walt Corson
The Silver Lining
Michael Moore
Vanity Fair
Marquis of Steyne
Stowaway
Groder
- 1931
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
The Lion and the Lamb
Professor Tottie
- 1930
The Cat Creeps
Hendricks
Kismet
The Jailer
Reno
Alexander W. Brett
Outward Bound
Mr. Lingley
Inside the Lines
Governor of Gibraltar
Back Pay
Charles Wheeler
A Notorious Affair
Sir Thomas Hanley
Double Cross Roads
Gene Dyke
Love Comes Along
Sangredo
1920s
- 1929
The Mysterious Island
Mikhail, Falon
A Most Immoral Lady
John Williams
Her Private Life
Sir Bruce Haden
Midstream
Dr. Nelson
Bulldog Drummond
Peterson
Silks and Saddles
Walter Sinclair
Synthetic Sin
Brandy Mulane
- 1928
The Divine Lady
Capt. Hardy
The Last Warning
Arthur McHugh
The Haunted House
Mad Doctor
The Hawk's Nest
Dan Daugherty
Character Studies
Movie
The Devil's Skipper
First Mate
- 1927
The Haunted Ship
Captain Simon Gant
Good Time Charley
John Hartwell
Jesse James
Frederick Mimms
Rose of the Golden West
Gen. Vallero
The Night of Love
Duke de la Garda
One Hour of Love
J.W. McKay
- 1926
The Silent Lover
Ben Achmed
The Son of the Sheik
Ghabah
The Social Highwayman
Ducket Nelson
Out of the Storm
Timothy Keith
Hands Up!
Capt. Edward Logan
- 1925
The Ancient Highway
Ivan Hurd
The Mad Marriage
Movie
- 1924
Sinners in Heaven
Native Chief
Love of Women
Bronson Gibbs
A Son of the Sahara
Sultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier
Who's Cheating?
Harrison Fields
Week End Husbands
Thomas Mowry
Roulette
Dan Carrington
- 1923
The Eternal City
Minghelli
The Leopardess
Scott Quaigg
- 1922
Secrets of Paris
The Schoolmaster
What's Wrong with the Women?
Arthur Belden
The Beauty Shop
Maldonado
- 1921
Love's Redemption
Frederick Kent
Forever
Colonel Ibbetson
The Case of Becky
Prof. Balzamo
- 1920
The Place of Honeymoons
Edward Courtlandt
The Riddle: Woman
Larz Olrik
The World and His Wife
Don Julian
Man's Plaything
Pelton Vab Teel
1910s
- 1919
A Broadway Saint
Dick Vernon
Through the Toils
Noel Graham / Lewis Moffat
Three Green Eyes
Allen Granat
The Quickening Flame
John Steele
The Hand Invisible
Rodney Graham
The Rough Neck
John Masters
- 1918
The Grouch
Donald Graham
The Cabaret
Jaffrey Darrel
Stolen Orders
John Le Page
The Cross Bearer
Cardinal Mercier
Broken Ties
John Fleming
- 1917
The Awakening
Jacques Revilly
Rasputin, the Black Monk
Gregory Novik / Rasputin
The Brand of Satan
Jacques Cordet
Yankee Pluck
Baron Wootchi
Forget-Me-Not
Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
The Dancer's Peril
Michael Pavloff
- 1916
The Challenge
Quarrier
The Men She Married
Jerry Trainor
Bought and Paid For
Robert Stafford
The Scarlet Oath
Nicholas Savaroff
The Hidden Scar
Henry Dalton
The Gilded Cage
Baron Stefano
Friday the 13th
Count Varneloff
Husband and Wife
Patrick Alliston
A Woman's Way
Oliver Whitney
The Devil's Toy
Wilfred Barsley
- 1915
A Royal Family
Crown Prince of Kurland
The Face in the Moonlight
Movie
Hearts in Exile
Movie
- 1914
The Suicide Club
Prince Florizel
Appearances1
1910s
- 1917
The Volunteer
Self - Cameo Appearance