Montagu Love
from Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
from Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
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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).
Col. White
Rev. Brontë
Sir John Bunn
Albert Sanger
Jim Butler
Judge
General George Washington
General Jerome Lawford
Chief Justice Chase
Harrison
Dr. Blake
Emil Gorlick
Professor Hartmann
Wiseman Clagett
Noble Bullerton
Marechal Sebastiani
King Philip II
Delane
Inspector Cabot
Don Alejandro Vega
Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff
Governor D'Argenson
Colonel Weed
George Washington
Jose de Montares
Spanish Ambassador
Malcolm Grant
Major Millman
Admiral Cockburn
Bishop of the Black Canons
General White
Colonel Whitehead
Professor Schmutz
General Dudon
Ratoffsky
Henry VIII
William Ewart Gladstone
Sir Arthur Herrick
Detchard
M. Cavaignac
Lord Marshmorton
Capt. Abner Drew
M. Courtois
Capt. Kettleson
Sir Basil Crawford
Colonel Brand
Ivan Suchine
Mr. Bullock
Robert Wilson
Sir Basil Crawford
Hawkins
Governor Pigot
The Blacksmith
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
Hillario Bolario
Director
The Expectant Father
(Unknown)
Police Inspector
Pug Talbot
Captain James alias The Fox
Duncan Farrel
John Randolph
Groder
Marquis of Steyne
Michael Moore
Walt Corson
Harvey Austin
Capt. Scar Murray
Professor Tottie
Thomas Jefferson
Sangredo
Gene Dyke
Sir Thomas Hanley
Charles Wheeler
Governor of Gibraltar
Mr. Lingley
Alexander W. Brett
The Jailer
Hendricks
Brandy Mulane
Walter Sinclair
The Voice Within
(Unknown)
Peterson
Dr. Nelson
George Whitley
Sir Bruce Haden
John Williams
Mikhail
Buck Gordon
First Mate
(Unknown)
Dan Daugherty
Roddy
Mad Doctor
Arthur McHugh
Capt. Hardy
J.W. McKay
Duke de la Garda
Roman Centurion
The Tender Hour
Grand Duke Sergei
Gen. Vallero
Frederick Mimms
John Hartwell
Captain Simon Gant
Capt. Edward Logan
Brooding Eyes
Pat Callaghan
Timothy Keith
Ducket Nelson
Count Giano Donati
Ghabah
Ben Achmed
(Unknown)
Ivan Hurd
The Desert's Price
Jim Martin
Restless Wives
Hugo Cady
Dan Carrington
Thomas Mowry
Harrison Fields
Sultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier
Bronson Gibbs
Native Chief
Scott Quaigg
Minghelli
Maldonado
Arthur Belden
The Schoolmaster
Shams of Society
Herbert Porter
Prof. Balzamo
Colonel Ibbetson
Frederick Kent
Pelton Vab Teel
Don Julian
Larz Olrik
Edward Courtlandt
John Masters
Rodney Graham
John Steele
Allen Granat
Noel Graham / Lewis Moffat
Dick Vernon
Our Film Stars
(Unknown)
The Steel King
John Blake
John Fleming
Cardinal Mercier
John Le Page
Jaffrey Darrel
Donald Graham
Michael Pavloff
Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
Baron Wootchi
Jacques Cordet
Gregory Novik / Rasputin
The Dormant Power
(Unknown)
Jacques Revilly
(Unknown)
Self - Cameo Appearance
Wilfred Barsley
Oliver Whitney
Patrick Alliston
Count Varneloff
Baron Stefano
Henry Dalton
Nicholas Savaroff
Robert Stafford
Jerry Trainor
Quarrier
(Unknown)
(Unknown)
Crown Prince of Kurland
The Greater Will
Stuart Watson
Prince Florizel