Monte Blue
Acting
🎂 1887-01-10
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Monte Blue (January 11, 1887 – February 18, 1963) was a movie actor who began his career as a romantic leading man in the silent film era, and later progressed to character roles. Blue was born as Gerard Montgomery Bluefeather in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father was half French, half Cherokee Indian. One of five children, his father died and his mother could not raise five children alone. Along with another brother, they both admitted to the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home. This did not stop him working his way through to Purdue University. When growing up, Blue built up his physique to become a football player (he grew to six feet three inches tall). He not only played football, but he was also a fireman, railroad worker, coal miner, cowpuncher, ranch hand, circus rider, lumberjack, and finally, a day laborer at the studios of D. W. Griffith. He had no theatrical experience when he came to the screen. In his first movie, The Birth of a Nation (1915), he was a stuntman and an extra in the movie. In his next movie, he starred in another small part in the movie, Intolerance (1916). Gradually moving to supporting roles for both D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, Blue earned his breakthrough role as Danton in Orphans of the Storm, starring sisters, Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish. Then he rose to stardom as a rugged romantic lead along with top leading actresses such as Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, and Norma Shearer. His most prolific female screen partner was Marie Prevost with whom he made several films in the mid 20s at Warner Brothers. Blue's finest silent screen performance was as the alcoholic doctor who finds paradise in MGM's White Shadows in the South Seas (1928). Blue became one of the few silent stars to survive the talkie revolution. However, he lost his investments in the stock market crash of 1929. He rebuilt his career as a character actor, working until his retirement in 1954. One of his more memorable roles was the sheriff in Key Largo. He divorced his first wife in 1923 and married Tova Jansen in 1924. He had two children, Barbara Ann and Richard Monte. During the later part of his life, Monte Blue was an active Mason and the advance man for the Hamid-Morton Shrine Circus; while on business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he had a heart attack because of complications from influenza, dying at age 76. Monte Blue has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6286 Hollywood Blvd. Description above from the Wikipedia article Monte Blue, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast credits(224)
1959
Sheriff Stanton
1949
1955
1956
American (uncredited)
1943
1957
Self
1952
1951
1952
(uncredited)
1915
1954
Chief Sagamore
1950
Barlow
1939
Ben (uncredited)
1948
First Emigrant
1951
Indian (uncredited)
1939
The Strike Leader
1916
Capt. Tom King Sr.
1941
Gas Station Executive (uncredited)
1949
Sheriff Ben Wade
1948
Geronimo
1954
George, Sheriff
1949
Lerdo de Tajada
1939
Det. Sgt. Pluther (uncredited)
1950
Mate
1937
Doorman (uncredited)
1942
Indian
1940
Bert McNamee
1936
Lt. Drake
1951
Businessman with Hunter
1947
U.S. Marshal (uncredited)
1949
Cap Folsom
1938
Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
1929
Heckler (uncredited)
1943
Mike, Police Lieutenant
1946
Cop (uncredited)
1946
Chief Hunter
1949
Uncle Will
1953
Abner Elliott
1921
Brewster (uncredited)
1944
Dan Foster
1927
Colonel Drummond
1936
Marshal Evans
1940
Unga Khan
1936
Dr. Franz Braun
1924
Bartender in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
1943
Ned-U.S. Marshal
1945
Rance Davis
1941
Hamzulla Khan
1935
Police Chief Ramsey
1949
Man #2, Hoyt City
1941
Joe, Detective
1949
Cleve Andrews
1945
Pete Nash
1948
Yellow Weasel
1938
Messenger
1936
Barry Baline
1927
Turnkey (uncredited)
1948
Captain Norberg
1940
Mr. Cameron
1938
Gambler in "Lucky Guy"
1942
Sheriff
1936
Duval, aka Chief Tavibo
1936
High Priest (uncredited)
1940
Policeman in Car
1945
Policeman (uncredited)
1946
Fingerprint Expert
1935
Al Murray
1935
Dr. Matthew Lloyd
1928
Policeman
1942
Man in Audience (Uncredited)
1943
Al Jones
1925
Captain Moran
1938
Frank
1939
Buchanan 'Specs' White
1927
Pablo Slide Along
1940
Dr. Paul Giraud
1926
Jens Petersen
1943
Policeman at Union Hall (uncredited)
1942
Passenger (uncredited)
1938
Smiley
1933
Jean
1943
Broadcast Director (uncredited)
1946
Abdul Dhris
1944
Seaman (uncredited)
1943
Interpreter
1939
Dan Morton
1942
Moving Man (uncredited)
1947
Monte
1926
'Buck' Chevigee
1948
Charlie, alias Clint Houston
1938
John Brandt
1933
Jailer
1946
Pilot (uncredited)
1938
Lt. Allen
1934
Ernest Todd
1924
Jim Haverly
1951
Sheriff Jordan
1941
John Burke
1942
Benjamin Arnold
1937
Dick Lambert
1926
Bob Wilson / Bob Snobson
1925
McAuliffe (uncredited)
1941
Jeff Kane
1934
Kasim's Aide (uncredited)
1942
Undetermined Role
1938
John Sawyer
1951
Jim Hayes
1941
Deputy Joe
1949
Horse Rancher (uncredited)
1947
Gaston Fleury
1925
The Policeman
1947
Bohemian
1915
Ted Musgrove
1921
Deacon Jones
1949
RCMP Larry Doyle
1935
Hugo Mehl
1942
Bart Hammond
1937
The Colonel (uncredited)
1946
Cherokee
1939
Timberline
1947
The Chef (uncredited)
1945
The Sheriff
1950
Scrappy O'Brien
1943
Governor Don Sebastian Fernando
1947
Colonel
1941
Maxwell
1952
Billy Lounsberry
1919
Capt. Jeffrey
1949
Juan
1918
Danton
1921
Joe Daley
1929
Lone Eagle
1952
Norris - lake house caretaker
1947
Lefty O'Brien
1925
Jim Dirk
1920
Indian Jim
1937
Crone
1937
Train Passenger
1939
Rice - Curry's Partner
1950
Philip Baldwin
1923
The Super
1941
Love
1919
Sheriff
1954
Kent Merrill
1924
Sheriff Walker
1938
Tom Burke
1932
Happy Smith
1929
Bit Role
1943
Marshal Pete Coleman
1951
Martin 'Easy-Going' Sondes
1927
Zac Harrison
1927
Joe Stafford
1937
Edgar Prentice, aka Edgar Craig
1923
Guerd Larey
1935
Donald Thorne
1933
Kenneth Murdock
1934
Officer
1938
Jack Kells
1934
Mexican Joe Dominguez
1918
Stephen Winship
1923
Stage Manager (uncredited)
1946
Dave Wade
1930
Jean Gaspard Deburau
1924
Pepite La Joie
1935
Richard Goodloe
1922
Ben Mott
1941
Pvt. Vibbard
1918
Matthews, the undertaker (uncredited)
1942
Hammond
1939
Chetley 'Chet' Kasedon
1936
Devlin
1929
Dean Carter
1935
1918
Pedro Lupo
1918
John Kent Sr.
1936
Happy
1918
Assistant Hotel Manager (uncredited)
1916
Jack Fenton
1923
Monte
1929
Charles Carpenter
1924
Harry Atteridge
1919
Monte Collins
1929
Hugh Clayton
1928
Dick Martin
1932
Captain Dan stover
1924
American Doughboy
1918
Baron Michael Karsten
1937
Bartender (uncredited)
1916
Slim Carter
1917
Dan Hogan
1930
Kalitan
1919
Dr. Will Kennicott
1923
Mayme's Army boyfriend
1918
John Wyncote
1927
Peasant
1916
One of Wild Bill's Men (Uncredited)
1917
Flight Dispatcher
1942
Boone Stallard
1921
Owen Burke / Jerry Brent
1924
Peter Graham
1925
Lewis Dike
1924
Tom Darcy
1922
Joe Bowers
1917
Defender of the Alamo
1915
Clem Dillon
1935
Elmer Harmon
1922
(archive footage)
1952
Paul Granville
1924
Bob Hilton
1924
Jud
1916
Victor Gilpin
1917
Hodge Mason
1941
Donald Overton
1928
(uncredited)
1918
1927
Dan Tracy
1917
Tommy Dawes
1921
Ada's Brother
1915
1920
Wally Griggs
1921
Robert Emmet Hogan
1927
'The Killer' Jed
1918
Geoffrey West
1926