Montagu Love
Acting
🎂 1880-03-15
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).
Cast credits(159)
Bishop of the Black Canons
1938
Ratoffsky
1937
Henry VIII
1937
Don Alejandro Vega
1940
Dr. Blake
1941
Wiseman Clagett
1940
Ivan Suchine
1936
King Philip II
1940
General Jerome Lawford
1942
Sir Basil Crawford
1936
Jose de Montares
1939
Duncan Farrel
1933
Spanish Ambassador
1939
George Washington
1939
Roddy
1928
Groder
1932
The Blacksmith
1935
Inspector Cabot
1940
Sir Arthur Herrick
1937
General White
1938
Colonel Weed
1939
Sir Basil Crawford
1936
Jim Martin
1925
Professor Schmutz
1938
Roman Centurion
1927
The Schoolmaster
1922
M. Cavaignac
1937
Hawkins
1936
Rev. Brontë
1946
Detchard
1937
Judge
1942
Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff
1940
Delane
1940
Robert Wilson
1936
Capt. Kettleson
1936
Mr. Bullock
1936
Professor Hartmann
1940
General George Washington
1942
Albert Sanger
1943
Malcolm Grant
1939
Capt. Abner Drew
1937
Marquis of Steyne
1932
Marechal Sebastiani
1940
Hendricks
1930
George Whitley
1929
M. Courtois
1937
Sir John Bunn
1943
Pug Talbot
1934
Mikhail
1929
Falon
1929
Count Giano Donati
1926
Governor Pigot
1935
William Ewart Gladstone
1937
Alexander W. Brett
1930
Governor D'Argenson
1941
Frederick Mimms
1927
General Dudon
1938
Harrison
1941
Crown Prince of Kurland
1915
Police Inspector
1934
Director
1935
Ghabah
1926
Sir Thomas Hanley
1930
Colonel Whitehead
1938
Capt. Hardy
1928
Major Millman
1939
Mad Doctor
1928
Capt. Edward Logan
1926
Gene Dyke
1930
Mr. Lingley
1930
Chief Justice Chase
1942
Sangredo
1930
Lord Marshmorton
1937
Emil Gorlick
1940
1925
Brandy Mulane
1929
Hillario Bolario
1935
Peterson
1929
Noble Bullerton
1940
Michael Moore
1932
Buck Gordon
1928
Gen. Vallero
1927
Captain James alias The Fox
1933
Thomas Jefferson
1931
Capt. Scar Murray
1932
The Jailer
1930
Admiral Cockburn
1938
Ben Achmed
1926
1917
Charles Wheeler
1930
1917
Pat Callaghan
1926
Governor of Gibraltar
1930
Duke de la Garda
1927
Timothy Keith
1926
Quarrier
1916
Native Chief
1924
Colonel Ibbetson
1921
Colonel Brand
1936
Harvey Austin
1932
1919
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
1935
Walt Corson
1932
Edward Courtlandt
1920
Michael Pavloff
1917
John Hartwell
1927
John Williams
1929
Col. White
1966
Donald Graham
1918
Rodney Graham
1919
Self - Cameo Appearance
1917
Harrison Fields
1924
Nicholas Savaroff
1916
John Randolph
1932
Hugo Cady
1924
First Mate
1928
Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
1917
Larz Olrik
1920
Don Julian
1920
Patrick Alliston
1916
John Fleming
1918
Sir Bruce Haden
1929
Maldonado
1922
Grand Duke Sergei
1927
Captain Simon Gant
1927
Arthur McHugh
1928
Baron Stefano
1916
1929
Noel Graham / Lewis Moffat
1919
Jerry Trainor
1916
Dan Carrington
1924
Henry Dalton
1916
Jacques Revilly
1917
Cardinal Mercier
1918
Bronson Gibbs
1924
Sultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier
1924
Jacques Cordet
1917
Minghelli
1923
Dick Vernon
1919
Frederick Kent
1921
Stuart Watson
1915
Walter Sinclair
1929
1915
Dr. Nelson
1929
Jim Butler
1943
Allen Granat
1919
Gregory Novik / Rasputin
1917
Prince Florizel
1914
Prof. Balzamo
1921
Ivan Hurd
1925
John Le Page
1918
Dan Daugherty
1928
1934
Jaffrey Darrel
1918
Oliver Whitney
1916
1922
Baron Wootchi
1917
Wilfred Barsley
1916
1928