Montagu Love

Also Known As: Harry Montague Love, Montague Love

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).

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK

Birthday: March 15, 1880

Deathday: May 17, 1943

Adult: No

Gender: Male

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Known For:

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