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(223)
1955
Self
1952
1951
1952
1956
1959
1954
Sheriff Stanton
1949
1957
American (uncredited)
1943
Dr. Paul Giraud
1926
(uncredited)
1915
The Policeman
1947
The Strike Leader
1916
Sheriff Ben Wade
1948
Geronimo
1954
Turnkey (uncredited)
1948
Barlow
1939
Gas Station Executive (uncredited)
1949
Unga Khan
1936
Kenneth Murdock
1934
Deacon Jones
1949
Fingerprint Expert
1935
Indian (uncredited)
1939
First Emigrant
1951
Danton
1921
U.S. Marshal (uncredited)
1949
Norris - lake house caretaker
1947
Kasim's Aide (uncredited)
1942
Doorman (uncredited)
1942
Jens Petersen
1943
Heckler (uncredited)
1943
John Brandt
1933
Cleve Andrews
1945
Sheriff Jordan
1941
High Priest (uncredited)
1940
Det. Sgt. Pluther (uncredited)
1950
Interpreter
1939
Jean
1943
Gambler in "Lucky Guy"
1942
Charlie, alias Clint Houston
1938
Lerdo de Tajada
1939
Messenger
1936
Cop (uncredited)
1946
Moving Man (uncredited)
1947
Seaman (uncredited)
1943
Indian
1940
Ben (uncredited)
1948
Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
1929
Marshal Evans
1940
Rance Davis
1941
Businessman with Hunter
1947
Abner Elliott
1921
Man in Audience (Uncredited)
1943
Cap Folsom
1938
Maxwell
1952
Bartender in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
1943
Captain Moran
1938
Abdul Dhris
1944
Mate
1937
Dan Morton
1942
Pepite La Joie
1935
Dr. Franz Braun
1924
Policeman (uncredited)
1946
Policeman in Car
1945
Mike, Police Lieutenant
1946
McAuliffe (uncredited)
1941
Lone Eagle
1952
Pablo Slide Along
1940
Hamzulla Khan
1935
Victor Gilpin
1917
Happy
1918
Lewis Dike
1924
Man #2, Hoyt City
1941
The Chef (uncredited)
1945
Frank
1939
Colonel
1941
Ben Mott
1941
Smiley
1933
John Burke
1942
John Wyncote
1927
Bit Role
1943
Marshal Pete Coleman
1951
Guerd Larey
1935
Policeman at Union Hall (uncredited)
1942
Dr. Will Kennicott
1923
Jeff Kane
1934
Timberline
1947
Broadcast Director (uncredited)
1946
The Sheriff
1950
'Buck' Chevigee
1948
Stephen Winship
1923
Joe, Detective
1949
George, Sheriff
1949
Chief Sagamore
1950
Mr. Cameron
1938
Al Murray
1935
Uncle Will
1953
Capt. Jeffrey
1949
Bart Hammond
1937
Monte
1926
Joe Stafford
1937
Jean Gaspard Deburau
1924
Jim Haverly
1951
Chief Hunter
1949
Stage Manager (uncredited)
1946
Joe Daley
1929
Benjamin Arnold
1937
One of Wild Bill's Men (Uncredited)
1917
Matthews, the undertaker (uncredited)
1942
Paul Granville
1924
Jim Dirk
1920
Billy Lounsberry
1919
Pilot (uncredited)
1938
Sheriff
1936
Passenger (uncredited)
1938
Train Passenger
1939
Charles Carpenter
1924
Lt. Allen
1934
Dan Hogan
1930
Pvt. Vibbard
1918
Police Chief Ramsey
1949
Juan
1918
Assistant Hotel Manager (uncredited)
1916
Lt. Drake
1951
Jack Kells
1934
Edgar Prentice, aka Edgar Craig
1923
Hugh Clayton
1928
Sheriff Walker
1938
Dick Lambert
1926
Gaston Fleury
1925
Hugo Mehl
1942
American Doughboy
1918
Undetermined Role
1938
Dean Carter
1935
Duval, aka Chief Tavibo
1936
Peasant
1916
Officer
1938
Tom Burke
1932
Defender of the Alamo
1915
Pete Nash
1948
Policeman
1942
Al Jones
1925
Jailer
1946
Rice - Curry's Partner
1950
Chetley 'Chet' Kasedon
1936
Captain Dan stover
1924
Mexican Joe Dominguez
1918
Capt. Tom King Sr.
1941
Cherokee
1939
Flight Dispatcher
1942
Indian Jim
1937
The Colonel (uncredited)
1946
Dick Martin
1932
Crone
1937
John Sawyer
1951
Lefty O'Brien
1925
Jim Hayes
1941
Monte
1929
RCMP Larry Doyle
1935
Ted Musgrove
1921
Owen Burke / Jerry Brent
1924
Yellow Weasel
1938
Horse Rancher (uncredited)
1947
1927
Dr. Matthew Lloyd
1928
Dan Tracy
1917
Brewster (uncredited)
1944
John Kent Sr.
1936
Tommy Dawes
1921
Dave Wade
1930
Devlin
1929
Sheriff
1954
Baron Michael Karsten
1937
1918
Happy Smith
1929
'The Killer' Jed
1918
Richard Goodloe
1922
Governor Don Sebastian Fernando
1947
Dan Foster
1927
(archive footage)
1952
Colonel Drummond
1936
Jack Fenton
1923
The Super
1941
Philip Baldwin
1923
Bob Wilson / Bob Snobson
1925
(uncredited)
1918
Bohemian
1915
Captain Norberg
1940
Pedro Lupo
1918
Scrappy O'Brien
1943
Ernest Todd
1924
Slim Carter
1917
Geoffrey West
1926
Ned-U.S. Marshal
1945
Love
1919
1920
Deputy Joe
1949
Monte Collins
1929
Harry Atteridge
1919
Clem Dillon
1935
Zac Harrison
1927
Boone Stallard
1921
Mayme's Army boyfriend
1918
Donald Thorne
1933
Bob Hilton
1924
Donald Overton
1928
Martin 'Easy-Going' Sondes
1927
Bartender (uncredited)
1916
Bert McNamee
1936
Kent Merrill
1924
Hodge Mason
1941
Kalitan
1919
Jud
1916
Hammond
1939
Peter Graham
1925
Elmer Harmon
1922
Tom Darcy
1922
Wally Griggs
1921
Robert Emmet Hogan
1927
Barry Baline
1927
Buchanan 'Specs' White
1927
Joe Bowers
1917