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