Acting
Monte Blue
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.
Filmography
Rawhide
Series · 1959
26 Men
Series · 1957
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Series · 1956
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Series · 1955
Apache
Film · 1954
Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush
Film · 1954
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Series · 1954
The Last Posse
Film · 1953
Ride, Vaquero!
Film · 1953
Rose of Cimarron
Film · 1952
Hangman's Knot
Film · 1952
Trail of the Arrow
Film · 1952
This Is Your Life
Series · 1952
Mr. & Mrs. North
Series · 1952
Three Desperate Men
Film · 1951
Warpath
Film · 1951
Gold Raiders
Film · 1951
Snake River Desperadoes
Film · 1951
The Sea Hornet
Film · 1951
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Series · 1951
Backfire
Film · 1950
This Side of the Law
Film · 1950
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
Film · 1950
The Iroquois Trail
Film · 1950
Montana
Film · 1950
Flaxy Martin
Film · 1949
Homicide
Film · 1949
Colorado Territory
Film · 1949
The Younger Brothers
Film · 1949
Ranger of Cherokee Strip
Film · 1949
South of St. Louis
Film · 1949
The Big Wheel
Film · 1949
The Blonde Bandit
Film · 1949
The Fountainhead
Film · 1949
The Lone Ranger
Series · 1949
Key Largo
Film · 1948
Johnny Belinda
Film · 1948
Silver River
Film · 1948
Two Guys from Texas
Film · 1948
Adventures of Don Juan
Film · 1948
Possessed
Film · 1947
Life with Father
Film · 1947
Cheyenne
Film · 1947
Bells of San Fernando
Film · 1947
Humoresque
Film · 1947
Stallion Road
Film · 1947
The Unfaithful
Film · 1947
Shadow of a Woman
Film · 1946
Cinderella Jones
Film · 1946
Two Guys from Milwaukee
Film · 1946
The Time, The Place and The Girl
Film · 1946
Never Say Goodbye
Film · 1946
So You Want to Play the Horses
Film · 1946
The Man I Love
Film · 1946
The Horn Blows at Midnight
Film · 1945
San Antonio
Film · 1945
Danger Signal
Film · 1945
Frontier Days
Film · 1945
The Mask of Dimitrios
Film · 1944
Trial by Trigger
Film · 1944
The Conspirators
Film · 1944
Passage to Marseille
Film · 1944
Northern Pursuit
Film · 1943
Truck Busters
Film · 1943
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Film · 1943
Casablanca
Film · 1943
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Film · 1943
Action in the North Atlantic
Film · 1943
Edge of Darkness
Film · 1943
Mission to Moscow
Film · 1943
The Hard Way
Film · 1943
The Hidden Hand
Film · 1942
Across the Pacific
Film · 1942
Secret Enemies
Film · 1942
My Favorite Blonde
Film · 1942
Gentleman Jim
Film · 1942
North to the Klondike
Film · 1942
Klondike Fury
Film · 1942
I Married a Witch
Film · 1942
The Remarkable Andrew
Film · 1942
Road to Morocco
Film · 1942
Treat 'Em Rough
Film · 1942
Bad Man of Deadwood
Film · 1941
King of the Texas Rangers
Film · 1941
The Great Train Robbery
Film · 1941
Sunset in Wyoming
Film · 1941
Riders of Death Valley
Film · 1941
Law of the Timber
Film · 1941
The Great Man's Lady
Film · 1941
New York Town
Film · 1941
Pacific Blackout
Film · 1941
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Film · 1941
Young Bill Hickok
Film · 1940
Mystery Sea Raider
Film · 1940
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Film · 1940
North West Mounted Police
Film · 1940
Road to Singapore
Film · 1940
Dodge City
Film · 1939
Frontier Pony Express
Film · 1939
Juarez
Film · 1939
Union Pacific
Film · 1939
Days of Jesse James
Film · 1939
Port of Hate
Film · 1939
Geronimo
Film · 1939
Our Leading Citizen
Film · 1939
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Film · 1938
Hawk of the Wilderness
Film · 1938
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Film · 1938
The Mysterious Rider
Film · 1938
Rebellious Daughters
Film · 1938
Illegal Traffic
Film · 1938
Cocoanut Grove
Film · 1938
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Film · 1938
Touchdown, Army
Film · 1938
King of Alcatraz
Film · 1938
Born to the West
Film · 1937
Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
Film · 1937
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Film · 1937
Secret Agent X-9
Film · 1937
Amateur Crook
Film · 1937
Sky Racket
Film · 1937
Souls at Sea
Film · 1937
Hell Town
Film · 1937
Thunder Trail
Film · 1937
Ride, Ranger, Ride
Film · 1936
Song of the Gringo
Film · 1936
Treachery Rides the Range
Film · 1936
Desert Gold
Film · 1936
Prison Shadows
Film · 1936
Mary of Scotland
Film · 1936
A Million to One
Film · 1936
Sharad of Atlantis
Film · 1936
Undersea Kingdom
Series · 1936
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Film · 1935
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Film · 1935
Nevada
Film · 1935
The Test
Film · 1935
On Probation
Film · 1935
'G' Men
Film · 1935
Social Error
Film · 1935
Trails of the Wild
Film · 1935
Wagon Wheels
Film · 1934
Student Tour
Film · 1934
The Last Round-up
Film · 1934
Come On, Marines!
Film · 1934
Buffalo Stampede
Film · 1933
The Intruder
Film · 1933
Her Forgotten Past
Film · 1933
Officer Thirteen
Film · 1932
The Stoker
Film · 1932
The Flood
Film · 1931
Those Who Dance
Film · 1930
Isle of Escape
Film · 1930
Tiger Rose
Film · 1929
Skin Deep
Film · 1929
The Show of Shows
Film · 1929
The Greyhound Limited
Film · 1929
No Defense
Film · 1929
From Headquarters
Film · 1929
White Shadows in the South Seas
Film · 1928
Conquest
Film · 1928
Across the Atlantic
Film · 1928
Life in Hollywood No. 4
Film · 1927
The Black Diamond Express
Film · 1927
One-Round Hogan
Film · 1927
Brass Knuckles
Film · 1927
Bitter Apples
Film · 1927
The Bush Leaguer
Film · 1927
Wolf's Clothing
Film · 1927
The Brute
Film · 1927
So This Is Paris
Film · 1926
Other Women's Husbands
Film · 1926
Across the Pacific
Film · 1926
The Man Upstairs
Film · 1926
Kiss Me Again
Film · 1925
The Limited Mail
Film · 1925
Hogan's Alley
Film · 1925
Red Hot Tires
Film · 1925
Recompense
Film · 1925
The Marriage Circle
Film · 1924
Mademoiselle Midnight
Film · 1924
How to Educate a Wife
Film · 1924
Daughters of Pleasure
Film · 1924
The Dark Swan
Film · 1924
Revelation
Film · 1924
Being Respectable
Film · 1924
The Lover of Camille
Film · 1924
Loving Lies
Film · 1924
Her Marriage Vow
Film · 1924
Main Street
Film · 1923
Lucretia Lombard
Film · 1923
Defying Destiny
Film · 1923
The Purple Highway
Film · 1923
Brass
Film · 1923
My Old Kentucky Home
Film · 1922
Broadway Rose
Film · 1922
Peacock Alley
Film · 1922
A Perfect Crime
Film · 1921
The Affairs of Anatol
Film · 1921
Orphans of the Storm
Film · 1921
Moonlight and Honeysuckle
Film · 1921
A Broken Doll
Film · 1921
The Kentuckians
Film · 1921
The Jucklins
Film · 1921
The 13th Commandment
Film · 1920
Something to Think About
Film · 1920
A Cumberland Romance
Film · 1920
Too Much Johnson
Film · 1919
Romance and Arabella
Film · 1919
Everywoman
Film · 1919
Told in the Hills
Film · 1919
Pettigrew's Girl
Film · 1919
In Mizzoura
Film · 1919
Rustling a Bride
Film · 1919
Riders of the Night
Film · 1918
The Squaw Man
Film · 1918
The Romance of Tarzan
Film · 1918
Hands Up
Film · 1918
100% American
Film · 1918
M'Liss
Film · 1918
Johanna Enlists
Film · 1918
The Goddess of Lost Lake
Film · 1918
The Only Road
Film · 1918
Till I Come Back to You
Film · 1918
The Red, Red Heart
Film · 1918
The Man from Painted Post
Film · 1917
Jim Bludso
Film · 1917
Hands Up!
Film · 1917
Betsy's Burglar
Film · 1917
Wild and Woolly
Film · 1917
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Film · 1916
The Vagabond Prince
Film · 1916
The Devil's Needle
Film · 1916
The Matrimaniac
Film · 1916
The Microscope Mystery
Film · 1916
Ghosts
Film · 1915
Martyrs of the Alamo
Film · 1915
The Birth of a Nation
Film · 1915
The Noon Hour
Film · 1915