Acting
Montagu Love
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).
Filmography
Torpedo of Doom
Film · 1966
Devotion
Film · 1946
Wings Over the Pacific
Film · 1943
The Constant Nymph
Film · 1943
Forever and a Day
Film · 1943
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Film · 1942
Lady for a Night
Film · 1942
The Remarkable Andrew
Film · 1942
Tennessee Johnson
Film · 1942
The Devil and Miss Jones
Film · 1941
Shining Victory
Film · 1941
The Sea Hawk
Film · 1940
The Son of Monte Cristo
Film · 1940
North West Mounted Police
Film · 1940
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Film · 1940
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Film · 1940
Hudson's Bay
Film · 1940
The Mark of Zorro
Film · 1940
All This, and Heaven Too
Film · 1940
Northwest Passage
Film · 1940
A Dispatch from Reuters
Film · 1940
Private Affairs
Film · 1940
Gunga Din
Film · 1939
Rulers of the Sea
Film · 1939
We Are Not Alone
Film · 1939
Sons of Liberty
Film · 1939
Juarez
Film · 1939
The Man in the Iron Mask
Film · 1939
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Film · 1938
If I Were King
Film · 1938
The Fighting Devil Dogs
Film · 1938
Professor Beware
Film · 1938
Kidnapped
Film · 1938
The Buccaneer
Film · 1938
The Prince and the Pauper
Film · 1937
Tovarich
Film · 1937
The Prisoner of Zenda
Film · 1937
A Damsel in Distress
Film · 1937
London by Night
Film · 1937
Parnell
Film · 1937
Adventure's End
Film · 1937
One in a Million
Film · 1937
The Life of Emile Zola
Film · 1937
Lloyd's of London
Film · 1936
Sutter's Gold
Film · 1936
The Country Doctor
Film · 1936
Sing, Baby, Sing
Film · 1936
Reunion
Film · 1936
The White Angel
Film · 1936
Champagne Charlie
Film · 1936
Frankie and Johnnie
Film · 1936
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Film · 1935
Clive of India
Film · 1935
Hi, Gaucho!
Film · 1935
The Crusades
Film · 1935
Hollywood Extra Girl
Film · 1935
Limehouse Blues
Film · 1934
The Expectant Father
Film · 1934
Menace
Film · 1934
His Double Life
Film · 1933
At Twelve Midnight
Film · 1933
The Midnight Lady
Film · 1932
Out of Singapore
Film · 1932
Stowaway
Film · 1932
Love Bound
Film · 1932
Vanity Fair
Film · 1932
The Silver Lining
Film · 1932
The Riding Tornado
Film · 1932
Alexander Hamilton
Film · 1931
The Lion and the Lamb
Film · 1931
Outward Bound
Film · 1930
Back Pay
Film · 1930
Love Comes Along
Film · 1930
Kismet
Film · 1930
Inside the Lines
Film · 1930
The Cat Creeps
Film · 1930
A Notorious Affair
Film · 1930
Double Cross Roads
Film · 1930
Reno
Film · 1930
Bulldog Drummond
Film · 1929
Charming Sinners
Film · 1929
Synthetic Sin
Film · 1929
The Mysterious Island
Film · 1929
The Mysterious Island
Film · 1929
Her Private Life
Film · 1929
A Most Immoral Lady
Film · 1929
The Voice Within
Film · 1929
Midstream
Film · 1929
Silks and Saddles
Film · 1929
The Wind
Film · 1928
The Haunted House
Film · 1928
The Divine Lady
Film · 1928
The Last Warning
Film · 1928
The Hawk's Nest
Film · 1928
The Noose
Film · 1928
Character Studies
Film · 1928
The Devil's Skipper
Film · 1928
The Night of Love
Film · 1927
Good Time Charley
Film · 1927
The King of Kings
Film · 1927
Rose of the Golden West
Film · 1927
The Tender Hour
Film · 1927
Jesse James
Film · 1927
The Haunted Ship
Film · 1927
One Hour of Love
Film · 1927
Out of the Storm
Film · 1926
The Silent Lover
Film · 1926
Hands Up!
Film · 1926
The Son of the Sheik
Film · 1926
Don Juan
Film · 1926
Brooding Eyes
Film · 1926
The Social Highwayman
Film · 1926
The Ancient Highway
Film · 1925
The Desert's Price
Film · 1925
The Mad Marriage
Film · 1925
Roulette
Film · 1924
A Son of the Sahara
Film · 1924
Sinners in Heaven
Film · 1924
Restless Wives
Film · 1924
Who's Cheating?
Film · 1924
Love of Women
Film · 1924
Week End Husbands
Film · 1924
The Eternal City
Film · 1923
The Leopardess
Film · 1923
The Beauty Shop
Film · 1922
What's Wrong with the Women?
Film · 1922
Secrets of Paris
Film · 1922
Love's Redemption
Film · 1921
Forever
Film · 1921
The Case of Becky
Film · 1921
Shams of Society
Film · 1921
The Riddle: Woman
Film · 1920
The World and His Wife
Film · 1920
The Place of Honeymoons
Film · 1920
Man's Plaything
Film · 1920
Our Film Stars
Film · 1919
Through the Toils
Film · 1919
A Broadway Saint
Film · 1919
The Hand Invisible
Film · 1919
Three Green Eyes
Film · 1919
The Rough Neck
Film · 1919
The Steel King
Film · 1919
The Quickening Flame
Film · 1919
The Cross Bearer
Film · 1918
The Cabaret
Film · 1918
Stolen Orders
Film · 1918
The Grouch
Film · 1918
Broken Ties
Film · 1918
Forget-Me-Not
Film · 1917
The Volunteer
Film · 1917
Rasputin, the Black Monk
Film · 1917
The Dancer's Peril
Film · 1917
Yankee Pluck
Film · 1917
The Dormant Power
Film · 1917
The Awakening
Film · 1917
The Brand of Satan
Film · 1917
The Good for Nothing
Film · 1917
The Gilded Cage
Film · 1916
The Scarlet Oath
Film · 1916
The Men She Married
Film · 1916
The Hidden Scar
Film · 1916
Husband and Wife
Film · 1916
A Woman's Way
Film · 1916
The Devil's Toy
Film · 1916
The Challenge
Film · 1916
Bought and Paid For
Film · 1916
Friday the 13th
Film · 1916
The Greater Will
Film · 1915
Hearts in Exile
Film · 1915
A Royal Family
Film · 1915
The Face in the Moonlight
Film · 1915
The Suicide Club
Film · 1914