Montagu Love
Born
March 15, 1880
Died
May 17, 1943 (63 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
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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).
Known For
Torpedo of Doom
Col. White
1966
Devotion
Rev. Brontë
1946
Wings Over the Pacific
Jim Butler
1943
The Constant Nymph
Albert Sanger
1943
Forever and a Day
Sir John Bunn
1943
Tennessee Johnson
Chief Justice Chase
1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
General Jerome Lawford
1942
The Remarkable Andrew
General George Washington
1942
Lady for a Night
Judge
1942
Shining Victory
Dr. Blake
1941
The Devil and Miss Jones
Harrison
1941
Hudson's Bay
Governor D'Argenson
1941
The Son of Monte Cristo
Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff
1940
The Mark of Zorro
Don Alejandro Vega
1940
North West Mounted Police
Inspector Cabot
1940
A Dispatch from Reuters
Delane
1940
The Sea Hawk
King Philip II
1940
All This, and Heaven Too
Marechal Sebastiani
1940
Private Affairs
Noble Bullerton
1940
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Professor Hartmann
1940
Northwest Passage
Wiseman Clagett
1940
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Emil Gorlick
1940
We Are Not Alone
Major Millman
1939
Rulers of the Sea
Malcolm Grant
1939
The Man in the Iron Mask
Spanish Ambassador
1939
Juarez
Jose de Montares
1939
Sons of Liberty
George Washington
1939
Gunga Din
Colonel Weed
1939
If I Were King
General Dudon
1938
Professor Beware
Professor Schmutz
1938
The Fighting Devil Dogs
General White
1938
Kidnapped
Colonel Whitehead
1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Bishop of the Black Canons
1938
The Buccaneer
Admiral Cockburn
1938
Tovarich
M. Courtois
1937
Adventure's End
Capt. Abner Drew
1937
A Damsel in Distress
Lord Marshmorton
1937
The Life of Emile Zola
M. Cavaignac
1937
The Prisoner of Zenda
Detchard
1937
London by Night
Sir Arthur Herrick
1937
Parnell
William Ewart Gladstone
1937
The Prince and the Pauper
Henry VIII
1937
One in a Million
Ratoffsky
1937
Lloyd's of London
Hawkins
1936
Reunion
Sir Basil Crawford
1936
Sing, Baby, Sing
Robert Wilson
1936
The White Angel
Mr. Bullock
1936
Champagne Charlie
Ivan Suchine
1936
Frankie and Johnnie
Colonel Brand
1936
The Country Doctor
Sir Basil Crawford
1936
Sutter's Gold
Capt. Kettleson
1936
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Director
1935
Hi, Gaucho!
Hillario Bolario
1935
Hollywood Extra Girl
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
1935
The Crusades
The Blacksmith
1935
Clive of India
Governor Pigot
1935
Limehouse Blues
Pug Talbot
1934
Menace
Police Inspector
1934
The Expectant Father
1934
His Double Life
Duncan Farrel
1933
At Twelve Midnight
Captain James alias The Fox
1933
Out of Singapore
Capt. Scar Murray
1932
The Midnight Lady
Harvey Austin
1932
The Riding Tornado
Walt Corson
1932
The Silver Lining
Michael Moore
1932
Vanity Fair
Marquis of Steyne
1932
Stowaway
Groder
1932
Love Bound
John Randolph
1932
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
1931
The Cat Creeps
Hendricks
1930
Kismet
The Jailer
1930
Reno
Alexander W. Brett
1930
Outward Bound
Mr. Lingley
1930
Inside the Lines
Governor of Gibraltar
1930
Back Pay
Charles Wheeler
1930
A Notorious Affair
Sir Thomas Hanley
1930
Double Cross Roads
Gene Dyke
1930
Love Comes Along
Sangredo
1930
The Mysterious Island
Falon
1929
The Mysterious Island
Mikhail
1929
A Most Immoral Lady
John Williams
1929
Her Private Life
Sir Bruce Haden
1929
Charming Sinners
George Whitley
1929
Midstream
Dr. Nelson
1929
Bulldog Drummond
Peterson
1929
The Voice Within
1929
Silks and Saddles
Walter Sinclair
1929
Synthetic Sin
Brandy Mulane
1929
The Divine Lady
Capt. Hardy
1928
The Last Warning
Arthur McHugh
1928
The Haunted House
Mad Doctor
1928
The Wind
Roddy
1928
The Hawk's Nest
Dan Daugherty
1928
Character Studies
1928
The Devil's Skipper
First Mate
1928
The Noose
Buck Gordon
1928
The Haunted Ship
Captain Simon Gant
1927
Good Time Charley
John Hartwell
1927
Jesse James
Frederick Mimms
1927
Rose of the Golden West
Gen. Vallero
1927
The Tender Hour
Grand Duke Sergei
1927
The King of Kings
Roman Centurion
1927
The Night of Love
Duke de la Garda
1927
The Silent Lover
Ben Achmed
1926
The Son of the Sheik
Ghabah
1926
Don Juan
Count Giano Donati
1926
Out of the Storm
Timothy Keith
1926
Brooding Eyes
Pat Callaghan
1926
Hands Up!
Capt. Edward Logan
1926
The Desert's Price
Jim Martin
1925
The Ancient Highway
Ivan Hurd
1925
The Mad Marriage
1925
Sinners in Heaven
Native Chief
1924
Love of Women
Bronson Gibbs
1924
A Son of the Sahara
Sultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier
1924
Who's Cheating?
Harrison Fields
1924
Roulette
Dan Carrington
1924
Restless Wives
Hugo Cady
1924
The Eternal City
Minghelli
1923
Secrets of Paris
The Schoolmaster
1922
What's Wrong with the Women?
1922
The Beauty Shop
Maldonado
1922
Love's Redemption
Frederick Kent
1921
Forever
Colonel Ibbetson
1921
The Case of Becky
Prof. Balzamo
1921
The Place of Honeymoons
Edward Courtlandt
1920
The Riddle: Woman
Larz Olrik
1920
The World and His Wife
Don Julian
1920
Our Film Stars
1919
A Broadway Saint
Dick Vernon
1919
Through the Toils
Noel Graham / Lewis Moffat
1919
Three Green Eyes
Allen Granat
1919
The Hand Invisible
Rodney Graham
1919
The Grouch
Donald Graham
1918
The Cabaret
Jaffrey Darrel
1918
Stolen Orders
John Le Page
1918
The Cross Bearer
Cardinal Mercier
1918
Broken Ties
John Fleming
1918
The Volunteer
Self - Cameo Appearance
1917
The Good for Nothing
1917
The Awakening
Jacques Revilly
1917
The Dormant Power
1917
Rasputin, the Black Monk
Gregory Novik / Rasputin
1917
The Brand of Satan
Jacques Cordet
1917
Yankee Pluck
Baron Wootchi
1917
Forget-Me-Not
Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
1917
The Dancer's Peril
Michael Pavloff
1917
The Challenge
Quarrier
1916
The Men She Married
Jerry Trainor
1916
The Scarlet Oath
Nicholas Savaroff
1916
The Hidden Scar
Henry Dalton
1916
The Gilded Cage
Baron Stefano
1916
Husband and Wife
Patrick Alliston
1916
A Woman's Way
Oliver Whitney
1916
The Devil's Toy
Wilfred Barsley
1916
The Greater Will
Stuart Watson
1915
A Royal Family
Crown Prince of Kurland
1915
Hearts in Exile
1915
The Suicide Club
Prince Florizel
1914