
Montagu Love
Born March 15, 1880 · Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
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).
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Lloyd's of London

North West Mounted Police

All This, and Heaven Too

The Man in the Iron Mask

The Prince and the Pauper

Gunga Din

Forever and a Day

Rulers of the Sea

Juarez

The Prisoner of Zenda

A Dispatch from Reuters

The Life of Emile Zola

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

We Are Not Alone

The Devil and Miss Jones

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

Northwest Passage

The Son of Monte Cristo

If I Were King

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

The White Angel

Parnell

A Damsel in Distress

The Fighting Devil Dogs

Lady for a Night

The Constant Nymph

The Lone Wolf Strikes

Vanity Fair

The Buccaneer

Clive of India

The Son of the Sheik

One in a Million

Love Bound

Rose of the Golden West

Charming Sinners

The Wind

Kidnapped

The Night of Love

Tennessee Johnson

The Last Warning

The Crusades

One Hour of Love

A Notorious Affair

The Lion and the Lamb

A Most Immoral Lady

The Cat Creeps

Private Affairs

Devotion

Hudson's Bay

Out of the Storm

Tovarich

The Devil's Skipper

The World and His Wife

Kismet

The Brand of Satan

London by Night

The Face in the Moonlight

Don Juan

Adventure's End

Sing, Baby, Sing

Stowaway

Bulldog Drummond

The Leopardess

The Remarkable Andrew

Shining Victory

The Country Doctor

The Mysterious Island

The Awakening

What's Wrong with the Women?

The Cross Bearer

The Riding Tornado

The Hawk's Nest

The Haunted Ship

Professor Beware

Sinners in Heaven

Bought and Paid For

The Place of Honeymoons

Week End Husbands

The Men She Married

Inside the Lines

Her Private Life

Rasputin, the Black Monk

Good Time Charley

The Dancer's Peril

The Devil's Toy

Hollywood Extra Girl

The Grouch

Midstream

A Broadway Saint

The Silent Lover

The Midnight Lady

Sutter's Gold

Wings Over the Pacific

Yankee Pluck

Synthetic Sin

Alexander Hamilton

The Gilded Cage

Out of Singapore

Silks and Saddles

The Haunted House

A Woman's Way

Champagne Charlie

Menace

A Son of the Sahara

Sons of Liberty

The Divine Lady

The Hand Invisible

Love's Redemption

The Beauty Shop

Frankie and Johnnie

Limehouse Blues

The Scarlet Oath

Hearts in Exile

The Noose

Jesse James

The Social Highwayman

Secrets of Paris

Outward Bound

Forever

Love Comes Along

Hi, Gaucho!

At Twelve Midnight

The Rough Neck

His Double Life

Double Cross Roads

The Suicide Club

Back Pay

The Case of Becky

The Good for Nothing

Roulette

Hands Up!

The Ancient Highway

Torpedo of Doom

The Eternal City

The Volunteer

The Silver Lining

Who's Cheating?

Man's Plaything

Husband and Wife

Three Green Eyes

The Quickening Flame

Friday the 13th

Reunion

The Riddle: Woman

Broken Ties

The Hidden Scar

The Cabaret

The Challenge

Reno

Stolen Orders

Through the Toils

Love of Women

Forget-Me-Not

The Mad Marriage

A Royal Family




