Monte Blue

Acting · 0.5 popularity

Age

139

Movies

228

Born: January 10, 1887 – February 18, 1963
From: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Biography

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.

Works

228 films

Casablanca

19438.1

Key Largo

19487.5

I Married a Witch

19426.9

The Birth of a Nation

19155.9

The Fountainhead

19496.8

100% American

19187.0

Dodge City

19396.9

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

19167.1

Adventures of Don Juan

19486.8

Apache

19546.0

Union Pacific

19396.7

Juarez

19396.5

Mary of Scotland

19366.2

Touchdown, Army

19387.5

Action in the North Atlantic

19437.1

'G' Men

19356.6

Broadway Rose

19229.0

The Man I Love

19466.1

Skin Deep

19293.3

Passage to Marseille

19446.6

The Show of Shows

19296.6

Buffalo Stampede

19334.1

Across the Pacific

19426.6

Ride, Vaquero!

19536.1

Life with Father

19476.7

Sharad of Atlantis

19364.5

No Defense

192910.0

North West Mounted Police

19406.4

Those Who Dance

19306.2

Gentleman Jim

19427.2

Colorado Territory

19496.9

Born to the West

19374.8

Johnny Belinda

19486.9

The Mask of Dimitrios

19447.1

Warpath

19516.0

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

19356.6

Riders of Death Valley

19416.8

Possessed

19476.9

Hell Town

1937

Montana

19505.6

San Antonio

19456.1

Defying Destiny

19236.7

The Flood

193110.0

Silver River

19486.2

The Hard Way

19436.4

Hangman's Knot

19526.6

Backfire

19505.9

Road to Singapore

19406.4

Road to Morocco

19426.9

Northern Pursuit

19436.1

South of St. Louis

19495.8

Humoresque

19477.0

So You Want to Play the Horses

19466.5

The Big Wheel

19495.7

North to the Klondike

19427.1

Flaxy Martin

19495.6

Thank Your Lucky Stars

19436.2

The Great Man's Lady

19416.3

Recompense

19258.0

Edge of Darkness

19436.3

In Mizzoura

19198.0

Souls at Sea

19376.5

The Conspirators

19446.3

Bitter Apples

19277.5

The Unfaithful

19475.9

Orphans of the Storm

19216.8

Treachery Rides the Range

19364.0

Mission to Moscow

19435.7

Secret Enemies

19425.8

The Hidden Hand

19426.7

Never Say Goodbye

19466.3

The Jucklins

19218.0

Sunset in Wyoming

19417.0

Amateur Crook

19375.0

Romance and Arabella

19199.0

The Time, The Place and The Girl

19465.7

White Shadows in the South Seas

19286.7

Cheyenne

19477.0

Snake River Desperadoes

19514.9

Frontier Pony Express

19395.0

Moonlight and Honeysuckle

19217.0

Geronimo

19395.3

Two Guys from Milwaukee

19464.9

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

19405.6

Wild and Woolly

19176.3

Gold Raiders

19516.6

My Favorite Blonde

19426.4

The Remarkable Andrew

19427.4

The Goddess of Lost Lake

1918

The Last Posse

19536.3

Cinderella Jones

19463.8

Isle of Escape

19306.5

The Purple Highway

192310.0

The Greyhound Limited

19298.0

The Horn Blows at Midnight

19455.9

The Affairs of Anatol

19215.9

So This Is Paris

19266.3

Bad Man of Deadwood

19415.3

The Big Broadcast of 1938

19386.3

King of Alcatraz

19386.0

Homicide

19495.7

A Cumberland Romance

19208.0

Song of the Gringo

19366.0

Come On, Marines!

19345.6

Two Guys from Texas

19488.0

The 13th Commandment

19209.0

The Marriage Circle

19246.3

Wolf's Clothing

192710.0

Days of Jesse James

19395.1

The Man Upstairs

19268.0

Pacific Blackout

19416.6

The Intruder

19334.6

Martyrs of the Alamo

19155.2

Her Forgotten Past

19337.5

The Red, Red Heart

1918

Frontier Days

19456.3

Shadow of a Woman

19464.5

A Million to One

19365.0

Ranger of Cherokee Strip

194910.0

Rose of Cimarron

19525.6

King of the Texas Rangers

19417.0

Wagon Wheels

19345.1

The Noon Hour

1915

Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer

19437.0

Red Hot Tires

19257.0

The Younger Brothers

19497.5

The Iroquois Trail

19506.6

This Side of the Law

19504.8

New York Town

19418.5

Johanna Enlists

19186.0

Our Leading Citizen

19398.0

The Last Round-up

19348.0

Cocoanut Grove

19389.0

Danger Signal

19456.0

The Romance of Tarzan

19186.0

Student Tour

19346.7

Prison Shadows

19365.3

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

19376.3

Pettigrew's Girl

19198.0

Trails of the Wild

19358.0

The Blonde Bandit

19496.2

Rustling a Bride

19197.0

Across the Pacific

19265.0

Desert Gold

19365.7

Main Street

19236.0

Secret Agent X-9

19377.3

Hands Up

19187.0

The Sea Hornet

19516.0

Young Bill Hickok

19405.4

Hogan's Alley

192510.0

Stallion Road

19477.5

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

19389.0

Scattergood Pulls the Strings

19417.0

The Vagabond Prince

1916

Sky Racket

19373.9

Brass

19235.0

Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush

19547.0

Mademoiselle Midnight

19245.7

The Brute

19279.0

Mystery Sea Raider

19406.0

Told in the Hills

19197.0

The Stoker

19327.0

Ghosts

19154.5

The Mysterious Rider

19387.3

Tiger Rose

19297.0

The Great Train Robbery

19418.3

From Headquarters

19298.0

Illegal Traffic

19386.6

Lucretia Lombard

19237.0

Truck Busters

19437.0

Wanderer of the Wasteland

19356.0

Klondike Fury

19425.1

Bells of San Fernando

19474.6

Nevada

19354.8

On Probation

193510.0

Everywoman

19198.0

The Squaw Man

19185.8

Other Women's Husbands

19268.0

Ride, Ranger, Ride

19365.2

Trial by Trigger

19445.7

A Perfect Crime

19218.0

Hawk of the Wilderness

19387.0

Three Desperate Men

19515.5

Brass Knuckles

192710.0

M'Liss

19185.7

The Bush Leaguer

192710.0

The Devil's Needle

19166.4

Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm

19375.8

Revelation

19249.0

The Lover of Camille

192410.0

The Man from Painted Post

19174.8

Her Marriage Vow

192410.0

Daughters of Pleasure

19248.0

A Broken Doll

19219.0

Port of Hate

19396.3

Treat 'Em Rough

19428.0

Tom Sawyer, Detective

19385.6

The Dark Swan

19248.0

Trail of the Arrow

19529.0

Rebellious Daughters

19386.0

Officer Thirteen

19326.6

Being Respectable

19249.0

The Only Road

1918

Loving Lies

19249.0

So You Want to Hold Your Husband

19509.0

One-Round Hogan

192710.0

Law of the Timber

19417.0

Riders of the Night

19187.0

Kiss Me Again

19257.0

Something to Think About

19206.8

Hands Up!

1917

Social Error

19357.5

Peacock Alley

192210.0

Too Much Johnson

19199.0

Betsy's Burglar

1917

My Old Kentucky Home

19229.0

Jim Bludso

1917

The Black Diamond Express

19279.0

Life in Hollywood No. 4

192710.0

Conquest

19288.0

Till I Come Back to You

19185.7

The Test

19354.3

The Matrimaniac

19166.5

How to Educate a Wife

19249.0

The Microscope Mystery

1916

The Kentuckians

19219.0

The Limited Mail

192510.0

Across the Atlantic

19289.0