Montagu Love

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

146

Movies

171

Born: March 15, 1880 – May 17, 1943
From: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK

Biography

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).

Works

171 films

The Adventures of Robin Hood

19387.5

The Sea Hawk

19407.2

Gunga Din

19396.5

Juarez

19396.5

The Mark of Zorro

19407.1

The Man in the Iron Mask

19397.1

Charming Sinners

19297.5

The Prince and the Pauper

19376.8

Vanity Fair

19324.7

The Life of Emile Zola

19376.7

North West Mounted Police

19406.4

The Crusades

19356.4

The King of Kings

19276.4

Northwest Passage

19406.6

The Grouch

19189.0

The Prisoner of Zenda

19377.5

Stowaway

19326.5

Love Bound

19324.0

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

19406.5

At Twelve Midnight

19335.7

The Constant Nymph

19436.3

Her Private Life

19293.0

All This, and Heaven Too

19407.2

Parnell

19374.6

The Son of Monte Cristo

19406.2

The Wind

19287.3

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

19426.5

The Devil and Miss Jones

19417.7

The Steel King

19197.0

Lloyd's of London

19367.3

The Gilded Cage

1916

Our Film Stars

19197.5

The Buccaneer

19386.4

Forever and a Day

19437.5

The Awakening

1917

The Leopardess

19238.0

Sutter's Gold

19367.0

London by Night

19376.1

One Hour of Love

19279.0

Don Juan

19266.6

The Lion and the Lamb

19317.0

Champagne Charlie

19365.4

Yankee Pluck

1917

If I Were King

19387.1

The Country Doctor

19366.5

Devotion

19465.9

A Damsel in Distress

19376.5

The Suicide Club

1914

Sinners in Heaven

19248.0

Midstream

192910.0

A Dispatch from Reuters

19406.3

The World and His Wife

19209.0

The Remarkable Andrew

19427.4

Hudson's Bay

19406.1

The Midnight Lady

19326.5

Tennessee Johnson

19426.4

Adventure's End

19375.5

Silks and Saddles

192910.0

Good Time Charley

19278.0

Shams of Society

19217.0

The Son of the Sheik

19266.1

The Face in the Moonlight

1915

The White Angel

19367.2

The Beauty Shop

19228.0

Bought and Paid For

1916

A Broadway Saint

1919

The Scarlet Oath

1916

Sons of Liberty

19396.3

One in a Million

19377.0

The Cross Bearer

1918

Out of the Storm

192610.0

Husband and Wife

19161.0

The Mysterious Island

19295.6

Tovarich

19376.4

Rulers of the Sea

19396.7

Through the Toils

19197.5

Hollywood Extra Girl

19357.5

Love's Redemption

192110.0

The Cat Creeps

19307.0

Inside the Lines

19305.5

Week End Husbands

19249.0

We Are Not Alone

19396.9

The Dormant Power

1917

The Last Warning

19286.7

The Rough Neck

191910.0

Sing, Baby, Sing

19366.0

The Fighting Devil Dogs

19386.8

Kidnapped

19386.0

The Silent Lover

19268.0

The Eternal City

19237.5

Lady for a Night

19425.5

The Brand of Satan

1917

The Divine Lady

19285.3

Shining Victory

19416.1

Rose of the Golden West

19279.0

Professor Beware

19386.0

Frankie and Johnnie

19366.5

Brooding Eyes

192610.0

Clive of India

19355.1

The Lone Wolf Strikes

19406.8

Roulette

19248.0

The Haunted Ship

19278.0

Friday the 13th

1916

The Greater Will

1915

The Men She Married

1916

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

19356.8

Bulldog Drummond

19296.5

The Place of Honeymoons

19207.0

The Social Highwayman

19268.0

The Noose

19287.7

Kismet

19304.0

Hands Up!

19265.6

Private Affairs

19407.0

Alexander Hamilton

19314.4

Reunion

19367.0

Reno

193010.0

Man's Plaything

19207.0

Back Pay

19304.9

Outward Bound

19306.0

The Tender Hour

192710.0

Menace

19346.4

The Haunted House

19287.0

The Ancient Highway

19256.5

The Devil's Skipper

192810.0

Who's Cheating?

19247.0

Double Cross Roads

19309.0

The Hand Invisible

19198.0

Limehouse Blues

19344.4

The Silver Lining

19327.0

What's Wrong with the Women?

19228.0

The Night of Love

19277.0

Love Comes Along

19307.0

Out of Singapore

19325.0

The Quickening Flame

191910.0

The Hidden Scar

1916

Wings Over the Pacific

19435.7

A Woman's Way

1916

His Double Life

19336.5

The Hawk's Nest

192810.0

Synthetic Sin

192910.0

The Voice Within

19298.0

A Notorious Affair

19304.5

Hi, Gaucho!

19358.3

A Son of the Sahara

19247.5

The Riding Tornado

19327.0

The Challenge

1916

Forever

19218.0

Torpedo of Doom

196610.0

A Most Immoral Lady

19293.3

The Dancer's Peril

1917

Restless Wives

19249.0

Hearts in Exile

19153.5

The Devil's Toy

1916

The Case of Becky

19217.0

Jesse James

19277.0

Rasputin, the Black Monk

1917

The Desert's Price

19259.0

Stolen Orders

1918

The Riddle: Woman

19208.0

The Mad Marriage

192510.0

Three Green Eyes

19198.0

The Volunteer

1917

Forget-Me-Not

1917

The Good for Nothing

1917

Broken Ties

19187.0

Secrets of Paris

19229.0

A Royal Family

1915

The Cabaret

19188.0

Character Studies

1928

Love of Women

19247.0

The Expectant Father

1934