Monte Blue
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.
234 acting credits
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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
Rawhide
1959
The Lone Ranger
1949
This Is Your Life
1952
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
Casablanca
1942
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
26 Men
1957
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954
The Fountainhead
1949
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
The Birth of a Nation
1915
North West Mounted Police
1940
Key Largo
1948
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
'G' Men
1935
Apache
1954
Dodge City
1939
Juarez
1939
Silver River
1948
The Man I Love
1946
Gentleman Jim
1942
Adventures of Don Juan
1948
Union Pacific
1939
I Married a Witch
1942
Colorado Territory
1949
Backfire
1950
Mission to Moscow
1943
Possessed
1947
Ride, Vaquero!
1953
The Iroquois Trail
1950
Johnny Belinda
1948
Warpath
1951
San Antonio
1945
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935
The Unfaithful
1947
Road to Morocco
1942
Life with Father
1947
The Hard Way
1943
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944
Mary of Scotland
1936
Humoresque
1947
Orphans of the Storm
1921
Souls at Sea
1937
Treachery Rides the Range
1936
Born to the West
1937
Never Say Goodbye
1946
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
Northern Pursuit
1943
Across the Pacific
1942
Hell Town
1937
Homicide
1949
Cocoanut Grove
1938
The Sea Hornet
1951
Edge of Darkness
1943
Pacific Blackout
1941
Buffalo Stampede
1933
The Big Wheel
1949
Wanderer of the Wasteland
1935
The Show of Shows
1929
Illegal Traffic
1938
Road to Singapore
1940
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940
King of Alcatraz
1938
Truck Busters
1943
On Probation
1935
From Headquarters
1929
Flaxy Martin
1949
Cheyenne
1947
White Shadows in the South Seas
1928
Sharad of Atlantis
1936
Geronimo
1939
The Last Posse
1953
The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946
Wild and Woolly
1917
Days of Jesse James
1939
Stallion Road
1947
Ranger of Cherokee Strip
1949
This Side of the Law
1950
Danger Signal
1945
Hangman's Knot
1952
So This Is Paris
1926
A Million to One
1936
New York Town
1941
The Stoker
1932
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
1943
The Black Diamond Express
1927
The Hidden Hand
1942
South of St. Louis
1949
The Great Man's Lady
1941
Mademoiselle Midnight
1924
Secret Enemies
1942
Rose of Cimarron
1952
Loving Lies
1924
Shadow of a Woman
1946
The Great Train Robbery
1941
Desert Gold
1936
The Mysterious Rider
1938
Revelation
1924
Prison Shadows
1936
Wagon Wheels
1934
The Test
1935
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1938
Riders of Death Valley
1941
Peacock Alley
1922
The Horn Blows at Midnight
1945
Sky Racket
1937
Till I Come Back to You
1918
My Favorite Blonde
1942
Nevada
1935
The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938
The Intruder
1933
Social Error
1935
The Younger Brothers
1949
Sunset in Wyoming
1941
Two Guys from Milwaukee
1946
The Marriage Circle
1924
Ghosts
1915
Broadway Rose
1922
Across the Pacific
1926
The Flood
1931
Three Desperate Men
1951
Main Street
1923
Officer Thirteen
1932
The Last Round-up
1934
Frontier Pony Express
1939
Across the Atlantic
1928
Brass
1923
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1937
Being Respectable
1924
Brass Knuckles
1927
Young Bill Hickok
1940
Bells of San Fernando
1947
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
1950
Isle of Escape
1930
The Romance of Tarzan
1918
Conquest
1928
Tom Sawyer, Detective
1938
Our Leading Citizen
1939
Student Tour
1934
The Affairs of Anatol
1921
The Matrimaniac
1916
The Squaw Man
1918
Touchdown, Army
1938
Something to Think About
1920
M'Liss
1918
Everywoman
1919
Hawk of the Wilderness
1938
Johanna Enlists
1918
Her Marriage Vow
1924
Recompense
1925
Ride, Ranger, Ride
1936
Trial by Trigger
1944
King of the Texas Rangers
1941
Mystery Sea Raider
1940
Too Much Johnson
1919
The Purple Highway
1923
Tiger Rose
1929
Martyrs of the Alamo
1915
Secret Agent X-9
1937
So You Want to Play the Horses
1946
Amateur Crook
1937
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
Romance and Arabella
1919
Rebellious Daughters
1938
Lucretia Lombard
1923
Klondike Fury
1942
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941
The Brute
1927
Rustling a Bride
1919
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
1941
Skin Deep
1929
The 13th Commandment
1920
Frontier Days
1945
Bitter Apples
1927
Red Hot Tires
1925
North to the Klondike
1942
Cinderella Jones
1946
The Man Upstairs
1926
Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush
1954
Gold Raiders
1951
The Only Road
1918
Other Women's Husbands
1926
The Devil's Needle
1916
No Defense
1929
Come On, Marines!
1934
Snake River Desperadoes
1951
A Broken Doll
1921
Song of the Gringo
1936
The Vagabond Prince
1916
Hands Up
1918
How to Educate a Wife
1924
Trails of the Wild
1935
Law of the Timber
1941
Daughters of Pleasure
1924
Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
1937
Treat 'Em Rough
1942
The Microscope Mystery
1916
The Blonde Bandit
1949
Two Guys from Texas
1948
Her Forgotten Past
1933
Betsy's Burglar
1917
The Man from Painted Post
1917
Those Who Dance
1930
Moonlight and Honeysuckle
1921
Life in Hollywood No. 4
1927
Port of Hate
1939
One-Round Hogan
1927
The Lover of Camille
1924
Hogan's Alley
1925
Jim Bludso
1917
The Limited Mail
1925
100% American
1918
The Jucklins
1921
Trail of the Arrow
1952
The Bush Leaguer
1927
Defying Destiny
1923
Riders of the Night
1918
Pettigrew's Girl
1919
Told in the Hills
1919
Hands Up!
1917
The Kentuckians
1921
The Greyhound Limited
1929
The Goddess of Lost Lake
1918
My Old Kentucky Home
1922
The Dark Swan
1924
The Red, Red Heart
1918
In Mizzoura
1919
A Cumberland Romance
1920
Kiss Me Again
1925
Wolf's Clothing
1927
The Noon Hour
1915
A Perfect Crime
1921