Montagu Love
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).
171 acting credits
Acting · 171
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
The Mark of Zorro
1940
The Sea Hawk
1940
North West Mounted Police
1940
Gunga Din
1939
Juarez
1939
Rose of the Golden West
1927
The King of Kings
1927
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937
If I Were King
1938
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941
Northwest Passage
1940
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1935
The Wind
1928
Vanity Fair
1932
Devotion
1946
The Prince and the Pauper
1937
Forever and a Day
1943
Clive of India
1935
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940
Lloyd's of London
1936
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
Charming Sinners
1929
Don Juan
1926
The Man in the Iron Mask
1939
The Crusades
1935
Tennessee Johnson
1942
Professor Beware
1938
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
The Buccaneer
1938
Outward Bound
1930
A Damsel in Distress
1937
The Son of Monte Cristo
1940
The Constant Nymph
1943
The Lone Wolf Strikes
1940
Kismet
1930
The Country Doctor
1936
The Last Warning
1928
The Night of Love
1927
The Divine Lady
1928
Shining Victory
1941
Stowaway
1932
Tovarich
1937
Parnell
1937
Lady for a Night
1942
The Mysterious Island
1929
Out of Singapore
1932
Hudson's Bay
1940
The White Angel
1936
Kidnapped
1938
Private Affairs
1940
Reunion
1936
Champagne Charlie
1936
Adventure's End
1937
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940
Inside the Lines
1930
Sutter's Gold
1936
Sing, Baby, Sing
1936
The Son of the Sheik
1926
Rulers of the Sea
1939
One Hour of Love
1927
Bulldog Drummond
1929
Frankie and Johnnie
1936
A Woman's Way
1916
Reno
1930
Midstream
1929
Back Pay
1930
Wings Over the Pacific
1943
We Are Not Alone
1939
Brooding Eyes
1926
Alexander Hamilton
1931
Limehouse Blues
1934
The Noose
1928
London by Night
1937
Sons of Liberty
1939
One in a Million
1937
The Suicide Club
1914
Torpedo of Doom
1966
The Haunted House
1928
The Devil's Skipper
1928
Double Cross Roads
1930
Menace
1934
A Son of the Sahara
1924
The Silver Lining
1932
Synthetic Sin
1929
The Brand of Satan
1917
Yankee Pluck
1917
Three Green Eyes
1919
The Awakening
1917
Her Private Life
1929
Love Bound
1932
Stolen Orders
1918
The Ancient Highway
1925
The Gilded Cage
1916
Roulette
1924
Week End Husbands
1924
The Haunted Ship
1927
Hands Up!
1926
At Twelve Midnight
1933
Sinners in Heaven
1924
The Tender Hour
1927
Love Comes Along
1930
Shams of Society
1921
Good Time Charley
1927
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
The Cross Bearer
1918
The Dancer's Peril
1917
The Midnight Lady
1932
A Broadway Saint
1919
Forever
1921
The Hawk's Nest
1928
The Leopardess
1923
A Notorious Affair
1930
Hollywood Extra Girl
1935
The Volunteer
1917
The World and His Wife
1920
A Most Immoral Lady
1929
Broken Ties
1918
The Mad Marriage
1925
The Social Highwayman
1926
Hi, Gaucho!
1935
The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938
Silks and Saddles
1929
The Lion and the Lamb
1931
His Double Life
1933
The Hidden Scar
1916
The Challenge
1916
The Silent Lover
1926
The Eternal City
1923
The Desert's Price
1925
Through the Toils
1919
The Beauty Shop
1922
Love's Redemption
1921
The Devil's Toy
1916
The Greater Will
1915
The Riddle: Woman
1920
The Riding Tornado
1932
Love of Women
1924
The Cabaret
1918
The Case of Becky
1921
The Place of Honeymoons
1920
The Hand Invisible
1919
Secrets of Paris
1922
What's Wrong with the Women?
1922
Restless Wives
1924
The Voice Within
1929
The Men She Married
1916
Friday the 13th
1916
Jesse James
1927
Out of the Storm
1926
Rasputin, the Black Monk
1917
The Steel King
1919
Hearts in Exile
1915
The Good for Nothing
1917
The Cat Creeps
1930
A Royal Family
1915
The Scarlet Oath
1916
Man's Plaything
1920
Character Studies
1928
The Rough Neck
1919
Bought and Paid For
1916
The Grouch
1918
Husband and Wife
1916
Forget-Me-Not
1917
Our Film Stars
1919
The Expectant Father
1934
Who's Cheating?
1924
The Dormant Power
1917
The Quickening Flame
1919
The Face in the Moonlight
1915