Monte Blue
229 movies · 8 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 10, 1887
- Died
- Feb 18, 1963 (age 76)
- Place of birth
- Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Also known as
- G.M. Blue · Gerard Montgomery "Monte" Blue · Gerard Montgomery Blue
Biography
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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.
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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.
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Known for
Monte Blue: movies and TV shows
Acting (237)
- 1959 Rawhide · TV
- 1957
- 1956
- 1955
- 1954
- 1954 Apache
as Geronimo
- 1954 Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush
as Sheriff
- 1953 Ride, Vaquero!
as Bartender (uncredited)
- 1953 The Last Posse
as Uncle Will
- 1952 Hangman's Knot
as Maxwell
- 1952 Trail of the Arrow
as (archive footage)
- 1952
- 1952 Rose of Cimarron
as Lone Eagle
- 1951 Warpath
as First Emigrant
- 1951 The Sea Hornet
as Lt. Drake
- 1951 Gold Raiders
as John Sawyer
- 1951 Snake River Desperadoes
as Jim Haverly
- 1951
- 1951 Three Desperate Men
as Marshal Pete Coleman
- 1950 So You Want to Hold Your Husband
as Rice - Curry's Partner
- 1950 This Side of the Law
as The Sheriff
- 1950 The Iroquois Trail
as Chief Sagamore
- 1950 Montana
as Charlie Penrose (uncredited)
- 1950 Backfire
as Det. Sgt. Pluther (uncredited)
- 1949 The Blonde Bandit
as Police Chief Ramsey
- 1949 Ranger of Cherokee Strip
as Chief Hunter
- 1949 The Big Wheel
as Deacon Jones
- 1949
- 1949 The Fountainhead
as Gas Station Executive (uncredited)
- 1949 Colorado Territory
as U.S. Marshal (uncredited)
- 1949 The Younger Brothers
as Deputy Joe
- 1949 Homicide
as George, Sheriff
- 1949 South of St. Louis
as Capt. Jeffrey
- 1949 Flaxy Martin
as Joe, Detective
- 1948 Adventures of Don Juan
as Turnkey (uncredited)
- 1948 Johnny Belinda
as Ben (uncredited)
- 1948 Two Guys from Texas
as Pete Nash
- 1948 Key Largo
as Sheriff Ben Wade
- 1948 Silver River
as 'Buck' Chevigee
- 1947 Life with Father
as The Policeman
- 1947 The Unfaithful
as Businessman with Hunter
- 1947 Cheyenne
as Timberline
- 1947 Possessed
as Norris
- 1947 Stallion Road
as Horse Rancher (uncredited)
- 1947 Bells of San Fernando
as Governor Don Sebastian Fernando
- 1947 Humoresque
as Moving Man (uncredited)
- 1946 The Time, The Place and The Girl
as Stage Manager (uncredited)
- 1946 The Man I Love
as Cop (uncredited)
- 1946 Never Say Goodbye
as Policeman (uncredited)
- 1946 So You Want to Play the Horses
as The Colonel (uncredited)
- 1946 Shadow of a Woman
as Mike, Police Lieutenant
- 1946 Two Guys from Milwaukee
as Broadcast Director (uncredited)
- 1946 Cinderella Jones
as Jailer
- 1945 San Antonio
as Cleve Andrews
- 1945 Frontier Days
as Ned-U.S. Marshal
- 1945 Danger Signal
as Policeman in Car
- 1945 The Horn Blows at Midnight
as The Chef (uncredited)
- 1944 The Conspirators
as Jennings (uncredited)
- 1944 The Mask of Dimitrios
as Abdul Dhris
- 1944 Trial by Trigger
as Brewster (uncredited)
- 1944 Passage to Marseille
as Second Mate (uncredited)
- 1943 Northern Pursuit
as Jean
- 1943 Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Bartender in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
- 1943 Action in the North Atlantic
as Seaman (uncredited)
- 1943 Mission to Moscow
as Heckler (uncredited)
- 1943 Edge of Darkness
as Jens Petersen
- 1943 Truck Busters
as Scrappy O'Brien
- 1943 Casablanca
as American (uncredited)
- 1943 The Hard Way
as Man in Audience (Uncredited)
- 1943 Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
as Bit Role
- 1942 Gentleman Jim
as Gambler in "Lucky Guy"
- 1942 Road to Morocco
as Kasim's Aide (uncredited)
- 1942 The Hidden Hand
as Matthews, the undertaker (uncredited)
- 1942 I Married a Witch
as Doorman (uncredited)
- 1942 Secret Enemies
as Hugo Mehl
- 1942 Across the Pacific
as Dan Morton
- 1942 My Favorite Blonde
as Policeman at Union Hall (uncredited)
- 1942 Klondike Fury
as Flight Dispatcher
- 1942 The Remarkable Andrew
as Policeman
- 1942 Treat 'Em Rough
as Police Captain
- 1942 North to the Klondike
as John Burke
- 1941 Pacific Blackout
as Colonel
- 1941 Law of the Timber
as Hodge Mason
- 1941 The Great Man's Lady
as Man #2, Hoyt City
- 1941 New York Town
as McAuliffe (uncredited)
- 1941 King of the Texas Rangers
as Capt. Tom King Sr.
- 1941 Bad Man of Deadwood
as Sheriff Jordan
- 1941 Sunset in Wyoming
as Jim Hayes
- 1941 Riders of Death Valley
as Rance Davis
- 1941 Scattergood Pulls the Strings
as Ben Mott
- 1941 The Great Train Robbery
as The Super
- 1940 The Texas Rangers Ride Again
as Pablo Slide Along
- 1940 Mystery Sea Raider
as Captain Norberg
- 1940 North West Mounted Police
as Indian
- 1940 Young Bill Hickok
as Marshal Evans
- 1940 Road to Singapore
as High Priest (uncredited)
- 1939 Days of Jesse James
as Train Passenger
- 1939 Geronimo
as Interpreter
- 1939 Our Leading Citizen
as Frank
- 1939 Port of Hate
as Hammond
- 1939 Juarez
as Lerdo de Tajada
- 1939 Union Pacific
as Indian (uncredited)
- 1939 Frontier Pony Express
as Cherokee
- 1939 Dodge City
as Barlow
- 1938 Tom Sawyer, Detective
as Sheriff Walker
- 1938 Hawk of the Wilderness
as Yellow Weasel
- 1938 Illegal Traffic
as Captain Moran
- 1938 King of Alcatraz
as Officer
- 1938 The Mysterious Rider
as Cap Folsom
- 1938 Touchdown, Army
as Pilot (uncredited)
- 1938 Rebellious Daughters
as Charlie, alias Clint Houston
- 1938 The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Mr. Cameron
- 1938 Cocoanut Grove
as Undetermined Role
- 1938 The Big Broadcast of 1938
as Passenger (uncredited)
- 1937 Born to the West
as Bart Hammond
- 1937 Amateur Crook
as Crone
- 1937 Hell Town
as Bart Hammond
- 1937 Thunder Trail
as Jeff Graves
- 1937 Sky Racket
as Benjamin Arnold
- 1937 Souls at Sea
as Mate
- 1937 Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
as Joe Stafford
- 1937 The Outcasts of Poker Flat
as Indian Jim
- 1937 Secret Agent X-9
as Baron Michael Karsten
- 1936 A Million to One
as John Kent Sr.
- 1936 Ride, Ranger, Ride
as Duval, aka Chief Tavibo
- 1936 Song of the Gringo
as Sheriff
- 1936 Mary of Scotland
as Messenger
- 1936 Prison Shadows
as Bert McNamee
- 1936 Sharad of Atlantis
as Unga Khan
- 1936 Treachery Rides the Range
as Colonel Drummond
- 1936 Desert Gold
as Chetley 'Chet' Kasedon
- 1935 Nevada
as Clem Dillon
- 1935 Wanderer of the Wasteland
as Guerd Larey
- 1935 Trails of the Wild
as RCMP Larry Doyle
- 1935 The Test
as Pepite La Joie
- 1935 'G' Men
as Fingerprint Expert
- 1935 Social Error
as Dean Carter
- 1935 On Probation
as Al Murray
- 1935 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
as Hamzulla Khan
- 1934 Student Tour
as Jeff Kane
- 1934 Wagon Wheels
as Kenneth Murdock
- 1934 The Last Round-up
as Jack Kells
- 1934 Come On, Marines!
as Lt. Allen
- 1933 Her Forgotten Past
as Donald Thorne
- 1933 The Intruder
as John Brandt
- 1933 Buffalo Stampede
as Smiley
- 1932 Officer Thirteen
as Tom Burke
- 1932 The Stoker
as Dick Martin
- 1931 The Flood
as David Bruce
- 1930 Those Who Dance
as Dan Hogan
- 1930 Isle of Escape
as Dave Wade
- 1929 Tiger Rose
as Devlin
- 1929 The Show of Shows
as Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
- 1929 Skin Deep
as Joe Daley
- 1929 From Headquarters
as Happy Smith
- 1929 No Defense
as Monte Collins
- 1929 The Greyhound Limited
as Monte
- 1928 Conquest
as Donald Overton
- 1928 White Shadows in the South Seas
as Dr. Matthew Lloyd
- 1928 Across the Atlantic
as Hugh Clayton
- 1927 Brass Knuckles
as Zac Harrison
- 1927 One-Round Hogan
as Robert Emmet Hogan
- 1927
- 1927 The Bush Leaguer
as Buchanan 'Specs' White
- 1927 The Black Diamond Express
as Dan Foster
- 1927 Bitter Apples
as John Wyncote
- 1927 The Brute
as Martin 'Easy-Going' Sondes
- 1927 Wolf's Clothing
as Barry Baline
- 1926 Across the Pacific
as Monte
- 1926 So This Is Paris
as Dr. Paul Giraud
- 1926 Other Women's Husbands
as Dick Lambert
- 1926 The Man Upstairs
as Geoffrey West
- 1925 Hogan's Alley
as Lefty O'Brien
- 1925 Red Hot Tires
as Al Jones
- 1925 The Limited Mail
as Bob Wilson / Bob Snobson
- 1925 Kiss Me Again
as Gaston Fleury
- 1925 Recompense
as Peter Graham
- 1924 The Dark Swan
as Lewis Dike
- 1924 The Lover of Camille
as Jean Gaspard Deburau
- 1924 Her Marriage Vow
as Bob Hilton
- 1924 Being Respectable
as Charles Carpenter
- 1924 Revelation
as Paul Granville
- 1924 Daughters of Pleasure
as Kent Merrill
- 1924 How to Educate a Wife
as Ernest Todd
- 1924 Mademoiselle Midnight
as Owen Burke / Jerry Brent
- 1924 The Marriage Circle
as Dr. Franz Braun
- 1924 Loving Lies
as Captain Dan stover
- 1923 Lucretia Lombard
as Stephen Winship
- 1923 Defying Destiny
as Jack Fenton
- 1923 The Purple Highway
as Edgar Prentice, aka Edgar Craig
- 1923 Main Street
as Dr. Will Kennicott
- 1923 Brass
as Philip Baldwin
- 1922 Broadway Rose
as Tom Darcy
- 1922 My Old Kentucky Home
as Richard Goodloe
- 1922 Peacock Alley
as Elmer Harmon
- 1921 Orphans of the Storm
as Danton
- 1921 The Affairs of Anatol
as Abner Elliott
- 1921 Moonlight and Honeysuckle
as Ted Musgrove
- 1921 A Broken Doll
as Tommy Dawes
- 1921 A Perfect Crime
as Wally Griggs
+ 37 more credits
Behind the camera (2)
- 1916 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Second Assistant Director
- 1915 The Birth of a Nation
Assistant Director, Stunts
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1952 This Is Your Life
1 episode