Montagu Love
170 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 15, 1880
- Died
- May 17, 1943 (age 63)
- Place of birth
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Harry Montague Love · Montague Love
Biography
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Montagu Love (15 March 1880 – 17 May 1943), also known as Montague Love, was an English screen, stage and vaudeville actor.
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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).
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 7.5 The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938 · Film
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★ 7.2 The Mark of Zorro
1940 · Film
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★ 6.5 Gunga Din
1939 · Film
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★ 7.2 The Sea Hawk
1940 · Film
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★ 6.7 The Life of Emile Zola
1937 · Film
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★ 7.3 The Wind
1928 · Film
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★ 6.5 Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942 · Film
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★ 6.4 The King of Kings
1927 · Film
Montagu Love: movies and TV shows
Acting (170)
- 1966 Torpedo of Doom
as Col. White
- 1946 Devotion
as Rev. Brontë
- 1943 Wings Over the Pacific
as Jim Butler
- 1943 The Constant Nymph
as Albert Sanger
- 1943 Forever and a Day
as Sir John Bunn
- 1942 Tennessee Johnson
as Chief Justice Chase
- 1942 Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
as General Jerome Lawford
- 1942 The Remarkable Andrew
as General George Washington
- 1942 Lady for a Night
as Judge
- 1941 Shining Victory
as Dr. Blake
- 1941 The Devil and Miss Jones
as Harrison
- 1940 Hudson's Bay
as Governor D'Argenson
- 1940 The Son of Monte Cristo
as Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff
- 1940 The Mark of Zorro
as Don Alejandro Vega
- 1940 North West Mounted Police
as Inspector Cabot
- 1940 A Dispatch from Reuters
as Delane
- 1940 The Sea Hawk
as King Philip II
- 1940 All This, and Heaven Too
as Marechal Sebastiani
- 1940 Private Affairs
as Noble Bullerton
- 1940 Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Professor Hartmann
- 1940 Northwest Passage
as Wiseman Clagett
- 1940 The Lone Wolf Strikes
as Emil Gorlick
- 1939 We Are Not Alone
as Major Millman
- 1939 Rulers of the Sea
as Malcolm Grant
- 1939 The Man in the Iron Mask
as Spanish Ambassador
- 1939 Juarez
as Jose de Montares
- 1939 Sons of Liberty
as George Washington
- 1939 Gunga Din
as Colonel Weed
- 1938 If I Were King
as General Dudon
- 1938 Professor Beware
as Professor Schmutz
- 1938 The Fighting Devil Dogs
as General White
- 1938 Kidnapped
as Colonel Whitehead
- 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Bishop of the Black Canons
- 1938 The Buccaneer
as Admiral Cockburn
- 1937 Tovarich
as M. Courtois
- 1937 Adventure's End
as Capt. Abner Drew
- 1937 A Damsel in Distress
as Lord Marshmorton
- 1937 The Life of Emile Zola
as M. Cavaignac
- 1937 The Prisoner of Zenda
as Detchard
- 1937 London by Night
as Sir Arthur Herrick
- 1937 Parnell
as William Ewart Gladstone
- 1937 The Prince and the Pauper
as Henry VIII
- 1937 One in a Million
as Ratoffsky
- 1936 Lloyd's of London
as Hawkins
- 1936 Reunion
as Sir Basil Crawford
- 1936 Sing, Baby, Sing
as Robert Wilson
- 1936 The White Angel
as Mr. Bullock
- 1936 Champagne Charlie
as Ivan Suchine
- 1936 Frankie and Johnnie
as Colonel Brand
- 1936 The Country Doctor
as Sir Basil Crawford
- 1936 Sutter's Gold
as Capt. Kettleson
- 1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as Director
- 1935 Hi, Gaucho!
as Hillario Bolario
- 1935 Hollywood Extra Girl
as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
- 1935 The Crusades
as The Blacksmith
- 1935 Clive of India
as Governor Pigot
- 1934 Limehouse Blues
as Pug Talbot
- 1934 Menace
as Police Inspector
- 1934
- 1933 His Double Life
as Duncan Farrel
- 1933 At Twelve Midnight
as Captain James alias The Fox
- 1932 Out of Singapore
as Capt. Scar Murray
- 1932 The Midnight Lady
as Harvey Austin
- 1932 The Riding Tornado
as Walt Corson
- 1932 The Silver Lining
as Michael Moore
- 1932 Vanity Fair
as Marquis of Steyne
- 1932 Stowaway
as Groder
- 1932 Love Bound
as John Randolph
- 1931 Alexander Hamilton
as Thomas Jefferson
- 1931 The Lion and the Lamb
as Professor Tottie
- 1930 The Cat Creeps
as Hendricks
- 1930 Kismet
as The Jailer
- 1930 Reno
as Alexander W. Brett
- 1930 Outward Bound
as Mr. Lingley
- 1930 Inside the Lines
as Governor of Gibraltar
- 1930 Back Pay
as Charles Wheeler
- 1930 A Notorious Affair
as Sir Thomas Hanley
- 1930 Double Cross Roads
as Gene Dyke
- 1930 Love Comes Along
as Sangredo
- 1929 The Mysterious Island
as Falon / Mikhail
- 1929 A Most Immoral Lady
as John Williams
- 1929 Her Private Life
as Sir Bruce Haden
- 1929 Charming Sinners
as George Whitley
- 1929 Midstream
as Dr. Nelson
- 1929 Bulldog Drummond
as Peterson
- 1929
- 1929 Silks and Saddles
as Walter Sinclair
- 1929 Synthetic Sin
as Brandy Mulane
- 1928 The Divine Lady
as Capt. Hardy
- 1928 The Last Warning
as Arthur McHugh
- 1928 The Haunted House
as Mad Doctor
- 1928 The Wind
as Roddy
- 1928 The Hawk's Nest
as Dan Daugherty
- 1928
- 1928 The Devil's Skipper
as First Mate
- 1928 The Noose
as Buck Gordon
- 1927 The Haunted Ship
as Captain Simon Gant
- 1927 Good Time Charley
as John Hartwell
- 1927 Jesse James
as Frederick Mimms
- 1927 Rose of the Golden West
as Gen. Vallero
- 1927 The Tender Hour
as Grand Duke Sergei
- 1927 The King of Kings
as Roman Centurion
- 1927 The Night of Love
as Duke de la Garda
- 1927 One Hour of Love
as J.W. McKay
- 1926 The Silent Lover
as Ben Achmed
- 1926 The Son of the Sheik
as Ghabah
- 1926 Don Juan
as Count Giano Donati
- 1926 The Social Highwayman
as Ducket Nelson
- 1926 Out of the Storm
as Timothy Keith
- 1926 Brooding Eyes
as Pat Callaghan
- 1926 Hands Up!
as Capt. Edward Logan
- 1925 The Desert's Price
as Jim Martin
- 1925 The Ancient Highway
as Ivan Hurd
- 1925
- 1924 Sinners in Heaven
as Native Chief
- 1924 Love of Women
as Bronson Gibbs
- 1924 A Son of the Sahara
as Sultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier
- 1924 Who's Cheating?
as Harrison Fields
- 1924 Week End Husbands
as Thomas Mowry
- 1924 Roulette
as Dan Carrington
- 1924 Restless Wives
as Hugo Cady
- 1923 The Eternal City
as Minghelli
- 1923 The Leopardess
as Scott Quaigg
- 1922 Secrets of Paris
as The Schoolmaster
- 1922 What's Wrong with the Women?
as Arthur Belden
- 1922 The Beauty Shop
as Maldonado
- 1921 Love's Redemption
as Frederick Kent
- 1921 Forever
as Colonel Ibbetson
- 1921 The Case of Becky
as Prof. Balzamo
- 1921 Shams of Society
as Herbert Porter
- 1920 The Place of Honeymoons
as Edward Courtlandt
- 1920 The Riddle: Woman
as Larz Olrik
- 1920 The World and His Wife
as Don Julian
- 1920 Man's Plaything
as Pelton Vab Teel
- 1919 The Steel King
as John Blake
- 1919
- 1919 A Broadway Saint
as Dick Vernon
- 1919 Through the Toils
as Noel Graham / Lewis Moffat
- 1919 Three Green Eyes
as Allen Granat
- 1919 The Quickening Flame
as John Steele
- 1919 The Hand Invisible
as Rodney Graham
- 1919 The Rough Neck
as John Masters
- 1918 The Grouch
as Donald Graham
- 1918 The Cabaret
as Jaffrey Darrel
- 1918 Stolen Orders
as John Le Page
- 1918 The Cross Bearer
as Cardinal Mercier
- 1918 Broken Ties
as John Fleming
- 1917
- 1917 The Awakening
as Jacques Revilly
- 1917
- 1917 Rasputin, the Black Monk
as Gregory Novik / Rasputin
- 1917 The Brand of Satan
as Jacques Cordet
- 1917 Yankee Pluck
as Baron Wootchi
- 1917 Forget-Me-Not
as Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
- 1917 The Dancer's Peril
as Michael Pavloff
- 1916 The Challenge
as Quarrier
- 1916 The Men She Married
as Jerry Trainor
- 1916 Bought and Paid For
as Robert Stafford
- 1916 The Scarlet Oath
as Nicholas Savaroff
- 1916 The Hidden Scar
as Henry Dalton
- 1916 The Gilded Cage
as Baron Stefano
- 1916 Friday the 13th
as Count Varneloff
- 1916 Husband and Wife
as Patrick Alliston
- 1916 A Woman's Way
as Oliver Whitney
- 1916 The Devil's Toy
as Wilfred Barsley
- 1915 The Greater Will
as Stuart Watson
- 1915 A Royal Family
as Crown Prince of Kurland
- 1915
- 1915
- 1914 The Suicide Club
as Prince Florizel
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1917