Montagu Love
Date of birth: 1880-03-15
Place of birth: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Harry Montague Love, Montague Love
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).
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Forget-Me-Not
1917-04-16
Adventuress Stefanie Paoli forsakes her lover, humble fisherman Gabriel Barrato, for the arms of a n
The Volunteer
1917-12-24
Madge Evans, World Film Corp. juvenile star, is sent to her Quaker grandparents, Timothy and Tabitha
Rasputin, the Black Monk
1917-10-05
The story of the rise and fall of Rasputin, the so-called "mad monk" who dominated the court of the
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938-05-13
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the
Out of the Storm
1926-04-10
Out of the Storm is a 1926 silent drama.
The Cross Bearer
1918-04-01
Cardinal Mercier protects the altar of his church from desecration when German forces invade the Bel
The Wind
1928-09-15
When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and s
Gunga Din
1939-01-26
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with
The Silent Lover
1926-11-21
The dissolute Count Pierre Tornai, having dissipated his fortune in Paris, embezzles embassy funds w
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942-09-18
England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany
The Greater Will
1915-12-10
Years ago Peggy Sloane, only daughter of old Cornelius Sloane, familiarly known as the Professor, an
The Dancer's Peril
1917-03-12
The Grand Duke Alexis has been happy with his wife, Lola, formerly the queen of the St. Petersburg b
The Sea Hawk
1940-08-10
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with D
The Ancient Highway
1925-11-08
When not cutting down trees and shouting "TIMMMM-BERRRRR!", Jack Holt has to deal with someone who's
Hands Up!
1926-01-11
Jack, a southern spy during the Civil War, must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is compl
Lady for a Night
1942-01-05
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into h
The Gilded Cage
1916-10-09
In The Gilded Cage, Alice Brady plays Princess Honore, who falls in love with a handsome prince who
Torpedo of Doom
1966-01-01
This is a TV-movie feature edited from the 1938 Republic serial "Fighting Devil Dogs"
The Prince and the Pauper
1937-04-30
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young
Tovarich
1937-12-25
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941-04-11
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. O
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937-09-03
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who take
A Damsel in Distress
1937-11-19
Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll
The Son of Monte Cristo
1940-12-05
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil Gen
Bulldog Drummond
1929-05-02
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humd
The Desert's Price
1925-12-13
Returning from college, Wils McCann discovers that the long-standing feud between his family and the
Lloyd's of London
1936-11-25
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close f
North West Mounted Police
1940-10-22
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) trave
Devotion
1946-04-05
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev.
The Lone Wolf Strikes
1940-01-26
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
The Son of the Sheik
1926-09-05
Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts
The Remarkable Andrew
1942-03-05
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budge
Wings Over the Pacific
1943-07-23
An American officer discovers a Nazi plot to take over an island in the Pacific on which oil has bee
The Haunted House
1928-11-04
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the wi
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940-02-23
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syph
Outward Bound
1930-09-17
A group of strangers find themselves aboard an unmanned ship, surrounded by fog and uncertain of the
The Divine Lady
1928-12-26
Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
Hudson's Bay
1940-12-24
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hu
If I Were King
1938-09-28
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his
Rulers of the Sea
1939-11-08
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks
His Double Life
1933-12-14
Priam Farrel is a celebrated artist but a social recluse. When his valet dies of a sudden illness, a
Limehouse Blues
1934-12-11
Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seam
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1935-11-14
A Russian prince goes to Monte Carlo just after World War I with money supplied to him by Parisian R
The Cabaret
1918-06-10
Helene, who dances in a Greenwich Village cabaret accompanied on the violin by her grandfather, lose
Back Pay
1930-06-01
Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a
We Are Not Alone
1939-11-25
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife
Charming Sinners
1929-08-17
Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles
The Midnight Lady
1932-05-15
The hard-boiled owner of a big-city speakeasy is reunited with her daughter, who has been raised to
Roulette
1924-01-19
Before he can avenge a crooked card game, Dan Carrington suffers heart failure and dies in his chair
Out of Singapore
1932-09-23
While a ship's captain is being slowly poisoned, a gang of thugs try to take over the ship.
The Expectant Father
1934-06-02
Ernest Truex's wife is in the hospital to give birth to their first child, and she wants him there.
London by Night
1937-07-30
A newspaperman, his canine companion, and an adventurous socialite investigate an umbrella-wielding
Love Comes Along
1930-01-05
An American sailor comes to a seedy banana republic, and finds a fellow yank, a stranded girl, as a
Alexander Hamilton
1931-09-12
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
Parnell
1937-06-04
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his re
Shining Victory
1941-05-30
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praeco
Sons of Liberty
1939-05-20
Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, Amer
The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938-05-27
Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
Sutter's Gold
1936-03-01
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Kismet
1930-10-30
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to r
Inside the Lines
1930-07-05
During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibra
The Last Warning
1928-12-25
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the a
The Country Doctor
1936-03-12
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers qu
The Scarlet Oath
1916-10-23
Driven from Russia by the persecution of the police, who had caused the death of his wife, was Ivan
Stolen Orders
1918-06-02
A renegade American and his innocent daughter become entangled in the snares of German secret agents
Yankee Pluck
1917-05-21
Once a wealthy man, John Pollard now resides in reduced circumstances in Washington, D.C. with his p
The Eternal City
1923-12-17
War drama - Fitzmaurice was able to film King Victor Emmanuel III and Benito Mussolini reviewing Ita
The Night of Love
1927-01-22
Montero, son of a Gypsy leader, is about to take a bride according to primitive ritual, when the Duk
Synthetic Sin
1929-01-06
A young woman impulsively marries a young playwright who whisks her away to New York promises her a
Clive of India
1935-01-25
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous
Good Time Charley
1927-11-05
Song-and-dance man Charles Edward Keene (Good Time Charley) is bereft when his wife, Elaine, dies as
Sing, Baby, Sing
1936-08-21
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed i
Reunion
1936-11-20
Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into
Our Film Stars
1919-11-22
First episode of a series of reports on movie stars. Those seen include Douglas Fairbanks, Montague
Hi, Gaucho!
1935-10-10
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.
Through the Toils
1919-06-08
Author Noel Graham goes to the little village of Mondon, where his ancestors lived, for solitude to
The King of Kings
1927-04-19
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, w
The Constant Nymph
1943-06-23
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. W
The Mark of Zorro
1940-11-08
In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainou
The Hawk's Nest
1928-05-27
Lost 1928 film by Benjamin Benjamin Christensen
The White Angel
1936-06-25
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurs
The Men She Married
1916-11-27
Tricked into marriage with a villain, the woman, believing him dead, marries another, only to have t
Champagne Charlie
1936-05-06
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
Frankie and Johnnie
1936-04-30
The story of a woman, Frankie, and the man who has done her wrong, Johnnie.
Menace
1934-11-22
A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's deat
Juarez
1939-06-10
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment f
The Crusades
1935-08-21
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
The Man in the Iron Mask
1939-07-13
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t
Professor Beware
1938-07-29
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join
The Hidden Scar
1916-10-15
Janet Hall (Ethel Clayton) is "wronged" by Henry Dalton (Montagu Love) and becomes pregnant. She has
Husband and Wife
1916-08-28
When Doris Baker spends her husband Dick into serious debt, he embezzles funds from the bank where h
A Woman's Way
1916-08-07
Marion Livingston, daughter of General Livingston, boss of the Elsinore coal mines, rescues Jack Sta
Adventure's End
1937-12-05
Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuad
Kidnapped
1938-05-27
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland
The Noose
1928-01-29
In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his b
The Cat Creeps
1930-11-10
Disappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion.
All This, and Heaven Too
1940-07-05
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Du
A Notorious Affair
1930-04-26
A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.
Double Cross Roads
1930-04-20
Ex-convict David Harvey attempts to go straight and settles in a small town where he meets and falls
The Mad Marriage
1925-01-30
Mary Jane is a girl born out of wedlock whose mother, Alice, attempts to offer her respectability by
Don Juan
1926-08-06
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women g
Northwest Passage
1940-02-23
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who jo
At Twelve Midnight
1933-05-28
A hero in a robbery comes up against a crime boss and the crooked guardian of the girl he loves
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940-10-19
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news age
The Riddle: Woman
1920-10-03
Lilla Gravert falls into the clutches of a master blackmailer, Eric Helsingor.
The Devil's Toy
1916-03-06
The Devil's Toy is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Harley Knoles and starring Adele Bl
Forever and a Day
1943-01-21
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral
The Mysterious Island
1929-10-05
On a volcanic island near the Kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientis
The Mysterious Island
1929-10-05
On a volcanic island near the Kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientis
Stowaway
1932-03-01
On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the adv
Love Bound
1932-03-01
A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy
Character Studies
1928-03-15
Montagu Love pretty much plays himself in this Vitaphone short where he starts off by introducing hi
Love's Redemption
1921-12-19
On the island of Jamaica, a young man of promise, Clifford Standish, is slowly sinking into an alcoh
Vanity Fair
1932-03-15
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the positio
The Beauty Shop
1922-05-13
Dr. Budd is a New York physician specializing in "beauty". His business is successful but he is stil
Rose of the Golden West
1927-09-25
Juan is about to elope with the convent-bred Elena, when he is chosen to assassinate the governor wh
Brooding Eyes
1926-03-15
Slim Jim Carey, the leader of a criminal gang, is in reality a nobleman called Lord Talbois, and his
Reno
1930-09-30
A film by George Crone
The Buccaneer
1938-02-04
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
The Silver Lining
1932-04-16
A women in prison tale. One's rich, one's poor. Can they prosper after prison?
The Tender Hour
1927-05-01
Marcia Kane, daughter of an American capitalist, is persuaded by her father to marry the expatriated
One in a Million
1937-01-01
American theatrical manager discovers Greta Muller preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and bri
Forever
1921-10-16
Architect Peter Ibbetson is hired by the Duke of Towers to design a building for him. Ibbetson disco
The Devil's Skipper
1928-02-01
The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast
The Dormant Power
1917-10-22
Hollywood Extra Girl
1935-08-22
A short semi-documentary about a "typical extra girl" on a DeMille film.
The Suicide Club
1914-07-01
A colonel saves a prince's life when he joins a club of men who draw lots to kill one another.
A Son of the Sahara
1924-04-13
As a boy, Raoul is reared by an Arab tribe in Algerian Sahara. Years later, as a refined Europeanize
The Case of Becky
1921-10-09
Itinerant magician Balzamo arrives in the town where Dr. Emerson and his pretty young wife live. Smi
Private Affairs
1940-07-05
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love
Her Private Life
1929-08-25
A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young Americ
A Most Immoral Lady
1929-09-22
Laura Sergeant (Leatrice Joy), together with her husband, Humphrey Sergeant (Sidney Blackmer) operat
The Voice Within
1929-04-15
Early talkie starring Eve Southern and Walter Pidgeon.
Midstream
1929-07-29
Following a successful experimental operation to reverse age, a wealthy businessman stages his own d
A Broadway Saint
1919-07-21
Dick Vernon (Montagu Love) lives in New York but hasn't succumbed to the city's vices. When his vaca
What's Wrong with the Women?
1922-09-12
Men try to understand the women in their lives.
The Life of Emile Zola
1937-09-09
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair
Jesse James
1927-10-15
A light approach on the life of Jesse James.
Secrets of Paris
1922-10-01
The Riding Tornado
1932-05-04
Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from Engle. T
Tennessee Johnson
1942-12-01
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story b
Sinners in Heaven
1924-09-09
Alan Croft, a young aviator and a girl from a strict English background are stranded on a cannibal i
Restless Wives
1924-01-06
1924 picture directed by Gregory La Cava.
Silks and Saddles
1929-01-20
Jockey Johnny Spencer loses his job with Mrs. Calhoun for throwing a race. An adventuress named Sybi
Hearts in Exile
1915-04-11
In Czarist Russia, attractive Anna Ivanovna has consecrated her life to work among Russia's persecut
The Awakening
1917-12-03
Abandoned on the church steps at birth Jacques Revilly is a pariah in his small hamlet finally headi
The World and His Wife
1920-07-18
Elderly Spanish nobleman Don Julian is happily married to Teodora, a beautiful young girl, when his
The Brand of Satan
1917-07-09
A man discovers that he has two personalities--and one of them is a notorious strangler.
The Grouch
1918-11-25
A Royal Family
1915-08-16
The King of Kurland suggests a marriage between his son, the crown prince, and Angela, the Princess
The Challenge
1916-12-10
Quarrier's rival Robert Lester schemes to have the engineer imprisoned, but the government pardons h
The Hand Invisible
1919-03-17
Steel magnate Rodney Graham divorces his wife, Alice, after she suffers an injury that renders her u
Three Green Eyes
1919-04-28
Lucille Vale is in love with struggling architect Paul Arden, but her mother believes that Allen Gra
The Good for Nothing
1917-12-10
Who's Cheating?
1924-04-07
Myrtle Meers breaks her engagement with Larry Fields when he proves to be a coward. Fields goes to w
Love of Women
1924-06-30
Cynthia Redfield elopes with Ernest Herrick, against the wishes of her socially ambitious mother and
The Place of Honeymoons
1920-11-01
Parisian opera star Nora Harrigan is idolized by legions but not her rival Flora Desimone. Edward Co
The Haunted Ship
1927-12-01
A young sailor named John Shreve on the cargo ship Golden Bought falls for a woman, Mary, who is try
Broken Ties
1918-02-18
West Indian born Corinne La Force, who is biracial, is raised by Henry Hasbrook after her father's d
Man's Plaything
1920-05-10
While working as a flower girl in Devlin Maddox's nightclub, Nellie Vaughan meets wealthy young Pelt
The Rough Neck
1919-02-03
John Masters leaves his lumber mining camp when he is summoned East by his dying father, a political
The Steel King
1919-11-24
Steel millionaire John Blake buys the auctioned estate of the formerly wealthy Fairchilds to avenge
The Leopardess
1923-03-26
On a South Sea island, wealthy hunter Scott Quaigg meets Tiare, the daughter of a drunken Scotsman a
One Hour of Love
1927-01-15
Jerry McKay (Jacqueline Logan), a spoiled and willful society girl, on the eve of a flighty engageme
The Face in the Moonlight
1915-06-28
Week End Husbands
1924-02-10
William Randall becomes a bootlegger to provide his wife with the luxuries she demands. As a consequ