Montagu Love

Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: March 15, 1880
Day of Death: May 17, 1943 (63 years old)
Place of Birth: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
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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Actor King Philip II
The Sea Hawk

Actor Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff
The Son of Monte Cristo

Actor Inspector Cabot
North West Mounted Police

Actor Emil Gorlick
The Lone Wolf Strikes

Actor Professor Hartmann
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

Actor Don Alejandro Vega
The Mark of Zorro

Actor Marechal Sebastiani
All This, and Heaven Too

Actor Wiseman Clagett
Northwest Passage

Actor Delane
A Dispatch from Reuters

Actor Noble Bullerton
Private Affairs
1939
1938
1937

Actor Henry VIII
The Prince and the Pauper

Actor M. Courtois
Tovarich

Actor Detchard
The Prisoner of Zenda

Actor Lord Marshmorton
A Damsel in Distress

Actor Sir Arthur Herrick
London by Night

Actor William Ewart Gladstone
Parnell

Actor Capt. Abner Drew
Adventure's End

Actor Ratoffsky
One in a Million

Actor M. Cavaignac
The Life of Emile Zola
1936
1935
1934
1933
1932
1931
1930
1929

Actor Peterson
Bulldog Drummond

Actor George Whitley
Charming Sinners

Actor Brandy Mulane
Synthetic Sin

Actor Mikhail
The Mysterious Island

Actor Falon
The Mysterious Island

Actor Sir Bruce Haden
Her Private Life
Actor
The Voice Within

Actor John Williams
A Most Immoral Lady

Actor Dr. Nelson
Midstream

Actor Walter Sinclair
Silks and Saddles
1928
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1917

Actor Gregory Novik / Rasputin
Rasputin, the Black Monk

Actor Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
Forget-Me-Not

Actor Self - Cameo Appearance
The Volunteer

Actor Michael Pavloff
The Dancer's Peril

Actor Baron Wootchi
Yankee Pluck
Actor
The Dormant Power

Actor Jacques Revilly
The Awakening

Actor Jacques Cordet
The Brand of Satan

Actor
The Good for Nothing