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Montagu Love

Montagu Love

Birthday: 1880-03-15 | 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1943
The Constant Nymph

as    Albert Sanger

1943
Wings Over the Pacific

as    Jim Butler

1942
The Remarkable Andrew

as    General George Washington

1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

as    General Jerome Lawford

1942
Lady for a Night

as    Judge

1940
A Dispatch from Reuters

as    Delane

1940
The Mark of Zorro

as    Don Alejandro Vega

1940
The Lone Wolf Strikes

as    Emil Gorlick

1940
The Son of Monte Cristo

as    Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff

1940
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

as    Professor Hartmann

1939
Gunga Din

as    Colonel Weed

1939
Sons of Liberty

as    George Washington

1939
We Are Not Alone

as    Major Millman

1939
The Man in the Iron Mask

as    Spanish Ambassador

1938
The Fighting Devil Dogs

as    General White

1937
Adventure's End

as    Capt. Abner Drew

1937
The Prisoner of Zenda

as    Detchard

1937
London by Night

as    Sir Arthur Herrick

1937
Parnell

as    William Ewart Gladstone

1936
Sutter's Gold

as    Capt. Kettleson

1936
Frankie and Johnnie

as    Colonel Brand

1936
Sing, Baby, Sing

as    Robert Wilson

1935
Clive of India

as    Governor Pigot

1935
The Crusades

as    The Blacksmith

1934
Menace

as    Police Inspector

1932
Out of Singapore

as    Capt. Scar Murray

1930
The Cat Creeps

as    Hendricks

1930
Love Comes Along

as    Sangredo

1930
Kismet

as    The Jailer

1929
Bulldog Drummond

as    Peterson