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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.
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...
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).
Movies (Cast)
The Wind
Devotion
The Buccaneer
The Crusades
Kidnapped
Bulldog Drummond
Northwest Passage
Limehouse Blues
Juarez
Champagne Charlie
Outward Bound
Shining Victory
Professor Beware
The Son of the Sheik
The Prince and the Pauper
Tovarich
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Gunga Din
The Life of Emile Zola
A Damsel in Distress
The Man in the Iron Mask
Tennessee Johnson
The King of Kings
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Noose
The Mark of Zorro
Hudson's Bay
A Dispatch from Reuters
If I Were King
The Son of Monte Cristo
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
The Mysterious Island
The Mysterious Island
Back Pay
Lloyd's of London
The Constant Nymph
Kismet
Forever and a Day
Menace
Rulers of the Sea
The Devil and Miss Jones
Clive of India
The Sea Hawk
A Notorious Affair
The White Angel
The Divine Lady
The Remarkable Andrew
One in a Million
Adventure's End
We Are Not Alone
Love Comes Along
The Lone Wolf Strikes
The Night of Love
Inside the Lines
Parnell
The Last Warning
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Alexander Hamilton
The Fighting Devil Dogs
Hands Up!
Sons of Liberty
Vanity Fair
Lady for a Night
Stowaway
All This, and Heaven Too
Hearts in Exile
The Eternal City
Out of Singapore
At Twelve Midnight
Hi, Gaucho!
Love Bound
A Most Immoral Lady
The Midnight Lady
The Cat Creeps
Our Film Stars
Her Private Life
London by Night
A Son of the Sahara
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Don Juan
North West Mounted Police
The Country Doctor
Through the Toils
Sing, Baby, Sing
His Double Life
Husband and Wife
The Ancient Highway
Wings Over the Pacific
Frankie and Johnnie
Series (Cast)
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