Montagu Love

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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 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).

The Adventures of Robin Hood

7.5

The Mark of Zorro

7.1

Gunga Din

6.5

The Life of Emile Zola

6.7

The Sea Hawk

7.2

The Wind

7.3

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

6.5

The Devil and Miss Jones

7.7

The King of Kings

6.5

Northwest Passage

6.3

The Prisoner of Zenda

7.5

All This, and Heaven Too

7.2

The Prince and the Pauper

6.7

North West Mounted Police

6.3

A Damsel in Distress

6.4

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

6.3

The Man in the Iron Mask

7.1

The Son of the Sheik

6.2

The Last Warning

6.6

Bulldog Drummond

6.5

The Divine Lady

5.3

The Constant Nymph

5.8

Juarez

6.5

Lloyd's of London

7.2

The Mysterious Island

5.4

The Crusades

6.2

Don Juan

6.5

Outward Bound

5.9

Devotion

6.0

His Double Life

6.1

A Dispatch from Reuters

5.7

Lady for a Night

5.2

If I Were King

6.7

Clive of India

4.6

Forever and a Day

7.4

The Son of Monte Cristo

6.2

Hudson's Bay

6.2

Inside the Lines

5.1

The Buccaneer

6.4

Hands Up!

5.3

Shining Victory

5.9

Sons of Liberty

6.0

Tennessee Johnson

6.1

The Lone Wolf Strikes

6.3

Parnell

4.6

A Notorious Affair

4.4

Limehouse Blues

4.2

Back Pay

4.0

London by Night

6.0

Alexander Hamilton

4.5

Love Bound

4.5

Sing, Baby, Sing

5.6

Hearts in Exile

4.0

Tovarich

6.2

We Are Not Alone

6.1

The White Angel

8.0

Champagne Charlie

4.8

Professor Beware

6.1

One in a Million

7.0

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

6.3

The Midnight Lady

5.3

The Country Doctor

6.0

Adventure's End

5.0

Kidnapped

4.7

The Remarkable Andrew

8.2

Wings Over the Pacific

4.5

Rulers of the Sea

6.5

Out of Singapore

5.5

Kismet

3.5

Hi, Gaucho!

7.5

Menace

6.5

At Twelve Midnight

4.5

Vanity Fair

5.5

The Ancient Highway

6.0

Love Comes Along

5.0

The Fighting Devil Dogs

6.0

The Eternal City

6.0

The Night of Love

5.0

Our Film Stars

6.0

Through the Toils

6.0

Frankie and Johnnie

5.0

Husband and Wife

1.0

The Noose

7.0

The Cat Creeps

6.0

Stowaway

5.0

Hollywood Extra Girl

6.0

A Son of the Sahara

5.0

Her Private Life

1.0

A Most Immoral Lady

1.0

Forget-Me-Not

0.0

The Volunteer

0.0

Rasputin, the Black Monk

0.0

Out of the Storm

0.0

The Cross Bearer

0.0

The Silent Lover

0.0

The Greater Will

0.0

The Dancer's Peril

0.0

The Gilded Cage

0.0

Torpedo of Doom

0.0

The Desert's Price

0.0

The Haunted House

0.0

The Cabaret

0.0

Charming Sinners

0.0

Roulette

0.0

The Expectant Father

0.0

Sutter's Gold

0.0

The Scarlet Oath

0.0

Stolen Orders

0.0

Yankee Pluck

0.0

Synthetic Sin

0.0

Good Time Charley

0.0

Reunion

0.0

The Hawk's Nest

0.0

The Men She Married

0.0

The Hidden Scar

0.0

A Woman's Way

0.0

Double Cross Roads

0.0

The Mad Marriage

0.0

The Riddle: Woman

0.0

The Devil's Toy

0.0

Character Studies

0.0

Love's Redemption

0.0

The Beauty Shop

0.0

Rose of the Golden West

0.0

Brooding Eyes

0.0

Reno

0.0

The Silver Lining

0.0

The Tender Hour

0.0

Forever

0.0

The Devil's Skipper

0.0

The Dormant Power

0.0

The Suicide Club

0.0

The Case of Becky

0.0

Private Affairs

0.0

The Voice Within

0.0

Midstream

0.0

A Broadway Saint

0.0

What's Wrong with the Women?

0.0

Jesse James

0.0

Secrets of Paris

0.0

The Riding Tornado

0.0

Sinners in Heaven

0.0

Restless Wives

0.0

Silks and Saddles

0.0

The Awakening

0.0

The World and His Wife

0.0

The Brand of Satan

0.0

The Grouch

0.0

A Royal Family

0.0

The Challenge

0.0

The Hand Invisible

0.0

Three Green Eyes

0.0

The Good for Nothing

0.0

Who's Cheating?

0.0

Love of Women

0.0

The Place of Honeymoons

0.0

The Haunted Ship

0.0

Broken Ties

0.0