Montagu Love
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| Born | Harry Montague Love 15 March 1877 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK |
| Died | 17 May 1943 (aged 66) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Montague Love |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1914–1943 |
| Spouse | Marjorie Hollis (1929-1943) (his death) Gertrude Love (1908-1928) (divorced) |
Montagu Love (15 March 1877 – 17 May 1943), also known as Montague Love, was an English screen, stage and vaudeville actor.
Born Harry Montague Love in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, and educated in Great Britain, Love began his career as an artist and military correspondent. His first important job was as a London newspaper cartoonist. Love honed basic stage talents in London, and in 1913 sailed to the U.S. with a road-company production of Cyril Maude's Grumpy.
Usually cast in heartless villain roles, in the 1920s, he played opposite 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 also played the cowardly and treasonous Bishop of the Black Canons in The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn. 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 1937, he played King Henry VIII in the first talking film version of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper. 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. His last film, Devotion, was released three years after his death in 1943. His interment was located at Chapel of the Pines Crematory.
[edit] Partial filmography
- Forever (1921)
- Restless Wives (1924)
- Son of the Sheik (1926)
- Don Juan (1926)
- Hands Up! (1926)
- The Hawk's Nest (1928)
- The Noose (1928)
- The Wind (1928)
- The Last Warning (1929)
- The Divine Lady (1929)
- Bulldog Drummond (1929)
- The Mysterious Island (1929)
- Outward Bound (1930)
- The Lion and the Lamb (1930)
- Alexander Hamilton (1931)
- Vanity Fair (1932)
- Limehouse Blues (1934)
- Clive of India (1935)
- The Crusades (1935)
- The White Angel (1936)
- The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
- Parnell (1937)
- The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
- The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
- Adventure's End (1937)
- Tovarich (1937)
- The Buccaneer (1938)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938), twelve-chapter serial
- Gunga Din (1939)
- Juarez (1939)
- Rulers of the Sea (1939)
- Sons of Liberty (1939), short
- The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
- We Are Not Alone (1939)
- Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
- The Sea Hawk (1940)
- Private Affairs (1940)
- All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
- The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940)
- A Dispatch from Reuter's (1940)
- North West Mounted Police (1940)
- The Mark of Zorro (1940) - Don Alejandro Vega
- The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
- The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
- Shining Victory (1941)
- Lady for a Night (1942)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
- Tennessee Johnson (1942)
- The Constant Nymph (1943)
- Devotion (1946)
