Montagu Love

Birthday: Mar 15, 1880

Bio: Burly, military-mustached British actor Montague Love may well have been the finest villain of the silent screen. Love's first important job was as a London newspaper cartoonist; assigned to cover the Boer War, Love gained popularity by virtue of his vivid battle sketches. After launching his stage career in Britain, Love came to the U.S. in a 1913 road-company… More Bio: Burly, military-mustached British actor Montague Love may well have been the finest villain of the silent screen. Love's first important job was as a London newspaper cartoonist; assigned to cover the Boer War, Love gained popularity by virtue of his vivid battle sketches. After launching his stage career in Britain, Love came to the U.S. in a 1913 road-company production of Cyril Maude's Grumpy. His film career commenced at New Jersey's World Studios in 1915. Concentrating on villainy in the 1920s, Love menaced Valentino in Son of the Sheik (1926), John Barrymore in Don Juan (1926), and Lillian Gish in The Wind (1928). Despite the sinister nature of his roles, the offscreen Love was highly respected for his courteous nature and his courage under pressure. During the talkie era, Love's bad-guy activities diminished to the point that he was avuncular and likeable in such films as A Damsel in Distress (1937) and Gunga Din (1939). He was often called upon to portray historic leaders, notably Henry VIII in The Prince and the Pauper (1937), King Philip II in The Sea Hawk (1940), and two American presidents: Jefferson in Alexander Hamilton (1931) and Washington in The Remarkable Andrew (1942). Montague Love's final film, The Constant Nymph, was released three years after his death in 1943. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Filmography

Devotion (1945)
- Rev. Bronte
Holy Matrimony (1943)
- Judge
Wings Over the Pacific (1943)
- Jim Butler
The Constant Nymph (1943)
- Albert Sanger
Forever and a Day (1943)
- Sir John Bunn
Fighting Devil Dogs (1943)
- Actor
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
- Jerome Lawford
Lady for a Night (1941)
- Judge
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
- Harrison
- 100%
Son of Monte Cristo (1941)
- Baron Von Neuhoff
Hudson's Bay (1940)
- Governor D'Argenson
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
- Don Alejandro Vega
- 100%
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
- Marechal Sebastiani
- 83%
The Sea Hawk (1940)
- King Phillip II
- 100%
Northwest Passage (1940)
- Wiseman Clagett
- 100%
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
- Prof. Hartmann
We Are Not Alone (1939)
- Maj. Millman
Rulers of the Sea (1939)
- Malcolm Grant
Juarez (1939)
- Jose de Montares
Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
- Spanish Ambassador
Gunga Din (1939)
- Colonel
- 92%
Land of Liberty (1939)
- Actor
If I Were King (1938)
- Gen. Dudon
Professor Beware (1938)
- Dr. "Prof." Schmutz
Kidnapped (1938)
- English Officer
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- Director, Bishop of the Black Cannons
- 100%
The Buccaneer (1938)
- Adm. Cockburn
Tovarich (1937)
- Courtoiv
Adventure's End (1937)
- Capt. Abner Drew
A Damsel in Distress (1937)
- Lord John Marshmorton
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
- Cavaignac
- 70%
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
- Detchard
- 100%
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
- Henry VIII
London by Night (1937)
- Sir Arthur Herrick
Lloyd's of London (1936)
- Hawkins
One in a Million (1936)
- Ratoffsky
The Crusades (1935)
- The Blacksmith
His Double Life (1933)
- Duncan Farrel
Vanity Fair (1932)
- The Marquis of Steyne
Murder on the High Seas (1932)
- John Randolph
Riding Tornado (1932)
- Walt Carson
Outward Bound (1930)
- Mr. Lingley
The Cat Creeps (1930)
- Hendricks
Inside the Lines (1930)
- Governor of Gibraltar
The Mysterious Island (1929)
- Falon
Bulldog Drummond (1929)
- Carl Peterson
The Divine Lady (1929)
- Captain Hardy
The Last Warning (1929)
- McHugh
The Wind (1928)
- Roddy Wirt
- 100%
The Noose (1928)
- Buck Gordon
The King of Kings (1927)
- The Roman Centurion
- 78%
The Son of the Shiek (1926)
- Ghabah
- 71%
Don Juan (1926)
- Count Giano Donati
Hands Up! (1926)
- Capt. Logan
Dancer's Peril (1917)
- Michael Pouloff
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