Acting · Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK · Born March 15, 1880
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).
MovieTorpedo of Doom
1966
as Col. White
MovieDevotion
1946
as Rev. Brontë
MovieWings Over the Pacific
1943
as Jim Butler
MovieThe Constant Nymph
1943
as Albert Sanger
MovieForever and a Day
1943
as Sir John Bunn
MovieTennessee Johnson
1942
as Chief Justice Chase
MovieSherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942
as General Jerome Lawford
MovieThe Remarkable Andrew
1942
as General George Washington
MovieLady for a Night
1942
as Judge
MovieShining Victory
1941
as Dr. Blake
MovieThe Devil and Miss Jones
1941
as Harrison
MovieHudson's Bay
1940
as Governor D'Argenson
MovieThe Son of Monte Cristo
1940
as Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff
MovieThe Mark of Zorro
1940
as Don Alejandro Vega
MovieNorth West Mounted Police
1940
as Inspector Cabot
MovieA Dispatch from Reuters
1940
as Delane
MovieThe Sea Hawk
1940
as King Philip II
MovieAll This, and Heaven Too
1940
as Marechal Sebastiani
MoviePrivate Affairs
1940
as Noble Bullerton
MovieDr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940
as Professor Hartmann
MovieNorthwest Passage
1940
as Wiseman Clagett
MovieThe Lone Wolf Strikes
1940
as Emil Gorlick
MovieWe Are Not Alone
1939
as Major Millman
MovieRulers of the Sea
1939
as Malcolm Grant
MovieThe Man in the Iron Mask
1939
as Spanish Ambassador
MovieJuarez
1939
as Jose de Montares
MovieSons of Liberty
1939
as George Washington
MovieGunga Din
1939
as Colonel Weed
MovieIf I Were King
1938
as General Dudon
MovieProfessor Beware
1938
as Professor Schmutz
MovieThe Fighting Devil Dogs
1938
as General White
MovieKidnapped
1938
as Colonel Whitehead
MovieThe Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
as Bishop of the Black Canons
MovieThe Buccaneer
1938
as Admiral Cockburn
MovieTovarich
1937
as M. Courtois
MovieAdventure's End
1937
as Capt. Abner Drew
MovieA Damsel in Distress
1937
as Lord Marshmorton
MovieThe Life of Emile Zola
1937
as M. Cavaignac
MovieThe Prisoner of Zenda
1937
as Detchard
MovieLondon by Night
1937
as Sir Arthur Herrick
MovieParnell
1937
as William Ewart Gladstone
MovieThe Prince and the Pauper
1937
as Henry VIII
MovieOne in a Million
1937
as Ratoffsky
MovieLloyd's of London
1936
as Hawkins
MovieReunion
1936
as Sir Basil Crawford
MovieSing, Baby, Sing
1936
as Robert Wilson
MovieThe White Angel
1936
as Mr. Bullock
MovieChampagne Charlie
1936
as Ivan Suchine
MovieFrankie and Johnnie
1936
as Colonel Brand
MovieThe Country Doctor
1936
as Sir Basil Crawford
MovieSutter's Gold
1936
as Capt. Kettleson
MovieThe Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1935
as Director
MovieHi, Gaucho!
1935
as Hillario Bolario
MovieHollywood Extra Girl
1935
as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
MovieThe Crusades
1935
as The Blacksmith
MovieClive of India
1935
as Governor Pigot
MovieLimehouse Blues
1934
as Pug Talbot
MovieMenace
1934
as Police Inspector
The Expectant Father
1934
MovieHis Double Life
1933
as Duncan Farrel
MovieAt Twelve Midnight
1933
as Captain James alias The Fox
MovieOut of Singapore
1932
as Capt. Scar Murray
MovieThe Midnight Lady
1932
as Harvey Austin
MovieThe Riding Tornado
1932
as Walt Corson
MovieThe Silver Lining
1932
as Michael Moore
MovieVanity Fair
1932
as Marquis of Steyne
MovieStowaway
1932
as Groder
MovieLove Bound
1932
as John Randolph
MovieAlexander Hamilton
1931
as Thomas Jefferson
MovieThe Lion and the Lamb
1931
as Professor Tottie
MovieThe Cat Creeps
1930
as Hendricks
MovieKismet
1930
as The Jailer
MovieReno
1930
as Alexander W. Brett
MovieOutward Bound
1930
as Mr. Lingley
MovieInside the Lines
1930
as Governor of Gibraltar
MovieBack Pay
1930
as Charles Wheeler
MovieA Notorious Affair
1930
as Sir Thomas Hanley
MovieDouble Cross Roads
1930
as Gene Dyke
MovieLove Comes Along
1930
as Sangredo
MovieThe Mysterious Island
1929
as Mikhail
MovieA Most Immoral Lady
1929
as John Williams
MovieHer Private Life
1929
as Sir Bruce Haden
MovieCharming Sinners
1929
as George Whitley
MovieMidstream
1929
as Dr. Nelson
MovieBulldog Drummond
1929
as Peterson
The Voice Within
1929
MovieSilks and Saddles
1929
as Walter Sinclair
MovieSynthetic Sin
1929
as Brandy Mulane
MovieThe Divine Lady
1928
as Capt. Hardy
MovieThe Last Warning
1928
as Arthur McHugh
MovieThe Haunted House
1928
as Mad Doctor
MovieThe Wind
1928
as Roddy
MovieThe Hawk's Nest
1928
as Dan Daugherty
MovieCharacter Studies
1928
MovieThe Devil's Skipper
1928
as First Mate
MovieThe Noose
1928
as Buck Gordon
MovieThe Haunted Ship
1927
as Captain Simon Gant
MovieGood Time Charley
1927
as John Hartwell
MovieJesse James
1927
as Frederick Mimms
MovieRose of the Golden West
1927
as Gen. Vallero
The Tender Hour
1927
as Grand Duke Sergei
MovieThe King of Kings
1927
as Roman Centurion
MovieThe Night of Love
1927
as Duke de la Garda
MovieOne Hour of Love
1927
as J.W. McKay
MovieThe Silent Lover
1926
as Ben Achmed
MovieThe Son of the Sheik
1926
as Ghabah
MovieDon Juan
1926
as Count Giano Donati
MovieThe Social Highwayman
1926
as Ducket Nelson
MovieOut of the Storm
1926
as Timothy Keith
Brooding Eyes
1926
as Pat Callaghan
MovieHands Up!
1926
as Capt. Edward Logan
The Desert's Price
1925
as Jim Martin
MovieThe Ancient Highway
1925
as Ivan Hurd
MovieThe Mad Marriage
1925
MovieSinners in Heaven
1924
as Native Chief
MovieLove of Women
1924
as Bronson Gibbs
MovieA Son of the Sahara
1924
as Sultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier
MovieWho's Cheating?
1924
as Harrison Fields
MovieWeek End Husbands
1924
as Thomas Mowry
MovieRoulette
1924
as Dan Carrington
Restless Wives
1924
as Hugo Cady
MovieThe Eternal City
1923
as Minghelli
MovieThe Leopardess
1923
as Scott Quaigg
MovieSecrets of Paris
1922
as The Schoolmaster
MovieWhat's Wrong with the Women?
1922
as Arthur Belden
MovieThe Beauty Shop
1922
as Maldonado
MovieLove's Redemption
1921
as Frederick Kent
MovieForever
1921
as Colonel Ibbetson
MovieThe Case of Becky
1921
as Prof. Balzamo
Shams of Society
1921
as Herbert Porter
MovieThe Place of Honeymoons
1920
as Edward Courtlandt
MovieThe Riddle: Woman
1920
as Larz Olrik
MovieThe World and His Wife
1920
as Don Julian
MovieMan's Plaything
1920
as Pelton Vab Teel
The Steel King
1919
as John Blake
Our Film Stars
1919
MovieA Broadway Saint
1919
as Dick Vernon
MovieThrough the Toils
1919
as Noel Graham / Lewis Moffat
MovieThree Green Eyes
1919
as Allen Granat
MovieThe Quickening Flame
1919
as John Steele
MovieThe Hand Invisible
1919
as Rodney Graham
MovieThe Rough Neck
1919
as John Masters
MovieThe Grouch
1918
as Donald Graham
MovieThe Cabaret
1918
as Jaffrey Darrel
MovieStolen Orders
1918
as John Le Page
MovieThe Cross Bearer
1918
as Cardinal Mercier
MovieBroken Ties
1918
as John Fleming
MovieThe Volunteer
1917
as Self - Cameo Appearance
MovieThe Good for Nothing
1917
MovieThe Awakening
1917
as Jacques Revilly
The Dormant Power
1917
MovieRasputin, the Black Monk
1917
as Gregory Novik / Rasputin
MovieThe Brand of Satan
1917
as Jacques Cordet
MovieYankee Pluck
1917
as Baron Wootchi
MovieForget-Me-Not
1917
as Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
MovieThe Dancer's Peril
1917
as Michael Pavloff
MovieThe Challenge
1916
as Quarrier
MovieThe Men She Married
1916
as Jerry Trainor
MovieBought and Paid For
1916
as Robert Stafford
MovieThe Scarlet Oath
1916
as Nicholas Savaroff
MovieThe Hidden Scar
1916
as Henry Dalton
MovieThe Gilded Cage
1916
as Baron Stefano
MovieFriday the 13th
1916
as Count Varneloff
MovieHusband and Wife
1916
as Patrick Alliston
MovieA Woman's Way
1916
as Oliver Whitney
MovieThe Devil's Toy
1916
as Wilfred Barsley
The Greater Will
1915
as Stuart Watson
MovieA Royal Family
1915
as Crown Prince of Kurland
MovieThe Face in the Moonlight
1915
MovieHearts in Exile
1915
MovieThe Suicide Club
1914
as Prince Florizel
