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).

Filmography

• 1966Torpedo of Doom — Col. White
• 1946Devotion — Rev. Brontë
• 1943Forever and a Day — Sir John Bunn
• 1943The Constant Nymph — Albert Sanger
• 1943Wings Over the Pacific — Jim Butler
• 1942Lady for a Night — Judge
• 1942Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror — General Jerome Lawford
• 1942Tennessee Johnson — Chief Justice Chase
• 1942The Remarkable Andrew — General George Washington
• 1941Shining Victory — Dr. Blake
• 1941The Devil and Miss Jones — Harrison
• 1940A Dispatch from Reuters — Delane
• 1940All This, and Heaven Too — Marechal Sebastiani
• 1940Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet — Professor Hartmann
• 1940Hudson's Bay — Governor D'Argenson
• 1940North West Mounted Police — Inspector Cabot
• 1940Northwest Passage — Wiseman Clagett
• 1940Private Affairs — Noble Bullerton
• 1940The Lone Wolf Strikes — Emil Gorlick
• 1940The Mark of Zorro — Don Alejandro Vega
• 1940The Sea Hawk — King Philip II
• 1940The Son of Monte Cristo — Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff
• 1939Gunga Din — Colonel Weed
• 1939Juarez — Jose de Montares
• 1939Rulers of the Sea — Malcolm Grant
• 1939Sons of Liberty — George Washington
• 1939The Man in the Iron Mask — Spanish Ambassador
• 1939We Are Not Alone — Major Millman
• 1938If I Were King — General Dudon
• 1938Kidnapped — Colonel Whitehead
• 1938Professor Beware — Professor Schmutz
• 1938The Adventures of Robin Hood — Bishop of the Black Canons
• 1938The Buccaneer — Admiral Cockburn
• 1938The Fighting Devil Dogs — General White
• 1937A Damsel in Distress — Lord Marshmorton
• 1937Adventure's End — Capt. Abner Drew
• 1937London by Night — Sir Arthur Herrick
• 1937One in a Million — Ratoffsky
• 1937Parnell — William Ewart Gladstone
• 1937The Life of Emile Zola — M. Cavaignac
• 1937The Prince and the Pauper — Henry VIII
• 1937The Prisoner of Zenda — Detchard
• 1937Tovarich — M. Courtois
• 1936Champagne Charlie — Ivan Suchine
• 1936Frankie and Johnnie — Colonel Brand
• 1936Lloyd's of London — Hawkins
• 1936Reunion — Sir Basil Crawford
• 1936Sing, Baby, Sing — Robert Wilson
• 1936Sutter's Gold — Capt. Kettleson
• 1936The Country Doctor — Sir Basil Crawford
• 1936The White Angel — Mr. Bullock
• 1935Clive of India — Governor Pigot
• 1935Hi, Gaucho! — Hillario Bolario
• 1935Hollywood Extra Girl — Crusades Actor (uncredited)
• 1935The Crusades — The Blacksmith
• 1935The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo — Director
• 1934Limehouse Blues — Pug Talbot
• 1934Menace — Police Inspector
• 1934The Expectant Father
• 1933At Twelve Midnight — Captain James alias The Fox
• 1933His Double Life — Duncan Farrel
• 1932Love Bound — John Randolph
• 1932Out of Singapore — Capt. Scar Murray
• 1932Stowaway — Groder
• 1932The Midnight Lady — Harvey Austin
• 1932The Riding Tornado — Walt Corson
• 1932The Silver Lining — Michael Moore
• 1932Vanity Fair — Marquis of Steyne
• 1931Alexander Hamilton — Thomas Jefferson
• 1931The Lion and the Lamb — Professor Tottie
• 1930A Notorious Affair — Sir Thomas Hanley
• 1930Back Pay — Charles Wheeler
• 1930Double Cross Roads — Gene Dyke
• 1930Inside the Lines — Governor of Gibraltar
• 1930Kismet — The Jailer
• 1930Love Comes Along — Sangredo
• 1930Outward Bound — Mr. Lingley
• 1930Reno — Alexander W. Brett
• 1930The Cat Creeps — Hendricks
• 1929A Most Immoral Lady — John Williams
• 1929Bulldog Drummond — Peterson
• 1929Charming Sinners — George Whitley
• 1929Her Private Life — Sir Bruce Haden
• 1929Midstream — Dr. Nelson
• 1929Silks and Saddles — Walter Sinclair
• 1929Synthetic Sin — Brandy Mulane
• 1929The Mysterious Island — Falon, Mikhail
• 1929The Voice Within
• 1928Character Studies
• 1928The Devil's Skipper — First Mate
• 1928The Divine Lady — Capt. Hardy
• 1928The Haunted House — Mad Doctor
• 1928The Hawk's Nest — Dan Daugherty
• 1928The Last Warning — Arthur McHugh
• 1928The Noose — Buck Gordon
• 1928The Wind — Roddy
• 1927Good Time Charley — John Hartwell
• 1927Jesse James — Frederick Mimms
• 1927One Hour of Love — J.W. McKay
• 1927Rose of the Golden West — Gen. Vallero
• 1927The Haunted Ship — Captain Simon Gant
• 1927The King of Kings — Roman Centurion
• 1927The Night of Love — Duke de la Garda
• 1927The Tender Hour — Grand Duke Sergei
• 1926Brooding Eyes — Pat Callaghan
• 1926Don Juan — Count Giano Donati
• 1926Hands Up! — Capt. Edward Logan
• 1926Out of the Storm — Timothy Keith
• 1926The Silent Lover — Ben Achmed
• 1926The Social Highwayman — Ducket Nelson
• 1926The Son of the Sheik — Ghabah
• 1925The Ancient Highway — Ivan Hurd
• 1925The Desert's Price — Jim Martin
• 1925The Mad Marriage
• 1924A Son of the Sahara — Sultan Cassim Ammeh / Colonel Barbier
• 1924Love of Women — Bronson Gibbs
• 1924Restless Wives — Hugo Cady
• 1924Roulette — Dan Carrington
• 1924Sinners in Heaven — Native Chief
• 1924Week End Husbands — Thomas Mowry
• 1924Who's Cheating? — Harrison Fields
• 1923The Eternal City — Minghelli
• 1923The Leopardess — Scott Quaigg
• 1922Secrets of Paris — The Schoolmaster
• 1922The Beauty Shop — Maldonado
• 1922What's Wrong with the Women? — Arthur Belden
• 1921Forever — Colonel Ibbetson
• 1921Love's Redemption — Frederick Kent
• 1921Shams of Society — Herbert Porter
• 1921The Case of Becky — Prof. Balzamo
• 1920Man's Plaything — Pelton Vab Teel
• 1920The Place of Honeymoons — Edward Courtlandt
• 1920The Riddle: Woman — Larz Olrik
• 1920The World and His Wife — Don Julian
• 1919A Broadway Saint — Dick Vernon
• 1919Our Film Stars
• 1919The Hand Invisible — Rodney Graham
• 1919The Quickening Flame — John Steele
• 1919The Rough Neck — John Masters
• 1919The Steel King — John Blake
• 1919Three Green Eyes — Allen Granat
• 1919Through the Toils — Noel Graham / Lewis Moffat
• 1918Broken Ties — John Fleming
• 1918Stolen Orders — John Le Page
• 1918The Cabaret — Jaffrey Darrel
• 1918The Cross Bearer — Cardinal Mercier
• 1918The Grouch — Donald Graham
• 1917Forget-Me-Not — Gabriel Barrato / Benedetto Barrato
• 1917Rasputin, the Black Monk — Gregory Novik / Rasputin
• 1917The Awakening — Jacques Revilly
• 1917The Brand of Satan — Jacques Cordet
• 1917The Dancer's Peril — Michael Pavloff
• 1917The Dormant Power
• 1917The Good for Nothing
• 1917Yankee Pluck — Baron Wootchi
• 1916A Woman's Way — Oliver Whitney
• 1916Bought and Paid For — Robert Stafford
• 1916Friday the 13th — Count Varneloff
• 1916Husband and Wife — Patrick Alliston
• 1916The Challenge — Quarrier
• 1916The Devil's Toy — Wilfred Barsley
• 1916The Gilded Cage — Baron Stefano
• 1916The Hidden Scar — Henry Dalton
• 1916The Men She Married — Jerry Trainor
• 1916The Scarlet Oath — Nicholas Savaroff
• 1915A Royal Family — Crown Prince of Kurland
• 1915Hearts in Exile
• 1915The Face in the Moonlight
• 1915The Greater Will — Stuart Watson
• 1914The Suicide Club — Prince Florizel

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1917The Volunteer — Self - Cameo Appearance