
Acting
Born March 15, 1880 · Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
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).

Torpedo of Doom
1966

Devotion
1946

Wings Over the Pacific
1943

The Constant Nymph
1943

Forever and a Day
1943

Tennessee Johnson
1942

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942

The Remarkable Andrew
1942

Lady for a Night
1942

Shining Victory
1941

The Devil and Miss Jones
1941

Hudson's Bay
1940

The Son of Monte Cristo
1940

The Mark of Zorro
1940

North West Mounted Police
1940

A Dispatch from Reuters
1940

The Sea Hawk
1940

All This, and Heaven Too
1940

Private Affairs
1940

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940

Northwest Passage
1940

The Lone Wolf Strikes
1940

We Are Not Alone
1939

Rulers of the Sea
1939

The Man in the Iron Mask
1939

Juarez
1939

Sons of Liberty
1939

Gunga Din
1939

If I Were King
1938

Professor Beware
1938

The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938