Montagu Love

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Montagu Love
Born	15 March 1877 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England  United Kingdom
Died	17 May 1943

Montagu Love, also known as Montague Love (15 March 1877 - 17 May 1943) was an English screen, stage and vaudeville actor.

Born 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, the silent film version of Peter IbbetsonLove 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, as well as the loving but disapproving Don Alejandro de la Vega , Tyrone Power's disapproving father, in the 1940 version of The Mark of Zorro. 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.

[edit] External links

• Montagu Love at the Internet Movie Database
• Silent Ladies & Gents

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NAME	Love, Montagu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	15 March 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Portsmouth, Hampshire, England  United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH	17 May 1943
PLACE OF DEATH