Montagu Love

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 roadcompany production of Cyril Maudes 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 1928s 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 Loves first sound films was the parttalkie The Mysterious Island costarring Lionel Barrymore In 1937 he played Henry VIII in the first talking film version of Mark Twains 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 1939s Gunga Din it is Montagu Love who reads the final stanza of Rudyard Kiplings original poem over the body of the slain Din Loves 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