Monte Blue

Acting · 0.5 popularity

Age

139

Movies

228

Born: January 10, 1887 – February 18, 1963
From: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Monte Blue (January 11, 1887 – February 18, 1963) was a movie actor who began his career as a romantic leading man in the silent film era, and later progressed to character roles. Blue was born as Gerard Montgomery Bluefeather in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father was half French, half Cherokee Indian. One of five children, his father died and his mother could not raise five children alone. Along with another brother, they both admitted to the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home. This did not stop him working his way through to Purdue University. When growing up, Blue built up his physique to become a football player (he grew to six feet three inches tall). He not only played football, but he was also a fireman, railroad worker, coal miner, cowpuncher, ranch hand, circus rider, lumberjack, and finally, a day laborer at the studios of D. W. Griffith. He had no theatrical experience when he came to the screen. In his first movie, The Birth of a Nation (1915), he was a stuntman and an extra in the movie. In his next movie, he starred in another small part in the movie, Intolerance (1916). Gradually moving to supporting roles for both D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, Blue earned his breakthrough role as Danton in Orphans of the Storm, starring sisters, Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish. Then he rose to stardom as a rugged romantic lead along with top leading actresses such as Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, and Norma Shearer. His most prolific female screen partner was Marie Prevost with whom he made several films in the mid 20s at Warner Brothers. Blue's finest silent screen performance was as the alcoholic doctor who finds paradise in MGM's White Shadows in the South Seas (1928). Blue became one of the few silent stars to survive the talkie revolution. However, he lost his investments in the stock market crash of 1929. He rebuilt his career as a character actor, working until his retirement in 1954. One of his more memorable roles was the sheriff in Key Largo. He divorced his first wife in 1923 and married Tova Jansen in 1924. He had two children, Barbara Ann and Richard Monte. During the later part of his life, Monte Blue was an active Mason and the advance man for the Hamid-Morton Shrine Circus; while on business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he had a heart attack because of complications from influenza, dying at age 76. Monte Blue has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6286 Hollywood Blvd. Description above from the Wikipedia article Monte Blue, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

228 films

Casablanca

19438.1

Key Largo

19487.5

The Birth of a Nation

19155.9

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

19167.1

The Fountainhead

19496.8

I Married a Witch

19426.9

Dodge City

19396.9

Apache

19546.0

Juarez

19396.5

Mary of Scotland

19366.2

Union Pacific

19396.7

100% American

19187.0

Touchdown, Army

19387.5

The Show of Shows

19296.6

Broadway Rose

19229.0

Adventures of Don Juan

19486.8

Skin Deep

19293.3

'G' Men

19356.6

Action in the North Atlantic

19437.1

Ride, Vaquero!

19536.1

Life with Father

19476.7

Passage to Marseille

19446.6

The Man I Love

19466.1

No Defense

192910.0

Colorado Territory

19496.9

Johnny Belinda

19486.9

Silver River

19486.2

Possessed

19476.9

Gentleman Jim

19427.2

Buffalo Stampede

19334.1

Warpath

19516.0

Edge of Darkness

19436.3

The Mask of Dimitrios

19447.1

Across the Pacific

19426.6

Sharad of Atlantis

19364.5

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

19356.6

Hangman's Knot

19526.6

North West Mounted Police

19406.4

Humoresque

19477.0

The Unfaithful

19475.9

Born to the West

19374.8

In Mizzoura

19198.0

Montana

19505.6

Defying Destiny

19236.7

San Antonio

19456.1

Flaxy Martin

19495.6

Souls at Sea

19376.5

Northern Pursuit

19436.1

Backfire

19505.9

Road to Morocco

19426.9

Riders of Death Valley

19416.8

Cheyenne

19477.0

The Big Wheel

19495.7

Road to Singapore

19406.4

North to the Klondike

19427.1

Snake River Desperadoes

19514.9

The Horn Blows at Midnight

19455.9

The Jucklins

19218.0

The Conspirators

19446.3

South of St. Louis

19495.8

Those Who Dance

19306.2

Hell Town

1937

Thank Your Lucky Stars

19436.2

The Last Posse

19536.3

Come On, Marines!

19345.6

Geronimo

19395.3

Orphans of the Storm

19216.8

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

19405.6

Never Say Goodbye

19466.3

Mission to Moscow

19435.7

Wagon Wheels

19345.1

Rustling a Bride

19197.0

My Favorite Blonde

19426.4

Romance and Arabella

19199.0

The Hidden Hand

19426.7

Song of the Gringo

19366.0

Bitter Apples

19277.5

Pacific Blackout

19416.6

Secret Enemies

19425.8

Cinderella Jones

19463.8

The Great Man's Lady

19416.3

The Affairs of Anatol

19215.9

So You Want to Play the Horses

19466.5

Wild and Woolly

19176.3

Illegal Traffic

19386.6

The Iroquois Trail

19506.6

New York Town

19418.5

The Marriage Circle

19246.3

White Shadows in the South Seas

19286.7

Recompense

19258.0

Her Forgotten Past

19337.5

The Purple Highway

192310.0

The Hard Way

19436.4

A Million to One

19365.0

Homicide

19495.7

Sunset in Wyoming

19417.0

Ghosts

19154.5

Shadow of a Woman

19464.5

The Younger Brothers

19497.5

Two Guys from Milwaukee

19464.9

The Flood

193110.0

King of the Texas Rangers

19417.0

The Sea Hornet

19516.0

Gold Raiders

19516.6

Frontier Pony Express

19395.0

Red Hot Tires

19257.0

King of Alcatraz

19386.0

This Side of the Law

19504.8

Two Guys from Texas

19488.0

The Blonde Bandit

19496.2

Our Leading Citizen

19398.0

Student Tour

19346.7

Days of Jesse James

19395.1

The Goddess of Lost Lake

1918

The Remarkable Andrew

19427.4

On Probation

193510.0

Nevada

19354.8

Told in the Hills

19197.0

The Romance of Tarzan

19186.0

Rose of Cimarron

19525.6

Treachery Rides the Range

19364.0

Moonlight and Honeysuckle

19217.0

The Great Train Robbery

19418.3

Amateur Crook

19375.0

Three Desperate Men

19515.5

Stallion Road

19477.5

Everywoman

19198.0

The Man Upstairs

19268.0

Trails of the Wild

19358.0

Ranger of Cherokee Strip

194910.0

Revelation

19249.0

The Noon Hour

1915

The Mysterious Rider

19387.3

Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush

19547.0

Danger Signal

19456.0

Secret Agent X-9

19377.3

Isle of Escape

19306.5

Mystery Sea Raider

19406.0

Scattergood Pulls the Strings

19417.0

Tom Sawyer, Detective

19385.6

A Cumberland Romance

19208.0

Bad Man of Deadwood

19415.3

So This Is Paris

19266.3

Desert Gold

19365.7

The Last Round-up

19348.0

The Greyhound Limited

19298.0

Young Bill Hickok

19405.4

The Intruder

19334.6

The Time, The Place and The Girl

19465.7

Across the Pacific

19265.0

Main Street

19236.0

The Big Broadcast of 1938

19386.3

Cocoanut Grove

19389.0

Wolf's Clothing

192710.0

Other Women's Husbands

19268.0

Martyrs of the Alamo

19155.2

The 13th Commandment

19209.0

The Red, Red Heart

1918

Wanderer of the Wasteland

19356.0

Sky Racket

19373.9

Ride, Ranger, Ride

19365.2

Treat 'Em Rough

19428.0

Hawk of the Wilderness

19387.0

Prison Shadows

19365.3

M'Liss

19185.7

Loving Lies

19249.0

Brass

19235.0

Pettigrew's Girl

19198.0

Too Much Johnson

19199.0

The Devil's Needle

19166.4

Tiger Rose

19297.0

Rebellious Daughters

19386.0

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

19376.3

The Squaw Man

19185.8

Johanna Enlists

19186.0

The Vagabond Prince

1916

Lucretia Lombard

19237.0

Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer

19437.0

Trial by Trigger

19445.7

The Lover of Camille

192410.0

Port of Hate

19396.3

Hands Up

19187.0

Officer Thirteen

19326.6

Truck Busters

19437.0

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

19389.0

From Headquarters

19298.0

Something to Think About

19206.8

Frontier Days

19456.3

A Broken Doll

19219.0

Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm

19375.8

Klondike Fury

19425.1

The Test

19354.3

Bells of San Fernando

19474.6

The Matrimaniac

19166.5

Being Respectable

19249.0

Hogan's Alley

192510.0

A Perfect Crime

19218.0

The Limited Mail

192510.0

The Bush Leaguer

192710.0

Law of the Timber

19417.0

Brass Knuckles

192710.0

The Black Diamond Express

19279.0

The Man from Painted Post

19174.8

Mademoiselle Midnight

19245.7

Her Marriage Vow

192410.0

Betsy's Burglar

1917

Social Error

19357.5

The Dark Swan

19248.0

Conquest

19288.0

How to Educate a Wife

19249.0

Life in Hollywood No. 4

192710.0

One-Round Hogan

192710.0

Peacock Alley

192210.0

My Old Kentucky Home

19229.0

The Only Road

1918

Kiss Me Again

19257.0

The Brute

19279.0

The Stoker

19327.0

Riders of the Night

19187.0

Jim Bludso

1917

Trail of the Arrow

19529.0

So You Want to Hold Your Husband

19509.0

Till I Come Back to You

19185.7

Daughters of Pleasure

19248.0

The Kentuckians

19219.0

The Microscope Mystery

1916

Hands Up!

1917

Across the Atlantic

19289.0