Monte Blue
Age: 76 | From: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1887-01-11 07:47:02
Death: 1963-02-18 07:47:02
Aliases: G.M. Blue
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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Movie Involvements: 155
TV Involvements: 2
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
The Lone Ranger
(1949) Sheriff Stanton
This Is Your Life
(1952) Self
Casablanca
(1943) American (uncredited)
Key Largo
(1948) Sheriff Ben Wade
Dodge City
(1939) Barlow
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
(1916) The Strike Leader
Apache
(1954) Geronimo
The Fountainhead
(1949) Gas Station Executive (uncredited)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | N/A | |
| 1957 | N/A | |
| 1956 | N/A | |
| 1955 | N/A | |
| 1954 | N/A | |
| Geronimo | ||
| Sheriff | ||
| 1953 | Uncle Will | |
| 1952 | Maxwell | |
| (archive footage) | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Lone Eagle | ||
| 1951 | First Emigrant | |
| Lt. Drake | ||
| John Sawyer | ||
| Jim Haverly | ||
| N/A | ||
| Marshal Pete Coleman | ||
| 1950 | Rice - Curry's Partner | |
| The Sheriff | ||
| Chief Sagamore | ||
| Det. Sgt. Pluther (uncredited) | ||
| 1949 | Police Chief Ramsey | |
| Chief Hunter | ||
| Deacon Jones | ||
| Sheriff Stanton | ||
| Gas Station Executive (uncredited) | ||
| US Marshal (uncredited) | ||
| Deputy Joe | ||
| George, Sheriff | ||
| Capt. Jeffrey | ||
| Joe, Detective | ||
| 1948 | Ben (uncredited) | |
| Pete Nash | ||
| Sheriff Ben Wade | ||
| 'Buck' Chevigee | ||
| 1947 | The Policeman | |
| Businessman with Hunter | ||
| Timberline | ||
| Norris - lake house caretaker | ||
| Horse Rancher (uncredited) | ||
| Governor Don Sebastian Fernando | ||
| Moving Man (uncredited) | ||
| 1946 | Stage Manager (uncredited) | |
| Policeman (uncredited) | ||
| The Colonel (uncredited) | ||
| Mike, Police Lieutenant | ||
| Broadcast Director (uncredited) | ||
| Jailer | ||
| 1945 | Cleve Andrews | |
| Ned-U.S. Marshal | ||
| Policeman in Car | ||
| The Chef (uncredited) | ||
| 1944 | Abdul Dhris | |
| Brewster (uncredited) | ||
| 1943 | Jean | |
| Seaman (uncredited) | ||
| Heckler (uncredited) | ||
| Jens Petersen | ||
| Scrappy O'Brien | ||
| American (uncredited) | ||
| Man in Audience (Uncredited) | ||
| Bit Role | ||
| 1942 | Gambler in "Lucky Guy" | |
| Kasim's Aide (uncredited) | ||
| Matthews, the undertaker (uncredited) | ||
| Doorman (uncredited) | ||
| Hugo Mehl | ||
| Dan Morton | ||
| Man #2, Hoyt City | ||
| Policeman at Union Hall (uncredited) | ||
| Flight Dispatcher | ||
| Policeman | ||
| John Burke | ||
| 1941 | Colonel | |
| Hodge Mason | ||
| McAuliffe (uncredited) | ||
| Capt. Tom King Sr. | ||
| Sheriff Jordan | ||
| Jim Hayes | ||
| Rance Davis | ||
| Ben Mott | ||
| The Super | ||
| 1940 | Pablo Slide Along | |
| Captain Norberg | ||
| Indian | ||
| Marshal Evans | ||
| High Priest (uncredited) | ||
| 1939 | Train Passenger | |
| Interpreter | ||
| Frank | ||
| Hammond | ||
| Lerdo de Tajada | ||
| Indian (uncredited) | ||
| Cherokee | ||
| Barlow | ||
| 1938 | Sheriff Walker | |
| Yellow Weasel | ||
| Captain Moran | ||
| Officer | ||
| Cap Folsom | ||
| Pilot (uncredited) | ||
| Charlie, alias Clint Houston | ||
| Mr. Cameron | ||
| Undetermined Role | ||
| Passenger (uncredited) | ||
| 1937 | Bart Hammond | |
| Crone | ||
| Benjamin Arnold | ||
| Mate | ||
| Joe Stafford | ||
| Indian Jim | ||
| Baron Michael Karsten | ||
| 1936 | John Kent Sr. | |
| Duval, aka Chief Tavibo | ||
| Sheriff | ||
| Messenger | ||
| Bert McNamee | ||
| Unga Khan | ||
| Colonel Drummond | ||
| Chetley 'Chet' Kasedon | ||
| 1935 | Clem Dillon | |
| Guerd Larey | ||
| RCMP Larry Doyle | ||
| Pepite La Joie | ||
| Fingerprint Expert | ||
| Dean Carter | ||
| Al Murray | ||
| Hamzulla Khan | ||
| 1934 | Jeff Kane | |
| Kenneth Murdock | ||
| Jack Kells | ||
| Lt. Allen | ||
| 1933 | Donald Thorne | |
| John Brandt | ||
| Smiley | ||
| 1932 | Tom Burke | |
| Dick Martin | ||
| 1930 | Dan Hogan | |
| Dave Wade | ||
| 1929 | Devlin | |
| Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited) | ||
| Happy Smith | ||
| Monte Collins | ||
| Monte | ||
| 1928 | Donald Overton | |
| Dr. Matthew Lloyd | ||
| Hugh Clayton | ||
| 1927 | N/A | |
| Dan Foster | ||
| John Wyncote | ||
| 1926 | Monte | |
| Dr. Paul Giraud | ||
| Dick Lambert | ||
| Geoffrey West | ||
| 1925 | Lefty O'Brien | |
| Al Jones | ||
| Bob Wilson / Bob Snobson | ||
| Gaston Fleury | ||
| Peter Graham | ||
| 1924 | Lewis Dike | |
| Jean Gaspard Deburau | ||
| Charles Carpenter | ||
| Paul Granville | ||
| Kent Merrill | ||
| Ernest Todd | ||
| Owen Burke / Jerry Brent | ||
| Dr. Franz Braun | ||
| Captain Dan stover | ||
| 1923 | Stephen Winship | |
| Jack Fenton | ||
| Edgar Prentice, aka Edgar Craig | ||
| Dr. Will Kennicott | ||
| Philip Baldwin | ||
| 1922 | Tom Darcy | |
| Richard Goodloe | ||
| Elmer Harmon | ||
| 1921 | Danton | |
| Abner Elliott | ||
| Ted Musgrove | ||
| Tommy Dawes | ||
| Wally Griggs | ||
| 1920 | Jim Dirk | |
| N/A | ||
| 1919 | Love | |
| Billy Lounsberry | ||
| Harry Atteridge | ||
| 1918 | Happy | |
| Juan | ||
| 'The Killer' Jed | ||
| (uncredited) | ||
| Mayme's Army boyfriend | ||
| Pvt. Vibbard | ||
| American Doughboy | ||
| N/A | ||
| Pedro Lupo | ||
| Mexican Joe Dominguez | ||
| 1917 | Slim Carter | |
| One of Wild Bill's Men (Uncredited) | ||
| Dan Tracy | ||
| Victor Gilpin | ||
| Joe Bowers | ||
| 1916 | Assistant Hotel Manager (uncredited) | |
| Jud | ||
| Peasant | ||
| The Strike Leader | ||
| Bartender (uncredited) | ||
| 1915 | Defender of the Alamo | |
| Bohemian | ||
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1916 | Second Assistant Director | |
| 1915 | Assistant Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1915 | Stunts | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |