Monte Blue
Acting
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.
Apache
Geronimo
Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush
Sheriff
Ride, Vaquero!
Bartender (uncredited)
The Last Posse
Uncle Will
Hangman's Knot
Maxwell
Trail of the Arrow
(archive footage)
Rose of Cimarron
Lone Eagle
Warpath
First Emigrant
The Sea Hornet
Lt. Drake
Gold Raiders
John Sawyer
Snake River Desperadoes
Jim Haverly
Three Desperate Men
Marshal Pete Coleman
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
Rice - Curry's Partner
This Side of the Law
The Sheriff
The Iroquois Trail
Chief Sagamore
Backfire
Det. Sgt. Pluther (uncredited)
The Blonde Bandit
Police Chief Ramsey
The Big Wheel
Deacon Jones
Ranger of Cherokee Strip
Chief Hunter
The Fountainhead
Gas Station Executive (uncredited)
Colorado Territory
U.S. Marshal (uncredited)
The Younger Brothers
Deputy Joe
Homicide
George, Sheriff
South of St. Louis
Capt. Jeffrey
Flaxy Martin
Joe, Detective
Adventures of Don Juan
Turnkey (uncredited)
Johnny Belinda
Ben (uncredited)
Two Guys from Texas
Pete Nash
Key Largo
Sheriff Ben Wade
Silver River
'Buck' Chevigee
Life with Father
The Policeman
The Unfaithful
Businessman with Hunter
Cheyenne
Timberline
Possessed
Norris
Stallion Road
Horse Rancher (uncredited)
Bells of San Fernando
Governor Don Sebastian Fernando
Humoresque
Moving Man (uncredited)
The Man I Love
Cop (uncredited)
The Time, The Place and The Girl
Stage Manager (uncredited)
Never Say Goodbye
Policeman (uncredited)
So You Want to Play the Horses
The Colonel (uncredited)
Shadow of a Woman
Mike, Police Lieutenant
Two Guys from Milwaukee
Broadcast Director (uncredited)
Cinderella Jones
Jailer
San Antonio
Cleve Andrews
Frontier Days
Ned-U.S. Marshal
Danger Signal
Policeman in Car
The Horn Blows at Midnight
The Chef (uncredited)
The Mask of Dimitrios
Abdul Dhris
Trial by Trigger
Brewster (uncredited)
Northern Pursuit
Jean
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Bartender in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
Action in the North Atlantic
Seaman (uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
Heckler (uncredited)
Edge of Darkness
Jens Petersen
Truck Busters
Scrappy O'Brien
Casablanca
American (uncredited)
The Hard Way
Man in Audience (Uncredited)
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Bit Role
Gentleman Jim
Gambler in "Lucky Guy"
Road to Morocco
Kasim's Aide (uncredited)
The Hidden Hand
Matthews, the undertaker (uncredited)
I Married a Witch
Doorman (uncredited)
Secret Enemies
Hugo Mehl
Across the Pacific
Dan Morton
My Favorite Blonde
Policeman at Union Hall (uncredited)
Klondike Fury
Flight Dispatcher
The Remarkable Andrew
Policeman
Treat 'Em Rough
Police Captain
North to the Klondike
John Burke
Pacific Blackout
Colonel
Law of the Timber
Hodge Mason
New York Town
McAuliffe (uncredited)
The Great Man's Lady
Man #2, Hoyt City
King of the Texas Rangers
Capt. Tom King Sr.
Bad Man of Deadwood
Sheriff Jordan
Sunset in Wyoming
Jim Hayes
Riders of Death Valley
Rance Davis
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Ben Mott
The Great Train Robbery
The Super
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Pablo Slide Along
Mystery Sea Raider
Captain Norberg
North West Mounted Police
Indian
Young Bill Hickok
Marshal Evans
Road to Singapore
High Priest (uncredited)
Days of Jesse James
Train Passenger
Geronimo
Interpreter
Our Leading Citizen
Frank
Port of Hate
Hammond
Juarez
Lerdo de Tajada
Union Pacific
Indian (uncredited)
Frontier Pony Express
Cherokee
Dodge City
Barlow
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Sheriff Walker
Hawk of the Wilderness
Yellow Weasel
Illegal Traffic
Captain Moran
King of Alcatraz
Officer
The Mysterious Rider
Cap Folsom
Touchdown, Army
Pilot (uncredited)
Rebellious Daughters
Charlie, alias Clint Houston
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Mr. Cameron
Cocoanut Grove
Undetermined Role
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Passenger (uncredited)
Hell Town
Bart Hammond
Amateur Crook
Crone
Born to the West
Bart Hammond
Sky Racket
Benjamin Arnold
Souls at Sea
Mate
Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
Joe Stafford
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Indian Jim
Secret Agent X-9
Baron Michael Karsten
A Million to One
John Kent Sr.
Ride, Ranger, Ride
Duval, aka Chief Tavibo
Song of the Gringo
Sheriff
Mary of Scotland
Messenger
Prison Shadows
Bert McNamee
Sharad of Atlantis
Unga Khan
Treachery Rides the Range
Colonel Drummond
Desert Gold
Chetley 'Chet' Kasedon
Nevada
Clem Dillon
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Guerd Larey
Trails of the Wild
RCMP Larry Doyle
The Test
Pepite La Joie
'G' Men
Fingerprint Expert
Social Error
Dean Carter
On Probation
Al Murray
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Hamzulla Khan
Student Tour
Jeff Kane
Wagon Wheels
Kenneth Murdock
The Last Round-up
Jack Kells
Come On, Marines!
Lt. Allen
Her Forgotten Past
Donald Thorne
The Intruder
John Brandt
Buffalo Stampede
Smiley
Officer Thirteen
Tom Burke
The Stoker
Dick Martin
The Flood
David Bruce
Those Who Dance
Dan Hogan
Isle of Escape
Dave Wade
Tiger Rose
Devlin
The Show of Shows
Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Skin Deep
Joe Daley
From Headquarters
Happy Smith
No Defense
Monte Collins
The Greyhound Limited
Monte
Conquest
Donald Overton
White Shadows in the South Seas
Dr. Matthew Lloyd
Across the Atlantic
Hugh Clayton
Brass Knuckles
Zac Harrison
One-Round Hogan
Robert Emmet Hogan
Life in Hollywood No. 4
The Bush Leaguer
Buchanan 'Specs' White
The Black Diamond Express
Dan Foster
Bitter Apples
John Wyncote
The Brute
Martin 'Easy-Going' Sondes
Wolf's Clothing
Barry Baline
Across the Pacific
Monte
So This Is Paris
Dr. Paul Giraud
Other Women's Husbands
Dick Lambert
The Man Upstairs
Geoffrey West
Hogan's Alley
Lefty O'Brien
Red Hot Tires
Al Jones
The Limited Mail
Bob Wilson / Bob Snobson
Kiss Me Again
Gaston Fleury
Recompense
Peter Graham
The Dark Swan
Lewis Dike
The Lover of Camille
Jean Gaspard Deburau
Her Marriage Vow
Bob Hilton
Being Respectable
Charles Carpenter
Revelation
Paul Granville
Daughters of Pleasure
Kent Merrill
How to Educate a Wife
Ernest Todd
Mademoiselle Midnight
Owen Burke / Jerry Brent
The Marriage Circle
Dr. Franz Braun
Loving Lies
Captain Dan stover
Lucretia Lombard
Stephen Winship
Defying Destiny
Jack Fenton
The Purple Highway
Edgar Prentice, aka Edgar Craig
Main Street
Dr. Will Kennicott
Brass
Philip Baldwin
Broadway Rose
Tom Darcy
My Old Kentucky Home
Richard Goodloe
Peacock Alley
Elmer Harmon
Orphans of the Storm
Danton
The Affairs of Anatol
Abner Elliott
Moonlight and Honeysuckle
Ted Musgrove
A Broken Doll
Tommy Dawes
A Perfect Crime
Wally Griggs
The Kentuckians
Boone Stallard
The Jucklins
Bill Hawes
Something to Think About
Jim Dirk
A Cumberland Romance
Sherd Raines
The 13th Commandment
Bayard Kip
Everywoman
Love
Too Much Johnson
Billy Lounsberry
In Mizzoura
Sam Fowler
Told in the Hills
Kalitan
Rustling a Bride
Nick McCredie
Pettigrew's Girl
Pvt. William Pettigrew
Romance and Arabella
Harry Atteridge
The Squaw Man
Happy
The Romance of Tarzan
Juan
Riders of the Night
'The Killer' Jed
The Goddess of Lost Lake
(uncredited)
100% American
Mayme's Army boyfriend
Johanna Enlists
Pvt. Vibbard
Till I Come Back to You
American Doughboy
Hands Up
The Only Road
Pedro Lupo
M'Liss
Mexican Joe Dominguez
The Red, Red Heart
Billy Porter
The Man from Painted Post
Slim Carter
Wild and Woolly
One of Wild Bill's Men (Uncredited)
Hands Up!
Dan Tracy
Betsy's Burglar
Victor Gilpin
Jim Bludso
Joe Bowers
The Matrimaniac
Assistant Hotel Manager (uncredited)
The Microscope Mystery
Jud
The Vagabond Prince
Peasant
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Strike Leader
The Devil's Needle
Bartender (uncredited)
Martyrs of the Alamo
Defender of the Alamo
The Noon Hour
Ada's Brother
Ghosts
Bohemian
The Birth of a Nation
(uncredited)