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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Apache
Character:Geronimo
Release Date:09/07/1954
Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush
Character:Sheriff
Release Date:01/01/1954
Ride, Vaquero!
Character:Bartender (uncredited)
Release Date:17/07/1953
The Last Posse
Character:Uncle Will
Release Date:04/07/1953
Hangman's Knot
Character:Maxwell
Release Date:15/11/1952
Trail of the Arrow
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:02/11/1952
Rose of Cimarron
Character:Lone Eagle
Release Date:28/01/1952
Warpath
Character:First Emigrant
Release Date:22/11/1951
The Sea Hornet
Character:Lt. Drake
Release Date:06/11/1951
Gold Raiders
Character:John Sawyer
Release Date:09/09/1951
Snake River Desperadoes
Character:Jim Haverly
Release Date:30/05/1951
Three Desperate Men
Character:Marshal Pete Coleman
Release Date:12/01/1951
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
Character:Rice - Curry's Partner
Release Date:01/07/1950
This Side of the Law
Character:The Sheriff
Release Date:17/06/1950
The Iroquois Trail
Character:Chief Sagamore
Release Date:15/06/1950
Backfire
Character:Det. Sgt. Pluther (uncredited)
Release Date:26/01/1950
The Blonde Bandit
Character:Police Chief Ramsey
Release Date:22/12/1949
Ranger of Cherokee Strip
Character:Chief Hunter
Release Date:04/11/1949
The Big Wheel
Character:Deacon Jones
Release Date:04/11/1949
The Fountainhead
Character:Gas Station Executive (uncredited)
Release Date:25/06/1949
Colorado Territory
Character:U.S. Marshal (uncredited)
Release Date:11/06/1949
The Younger Brothers
Character:Deputy Joe
Release Date:03/05/1949
Homicide
Character:George, Sheriff
Release Date:02/04/1949
South of St. Louis
Character:Capt. Jeffrey
Release Date:06/03/1949
Flaxy Martin
Character:Joe, Detective
Release Date:15/02/1949
Adventures of Don Juan
Character:Turnkey (uncredited)
Release Date:24/12/1948
Johnny Belinda
Character:Ben (uncredited)
Release Date:14/09/1948
Two Guys from Texas
Character:Pete Nash
Release Date:27/08/1948
Key Largo
Character:Sheriff Ben Wade
Release Date:16/07/1948
Silver River
Character:'Buck' Chevigee
Release Date:20/05/1948
Life with Father
Character:The Policeman
Release Date:13/09/1947
The Unfaithful
Character:Businessman with Hunter
Release Date:01/07/1947
Cheyenne
Character:Timberline
Release Date:06/06/1947
Possessed
Character:Norris
Release Date:29/05/1947
Stallion Road
Character:Horse Rancher (uncredited)
Release Date:12/04/1947
Bells of San Fernando
Character:Governor Don Sebastian Fernando
Release Date:01/03/1947
Humoresque
Character:Moving Man (uncredited)
Release Date:25/01/1947
The Time, The Place and The Girl
Character:Stage Manager (uncredited)
Release Date:26/12/1946
The Man I Love
Character:Cop (uncredited)
Release Date:26/12/1946
Never Say Goodbye
Character:Policeman (uncredited)
Release Date:09/11/1946
So You Want to Play the Horses
Character:The Colonel (uncredited)
Release Date:05/10/1946
Shadow of a Woman
Character:Mike, Police Lieutenant
Release Date:14/09/1946
Two Guys from Milwaukee
Character:Broadcast Director (uncredited)
Release Date:26/07/1946
Cinderella Jones
Character:Jailer
Release Date:09/03/1946
San Antonio
Character:Cleve Andrews
Release Date:29/12/1945
Frontier Days
Character:Ned-U.S. Marshal
Release Date:08/12/1945
Danger Signal
Character:Policeman in Car
Release Date:21/11/1945
The Horn Blows at Midnight
Character:The Chef (uncredited)
Release Date:28/04/1945
The Mask of Dimitrios
Character:Abdul Dhris
Release Date:23/06/1944
Trial by Trigger
Character:Brewster (uncredited)
Release Date:27/05/1944
Northern Pursuit
Character:Jean
Release Date:07/11/1943
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Character:Bartender in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
Release Date:25/09/1943
Action in the North Atlantic
Character:Seaman (uncredited)
Release Date:12/06/1943
Mission to Moscow
Character:Heckler (uncredited)
Release Date:29/04/1943
Edge of Darkness
Character:Jens Petersen
Release Date:09/04/1943
Truck Busters
Character:Scrappy O'Brien
Release Date:28/01/1943
Casablanca
Character:American (uncredited)
Release Date:15/01/1943
The Hard Way
Character:Man in Audience (Uncredited)
Release Date:13/01/1943
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Character:Bit Role
Release Date:02/01/1943
Gentleman Jim
Character:Gambler in "Lucky Guy"
Release Date:14/11/1942
Road to Morocco
Character:Kasim's Aide (uncredited)
Release Date:10/11/1942
The Hidden Hand
Character:Matthews, the undertaker (uncredited)
Release Date:07/11/1942
I Married a Witch
Character:Doorman (uncredited)
Release Date:30/10/1942
Secret Enemies
Character:Hugo Mehl
Release Date:17/09/1942
Across the Pacific
Character:Dan Morton
Release Date:04/09/1942
My Favorite Blonde
Character:Policeman at Union Hall (uncredited)
Release Date:02/04/1942
Klondike Fury
Character:Flight Dispatcher
Release Date:20/03/1942
The Remarkable Andrew
Character:Policeman
Release Date:05/03/1942
North to the Klondike
Character:John Burke
Release Date:23/01/1942
Pacific Blackout
Character:Colonel
Release Date:31/12/1941
Law of the Timber
Character:Hodge Mason
Release Date:19/12/1941
The Great Man's Lady
Character:Man #2, Hoyt City
Release Date:31/10/1941
New York Town
Character:McAuliffe (uncredited)
Release Date:31/10/1941
King of the Texas Rangers
Character:Capt. Tom King Sr.
Release Date:03/10/1941
Bad Man of Deadwood
Character:Sheriff Jordan
Release Date:05/09/1941
Sunset in Wyoming
Character:Jim Hayes
Release Date:15/07/1941
Riders of Death Valley
Character:Rance Davis
Release Date:01/07/1941
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Character:Ben Mott
Release Date:23/05/1941
The Great Train Robbery
Character:The Super
Release Date:28/02/1941
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Character:Pablo Slide Along
Release Date:13/12/1940
Mystery Sea Raider
Character:Captain Norberg
Release Date:26/10/1940
North West Mounted Police
Character:Indian
Release Date:22/10/1940
Young Bill Hickok
Character:Marshal Evans
Release Date:21/10/1940
Road to Singapore
Character:High Priest (uncredited)
Release Date:22/03/1940
Days of Jesse James
Character:Train Passenger
Release Date:20/12/1939
Geronimo
Character:Interpreter
Release Date:26/11/1939
Our Leading Citizen
Character:Frank
Release Date:23/08/1939
Port of Hate
Character:Hammond
Release Date:21/08/1939
Juarez
Character:Lerdo de Tajada
Release Date:10/06/1939
Union Pacific
Character:Indian (uncredited)
Release Date:05/05/1939
Frontier Pony Express
Character:Cherokee
Release Date:11/04/1939
Dodge City
Character:Barlow
Release Date:08/04/1939
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Character:Sheriff Walker
Release Date:24/12/1938
Hawk of the Wilderness
Character:Yellow Weasel
Release Date:03/12/1938
Illegal Traffic
Character:Captain Moran
Release Date:02/11/1938
King of Alcatraz
Character:Officer
Release Date:30/09/1938
The Mysterious Rider
Character:Cap Folsom
Release Date:21/09/1938
Touchdown, Army
Character:Pilot (uncredited)
Release Date:04/08/1938
Rebellious Daughters
Character:Charlie, alias Clint Houston
Release Date:01/07/1938
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Character:Mr. Cameron
Release Date:30/06/1938
Cocoanut Grove
Character:Undetermined Role
Release Date:20/05/1938
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Character:Passenger (uncredited)
Release Date:11/02/1938
Born to the West
Character:Bart Hammond
Release Date:10/12/1937
Amateur Crook
Character:Crone
Release Date:10/12/1937
Sky Racket
Character:Benjamin Arnold
Release Date:01/10/1937
Souls at Sea
Character:Mate
Release Date:03/09/1937
Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
Character:Joe Stafford
Release Date:12/05/1937
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Character:Indian Jim
Release Date:16/04/1937
Secret Agent X-9
Character:Baron Michael Karsten
Release Date:12/04/1937
A Million to One
Character:John Kent Sr.
Release Date:31/12/1936
Ride, Ranger, Ride
Character:Duval, aka Chief Tavibo
Release Date:30/11/1936
Song of the Gringo
Character:Sheriff
Release Date:22/11/1936
Mary of Scotland
Character:Messenger
Release Date:28/07/1936
Prison Shadows
Character:Bert McNamee
Release Date:17/07/1936
Sharad of Atlantis
Character:Unga Khan
Release Date:30/05/1936
Treachery Rides the Range
Character:Colonel Drummond
Release Date:02/05/1936
Desert Gold
Character:Chetley 'Chet' Kasedon
Release Date:26/03/1936
Nevada
Character:Clem Dillon
Release Date:29/11/1935
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Character:Guerd Larey
Release Date:09/09/1935
Trails of the Wild
Character:RCMP Larry Doyle
Release Date:31/07/1935
The Test
Character:Pepite La Joie
Release Date:10/05/1935
'G' Men
Character:Fingerprint Expert
Release Date:04/05/1935
Social Error
Character:Dean Carter
Release Date:30/04/1935
On Probation
Character:Al Murray
Release Date:01/04/1935
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Character:Hamzulla Khan
Release Date:11/01/1935
Student Tour
Character:Jeff Kane
Release Date:05/10/1934
Wagon Wheels
Character:Kenneth Murdock
Release Date:15/09/1934
The Last Round-up
Character:Jack Kells
Release Date:01/05/1934
Come On, Marines!
Character:Lt. Allen
Release Date:23/03/1934
Her Forgotten Past
Character:Donald Thorne
Release Date:01/09/1933
The Intruder
Character:John Brandt
Release Date:13/03/1933
Buffalo Stampede
Character:Smiley
Release Date:01/03/1933
Officer Thirteen
Character:Tom Burke
Release Date:26/11/1932
The Stoker
Character:Dick Martin
Release Date:15/06/1932
The Flood
Character:David Bruce
Release Date:28/02/1931
Those Who Dance
Character:Dan Hogan
Release Date:18/04/1930
Isle of Escape
Character:Dave Wade
Release Date:01/03/1930
Tiger Rose
Character:Devlin
Release Date:21/12/1929
The Show of Shows
Character:Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Release Date:21/11/1929
Skin Deep
Character:Joe Daley
Release Date:07/09/1929
From Headquarters
Character:Happy Smith
Release Date:27/04/1929
No Defense
Character:Monte Collins
Release Date:05/04/1929
The Greyhound Limited
Character:Monte
Release Date:09/02/1929
Conquest
Character:Donald Overton
Release Date:22/12/1928
White Shadows in the South Seas
Character:Dr. Matthew Lloyd
Release Date:11/11/1928
Across the Atlantic
Character:Hugh Clayton
Release Date:18/01/1928
Brass Knuckles
Character:Zac Harrison
Release Date:03/12/1927
One-Round Hogan
Character:Robert Emmet Hogan
Release Date:17/09/1927
Life in Hollywood No. 4
Character:
Release Date:25/08/1927
The Bush Leaguer
Character:Buchanan 'Specs' White
Release Date:20/08/1927
The Black Diamond Express
Character:Dan Foster
Release Date:04/06/1927
Bitter Apples
Character:John Wyncote
Release Date:23/04/1927
The Brute
Character:Martin 'Easy-Going' Sondes
Release Date:20/04/1927
Wolf's Clothing
Character:Barry Baline
Release Date:15/01/1927
Across the Pacific
Character:Monte
Release Date:02/10/1926
So This Is Paris
Character:Dr. Paul Giraud
Release Date:31/07/1926
Other Women's Husbands
Character:Dick Lambert
Release Date:17/03/1926
The Man Upstairs
Character:Geoffrey West
Release Date:22/01/1926
Hogan's Alley
Character:Lefty O'Brien
Release Date:12/12/1925
Red Hot Tires
Character:Al Jones
Release Date:31/10/1925
The Limited Mail
Character:Bob Wilson / Bob Snobson
Release Date:05/09/1925
Kiss Me Again
Character:Gaston Fleury
Release Date:01/08/1925
Recompense
Character:Peter Graham
Release Date:26/04/1925
The Dark Swan
Character:Lewis Dike
Release Date:26/11/1924
The Lover of Camille
Character:Jean Gaspard Deburau
Release Date:15/09/1924
Her Marriage Vow
Character:Bob Hilton
Release Date:20/07/1924
Being Respectable
Character:Charles Carpenter
Release Date:01/07/1924
Revelation
Character:Paul Granville
Release Date:23/06/1924
Daughters of Pleasure
Character:Kent Merrill
Release Date:15/06/1924
How to Educate a Wife
Character:Ernest Todd
Release Date:01/05/1924
Mademoiselle Midnight
Character:Owen Burke / Jerry Brent
Release Date:14/04/1924
The Marriage Circle
Character:Dr. Franz Braun
Release Date:10/02/1924
Loving Lies
Character:Captain Dan stover
Release Date:22/01/1924
Lucretia Lombard
Character:Stephen Winship
Release Date:08/12/1923
Defying Destiny
Character:Jack Fenton
Release Date:29/09/1923
The Purple Highway
Character:Edgar Prentice, aka Edgar Craig
Release Date:05/08/1923
Main Street
Character:Dr. Will Kennicott
Release Date:25/04/1923
Brass
Character:Philip Baldwin
Release Date:04/03/1923
Broadway Rose
Character:Tom Darcy
Release Date:22/09/1922
My Old Kentucky Home
Character:Richard Goodloe
Release Date:09/04/1922
Peacock Alley
Character:Elmer Harmon
Release Date:23/01/1922
Orphans of the Storm
Character:Danton
Release Date:28/12/1921
The Affairs of Anatol
Character:Abner Elliott
Release Date:25/09/1921
Moonlight and Honeysuckle
Character:Ted Musgrove
Release Date:01/07/1921
A Broken Doll
Character:Tommy Dawes
Release Date:12/06/1921
A Perfect Crime
Character:Wally Griggs
Release Date:05/03/1921
The Kentuckians
Character:Boone Stallard
Release Date:20/02/1921
The Jucklins
Character:Bill Hawes
Release Date:09/01/1921
Something to Think About
Character:Jim Dirk
Release Date:16/10/1920
A Cumberland Romance
Character:Sherd Raines
Release Date:06/08/1920
The 13th Commandment
Character:
Release Date:17/01/1920
Everywoman
Character:Love
Release Date:30/12/1919
Too Much Johnson
Character:Billy Lounsberry
Release Date:01/12/1919
In Mizzoura
Character:Sam Fowler
Release Date:05/10/1919
Told in the Hills
Character:Kalitan
Release Date:21/09/1919
Rustling a Bride
Character:Nick McCredie
Release Date:27/04/1919
Pettigrew's Girl
Character:Pvt. William Pettigrew
Release Date:23/03/1919
Romance and Arabella
Character:Harry Atteridge
Release Date:15/02/1919
The Squaw Man
Character:Happy
Release Date:15/12/1918
The Romance of Tarzan
Character:Juan
Release Date:17/10/1918
Riders of the Night
Character:'The Killer' Jed
Release Date:15/10/1918
The Goddess of Lost Lake
Character:(uncredited)
Release Date:14/10/1918
100% American
Character:Mayme's Army boyfriend
Release Date:04/10/1918
Johanna Enlists
Character:Pvt. Vibbard
Release Date:14/09/1918
Till I Come Back to You
Character:American Doughboy
Release Date:25/08/1918
Hands Up
Character:
Release Date:18/08/1918
The Only Road
Character:Pedro Lupo
Release Date:03/06/1918
M'Liss
Character:Mexican Joe Dominguez
Release Date:05/05/1918
The Red, Red Heart
Character:Billy Porter
Release Date:08/04/1918
The Man from Painted Post
Character:Slim Carter
Release Date:29/09/1917
Wild and Woolly
Character:One of Wild Bill's Men (Uncredited)
Release Date:24/06/1917
Hands Up!
Character:Dan Tracy
Release Date:28/04/1917
Betsy's Burglar
Character:Victor Gilpin
Release Date:04/03/1917
Jim Bludso
Character:Joe Bowers
Release Date:04/02/1917
The Matrimaniac
Character:Assistant Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Release Date:16/12/1916
The Microscope Mystery
Character:Jud
Release Date:19/11/1916
The Vagabond Prince
Character:Peasant
Release Date:22/10/1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character:The Strike Leader
Release Date:04/09/1916
The Devil's Needle
Character:Bartender (uncredited)
Release Date:12/08/1916
Martyrs of the Alamo
Character:Defender of the Alamo
Release Date:20/11/1915
The Noon Hour
Character:Ada's Brother
Release Date:11/08/1915
Ghosts
Character:Bohemian
Release Date:31/05/1915
The Birth of a Nation
Character:(uncredited)
Release Date:08/03/1915
Television Appearances
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