Personal Info
Birth date
1887-01-10 (138 Years)
Day of death
1963-02-18
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Also known as
G.M. Blue
Gerard Montgomery "Monte" Blue
Gerard Montgomery Blue
Monte Blue
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.
Filmography
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
6.75
Overview:
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.The Lone Ranger
6.656
Overview:
The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".Rawhide
7.13
Overview:
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.26 Men
4.2
Overview:
26 Men is a syndicated American western television series about the Arizona Rangers, an elite group commissioned in 1901 by the legislature of the Arizona Territory and limited, for financial reasons, to twenty-six active members. Russell Hayden was the producer of the series and the co-composer of the theme song. The series aired between October 15, 1957 and June 30, 1959, for a total of 78 episodes.The Adventures of Jim Bowie
5
Overview:
The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assistance. He was aided by the Bowie Knife, his ever-present weapon. He designed it in the first episode, The Birth of the Blade.Casablanca
8.155
Overview:
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.This Is Your Life
6.417
Overview:
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
4.5
Overview:
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.Mr. & Mrs. North
4.333
Overview:
Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.Orphans of the Storm
6.809
Overview:
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.The Birth of a Nation
5.981
Overview:
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.The Affairs of Anatol
5.6
Overview:
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats on him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.Born to the West
4.476
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Dare Rudd takes a shine to his cattleman cousin Tom's girlfriend who asks Tom to hire Dare to head the big cattle drive. Dare loses the money for the drive to cardsharps, but Tom wins it back, but Dare must save Tom's life.The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
6.9
Overview:
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame.Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
7.085
Overview:
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.Dodge City
6.9
Overview:
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.Key Largo
7.5
Overview:
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.Cheyenne
6.8
Overview:
Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His mission is to uncover the identity of the Poet, a notorious outlaw who has been holding up bank-owned stagecoaches and leaving verses at the crime scenes to taunt the authorities. James finds time to woo the Poet's lovely wife, Ann, who initially cold-shoulders him. But, as a romance develops, they partner up to find the robber.Apache
6.1
Overview:
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the way he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas though.Colorado Territory
6.951
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After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.Mary of Scotland
6.338
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The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.Possessed
6.8
Overview:
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.I Married a Witch
6.829
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A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.The Last Posse
6.1
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A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.Union Pacific
6.5
Overview:
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?Sharad of Atlantis
4.235
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Crash Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, and Diana, a go-getting reporter, join Professor Norton for a search for the source of a string of earthquakes, Atlantis. They ride Prof. Norton's rocket submarine searching the sea and little Billy Norton, the professor's son stows away, of course. When they find Atlantis they are caught in a war between peaceful Atlanteans, note their white capes, and war-monging Atlanteans, note their black capes. After many harrowing moments for Crash, Diana, Prof. Norton and Billy, they barely get away with their lives when they escape a tower of Atlantis raised to the surface for the sole purpose of dominating or destroying the Earth (Which one depends on the compliance of the upper world dwellers.)Action in the North Atlantic
7.1
Overview:
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.Acting
1959Rawhide as Unknown
195726 Men (1 Episode) as Unknown
1956The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1 Episode) as Unknown
1954The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1 Episode) as Unknown
1954Apache as Geronimo
1954Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush as Sheriff
1953The Last Posse as Uncle Will
1952Hangman's Knot as Maxwell
1952Trail of the Arrow as (archive footage)
1952Mr. & Mrs. North (1 Episode) as Unknown
1952This Is Your Life (1 Episode) as Self
1952Rose of Cimarron as Lone Eagle
1951Warpath as First Emigrant
1951The Sea Hornet as Lt. Drake
1951Gold Raiders as John Sawyer
1951Snake River Desperadoes as Jim Haverly
1951The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1951Three Desperate Men as Marshal Pete Coleman
1950So You Want to Hold Your Husband as Rice - Curry's Partner
1950This Side of the Law as The Sheriff
1950The Iroquois Trail as Chief Sagamore
1950Backfire as Det. Sgt. Pluther (uncredited)
1949The Blonde Bandit as Police Chief Ramsey
1949Ranger of Cherokee Strip as Chief Hunter
1949The Big Wheel as Deacon Jones
1949The Lone Ranger (1 Episode) as Sheriff Stanton
1949The Fountainhead as Gas Station Executive (uncredited)
1949Colorado Territory as U.S. Marshal (uncredited)
1949The Younger Brothers as Deputy Joe
1949Homicide as George, Sheriff
1949South of St. Louis as Capt. Jeffrey
1949Flaxy Martin as Joe, Detective
1948Adventures of Don Juan as Turnkey (uncredited)
1948Johnny Belinda as Ben (uncredited)
1948Two Guys from Texas as Pete Nash
1948Key Largo as Sheriff Ben Wade
1948Silver River as 'Buck' Chevigee
1947Life with Father as The Policeman
1947The Unfaithful as Businessman with Hunter
1947Cheyenne as Timberline
1947Possessed as Norris - lake house caretaker
1947Stallion Road as Horse Rancher (uncredited)
1947Bells of San Fernando as Governor Don Sebastian Fernando
1947Humoresque as Moving Man (uncredited)
1946The Time, The Place and The Girl as Stage Manager (uncredited)
1946The Man I Love as Cop (uncredited)
1946Never Say Goodbye as Policeman (uncredited)
1946So You Want to Play the Horses as The Colonel (uncredited)
1946Shadow of a Woman as Mike, Police Lieutenant
1946Two Guys from Milwaukee as Broadcast Director (uncredited)
1946Cinderella Jones as Jailer
1945San Antonio as Cleve Andrews
1945Frontier Days as Ned-U.S. Marshal
1945Danger Signal as Policeman in Car
1945The Horn Blows at Midnight as The Chef (uncredited)
1944The Mask of Dimitrios as Abdul Dhris
1944Trial by Trigger as Brewster (uncredited)
1943Northern Pursuit as Jean
1943Thank Your Lucky Stars as Bartender in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
1943Action in the North Atlantic as Seaman (uncredited)
1943Mission to Moscow as Heckler (uncredited)
1943Edge of Darkness as Jens Petersen
1943Truck Busters as Scrappy O'Brien
1943Casablanca as American (uncredited)
1943The Hard Way as Man in Audience (Uncredited)
1943Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer as Bit Role
1942Gentleman Jim as Gambler in "Lucky Guy"
1942Road to Morocco as Kasim's Aide (uncredited)
1942The Hidden Hand as Matthews, the undertaker (uncredited)
1942I Married a Witch as Doorman (uncredited)
1942Secret Enemies as Hugo Mehl
1942Across the Pacific as Dan Morton
1942My Favorite Blonde as Policeman at Union Hall (uncredited)
1942Klondike Fury as Flight Dispatcher
1942The Remarkable Andrew as Policeman
1942North to the Klondike as John Burke
1941Pacific Blackout as Colonel
1941Law of the Timber as Hodge Mason
1941The Great Man's Lady as Man #2, Hoyt City
1941New York Town as McAuliffe (uncredited)
1941King of the Texas Rangers as Capt. Tom King Sr.
1941Bad Man of Deadwood as Sheriff Jordan
1941Sunset in Wyoming as Jim Hayes
1941Riders of Death Valley as Rance Davis
1941Scattergood Pulls the Strings as Ben Mott
1941The Great Train Robbery as The Super
1940The Texas Rangers Ride Again as Pablo Slide Along
1940Mystery Sea Raider as Captain Norberg
1940North West Mounted Police as Indian
1940Young Bill Hickok as Marshal Evans
1940Road to Singapore as High Priest (uncredited)
1939Days of Jesse James as Train Passenger
1939Geronimo as Interpreter
1939Our Leading Citizen as Frank
1939Port of Hate as Hammond
1939Juarez as Lerdo de Tajada
1939Union Pacific as Indian (uncredited)
1939Frontier Pony Express as Cherokee
1939Dodge City as Barlow
1938Tom Sawyer, Detective as Sheriff Walker
1938Hawk of the Wilderness as Yellow Weasel
1938Illegal Traffic as Captain Moran
1938King of Alcatraz as Officer
1938The Mysterious Rider as Cap Folsom
1938Touchdown, Army as Pilot (uncredited)
1938Rebellious Daughters as Charlie, alias Clint Houston
1938The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Mr. Cameron
1938Cocoanut Grove as Undetermined Role
1938The Big Broadcast of 1938 as Passenger (uncredited)
1937Born to the West as Bart Hammond
1937Amateur Crook as Crone
1937Sky Racket as Benjamin Arnold
1937Souls at Sea as Mate
1937Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm as Joe Stafford
1937The Outcasts of Poker Flat as Indian Jim
1937Secret Agent X-9 as Baron Michael Karsten
1936A Million to One as John Kent Sr.
1936Ride, Ranger, Ride as Duval, aka Chief Tavibo
1936Song of the Gringo as Sheriff
1936Mary of Scotland as Messenger
1936Prison Shadows as Bert McNamee
1936Sharad of Atlantis as Unga Khan
1936Treachery Rides the Range as Colonel Drummond
1936Desert Gold as Chetley 'Chet' Kasedon
1935Nevada as Clem Dillon
1935Wanderer of the Wasteland as Guerd Larey
1935Trails of the Wild as RCMP Larry Doyle
1935The Test as Pepite La Joie
1935'G' Men as Fingerprint Expert
1935Social Error as Dean Carter
1935On Probation as Al Murray
1935The Lives of a Bengal Lancer as Hamzulla Khan
1934Student Tour as Jeff Kane
1934Wagon Wheels as Kenneth Murdock
1934The Last Round-up as Jack Kells
1934Come On, Marines! as Lt. Allen
1933Her Forgotten Past as Donald Thorne
1933The Intruder as John Brandt
1933Buffalo Stampede as Smiley
1932Officer Thirteen as Tom Burke
1932The Stoker as Dick Martin
1930Those Who Dance as Dan Hogan
1930Isle of Escape as Dave Wade
1929Tiger Rose as Devlin
1929The Show of Shows as Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
1929Skin Deep as Joe Daley
1929From Headquarters as Happy Smith
1929No Defense as Monte Collins
1929The Greyhound Limited as Monte
1928Conquest as Donald Overton
1928White Shadows in the South Seas as Dr. Matthew Lloyd
1928Across the Atlantic as Hugh Clayton
1927Brass Knuckles as Zac Harrison
1927One-Round Hogan as Robert Emmet Hogan
1927Life in Hollywood No. 4 as Unknown
1927The Bush Leaguer as Buchanan 'Specs' White
1927The Black Diamond Express as Dan Foster
1927Bitter Apples as John Wyncote
1927The Brute as Martin 'Easy-Going' Sondes
1927Wolf's Clothing as Barry Baline
1926Across the Pacific as Monte
1926So This Is Paris as Dr. Paul Giraud
1926Other Women's Husbands as Dick Lambert
1926The Man Upstairs as Geoffrey West
1925Hogan's Alley as Lefty O'Brien
1925Red Hot Tires as Al Jones
1925The Limited Mail as Bob Wilson / Bob Snobson
1925Kiss Me Again as Gaston Fleury
1925Recompense as Peter Graham
1924The Dark Swan as Lewis Dike
1924The Lover of Camille as Jean Gaspard Deburau
1924Her Marriage Vow as Bob Hilton
1924Being Respectable as Charles Carpenter
1924Revelation as Paul Granville
1924Daughters of Pleasure as Kent Merrill
1924How to Educate a Wife as Ernest Todd
1924Mademoiselle Midnight as Owen Burke / Jerry Brent
1924The Marriage Circle as Dr. Franz Braun
1924Loving Lies as Captain Dan stover
1923Lucretia Lombard as Stephen Winship
1923Defying Destiny as Jack Fenton
1923The Purple Highway as Edgar Prentice, aka Edgar Craig
1923Main Street as Dr. Will Kennicott
1923Brass as Philip Baldwin
1922Broadway Rose as Tom Darcy
1922My Old Kentucky Home as Richard Goodloe
1922Peacock Alley as Elmer Harmon
1921Orphans of the Storm as Danton
1921The Affairs of Anatol as Abner Elliott
1921Moonlight and Honeysuckle as Ted Musgrove
1921A Broken Doll as Tommy Dawes
1921A Perfect Crime as Wally Griggs
1921The Kentuckians as Boone Stallard
1920Something to Think About as Jim Dirk
1920The 13th Commandment as Unknown
1919Everywoman as Love
1919Too Much Johnson as Billy Lounsberry
1919Told in the Hills as Kalitan
1919Romance and Arabella as Harry Atteridge
1918The Squaw Man as Happy
1918The Romance of Tarzan as Juan
1918Riders of the Night as 'The Killer' Jed
1918The Goddess of Lost Lake as (uncredited)
1918100% American as Mayme's Army boyfriend
1918Johanna Enlists as Pvt. Vibbard
1918Till I Come Back to You as American Doughboy
1918Hands Up as Unknown
1918The Only Road as Pedro Lupo
1918M'Liss as Mexican Joe Dominguez
1917The Man from Painted Post as Slim Carter
1917Wild and Woolly as One of Wild Bill's Men (Uncredited)
1917Hands Up! as Dan Tracy
1917Betsy's Burglar as Victor Gilpin
1917Jim Bludso as Joe Bowers
1916The Matrimaniac as Assistant Hotel Manager (uncredited)
1916The Microscope Mystery as Jud
1916The Vagabond Prince as Peasant
1916Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages as The Strike Leader
1916The Devil's Needle as Bartender (uncredited)
1915Martyrs of the Alamo as Defender of the Alamo
1915The Noon Hour as Ada's Brother
1915Ghosts as Bohemian
1915The Birth of a Nation as (uncredited)
Directing
1916Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages ... Second Assistant Director
1915The Birth of a Nation ... Assistant Director
Crew
1915The Birth of a Nation ... Stunts