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.
226 movies · 9 shows
Apache
1954·6.1
Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush
1954·7.0
Ride, Vaquero!
1953·6.1
The Last Posse
1953·6.3
Hangman's Knot
1952·6.6
Trail of the Arrow
1952·9.0
Rose of Cimarron
1952·5.6
Warpath
1951·6.0
The Sea Hornet
1951·6.0
Gold Raiders
1951·6.6
Snake River Desperadoes
1951·4.9
Three Desperate Men
1951·5.5
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
1950·9.0
This Side of the Law
1950·4.8
The Iroquois Trail
1950·6.6
Backfire
1950·5.9
The Blonde Bandit
1949·6.2
Ranger of Cherokee Strip
1949·10.0
The Big Wheel
1949·5.7
The Fountainhead
1949·6.8
Colorado Territory
1949·6.9
The Younger Brothers
1949·7.5
Homicide
1949·5.7
South of St. Louis
1949·5.8
Flaxy Martin
1949·5.6
Adventures of Don Juan
1948·6.8
Johnny Belinda
1948·6.8
Two Guys from Texas
1948·8.0
Key Largo
1948·7.5
Silver River
1948·6.2
Life with Father
1947·6.7
The Unfaithful
1947·5.9
Cheyenne
1947·7.0
Possessed
1947·6.9
Stallion Road
1947·7.5
Bells of San Fernando
1947·4.6
Humoresque
1947·7.0
The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946·5.7
The Man I Love
1946·6.1
Never Say Goodbye
1946·6.3
So You Want to Play the Horses
1946·6.5
Shadow of a Woman
1946·4.5
Two Guys from Milwaukee
1946·4.9
Cinderella Jones
1946·3.8
San Antonio
1945·6.1
Frontier Days
1945·6.3
Danger Signal
1945·6.0
The Horn Blows at Midnight
1945·5.9
The Conspirators
1944·6.3
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944·7.1
Trial by Trigger
1944·5.7
Northern Pursuit
1943·6.1
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943·6.2
Action in the North Atlantic
1943·7.1
Mission to Moscow
1943·5.7
Edge of Darkness
1943·6.3
Truck Busters
1943·7.0
Casablanca
1943·8.1
The Hard Way
1943·6.4
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
1943·7.0
Gentleman Jim
1942·7.2
Road to Morocco
1942·6.9
The Hidden Hand
1942·6.7
I Married a Witch
1942·6.9
Secret Enemies
1942·5.8
Across the Pacific
1942·6.6
My Favorite Blonde
1942·6.4
Klondike Fury
1942·5.1
The Remarkable Andrew
1942·7.4
Treat 'Em Rough
1942·8.0
North to the Klondike
1942·7.1
Pacific Blackout
1941·6.6
Law of the Timber
1941·7.0
The Great Man's Lady
1941·6.3
New York Town
1941·8.5
King of the Texas Rangers
1941·7.0
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941·5.3
Sunset in Wyoming
1941·7.0
Riders of Death Valley
1941·6.8
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
1941·7.0
The Great Train Robbery
1941·8.3
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940·5.6
Mystery Sea Raider
1940·6.0
North West Mounted Police
1940·6.4
Young Bill Hickok
1940·5.4
Road to Singapore
1940·6.4
Days of Jesse James
1939·5.1
Geronimo
1939·5.3
Our Leading Citizen
1939·8.0
Port of Hate
1939·6.3
Juarez
1939·6.5
Union Pacific
1939·6.7
Frontier Pony Express
1939·5.0
Dodge City
1939·6.9
Tom Sawyer, Detective
1938·5.6
Hawk of the Wilderness
1938·7.0
Illegal Traffic
1938·6.6
King of Alcatraz
1938·6.0
The Mysterious Rider
1938·7.3
Touchdown, Army
1938·7.5
Rebellious Daughters
1938·6.0
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1938·9.0
Cocoanut Grove
1938·9.0
The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938·6.3
Born to the West
1937·4.8
Amateur Crook
1937·5.0
Hell Town
1937·0.0
Sky Racket
1937·3.9
Souls at Sea
1937·6.5
Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
1937·5.8
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1937·6.3
Secret Agent X-9
1937·7.3
A Million to One
1936·5.0
Ride, Ranger, Ride
1936·5.2
Song of the Gringo
1936·6.0
Mary of Scotland
1936·6.2
Prison Shadows
1936·5.3
Sharad of Atlantis
1936·4.5
Treachery Rides the Range
1936·4.0
Desert Gold
1936·5.7
Nevada
1935·4.8
Wanderer of the Wasteland
1935·6.0
Trails of the Wild
1935·8.0
The Test
1935·4.3
'G' Men
1935·6.6
Social Error
1935·7.5
On Probation
1935·10.0
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935·6.6
Student Tour
1934·6.7
Wagon Wheels
1934·5.1
The Last Round-up
1934·8.0
Come On, Marines!
1934·5.6
Her Forgotten Past
1933·7.5
The Intruder
1933·4.6
Buffalo Stampede
1933·4.1
Officer Thirteen
1932·6.6
The Stoker
1932·7.0
The Flood
1931·10.0
Those Who Dance
1930·6.2
Isle of Escape
1930·6.5
Tiger Rose
1929·7.0
The Show of Shows
1929·6.6
Skin Deep
1929·3.3
From Headquarters
1929·8.0
No Defense
1929·10.0
The Greyhound Limited
1929·8.0
Conquest
1928·8.0
White Shadows in the South Seas
1928·6.7
Across the Atlantic
1928·9.0
Brass Knuckles
1927·10.0
One-Round Hogan
1927·10.0
Life in Hollywood No. 4
1927·10.0
The Bush Leaguer
1927·10.0
The Black Diamond Express
1927·9.0
Bitter Apples
1927·7.5
The Brute
1927·9.0
Wolf's Clothing
1927·10.0
Across the Pacific
1926·5.0
So This Is Paris
1926·6.3
Other Women's Husbands
1926·8.0
The Man Upstairs
1926·8.0
Hogan's Alley
1925·10.0
Red Hot Tires
1925·7.0
The Limited Mail
1925·10.0
Kiss Me Again
1925·7.0
Recompense
1925·8.0
The Dark Swan
1924·8.0
The Lover of Camille
1924·10.0
Her Marriage Vow
1924·10.0
Being Respectable
1924·9.0
Revelation
1924·9.0
Daughters of Pleasure
1924·8.0
How to Educate a Wife
1924·9.0
Mademoiselle Midnight
1924·5.7
The Marriage Circle
1924·6.3
Loving Lies
1924·9.0
Lucretia Lombard
1923·7.0
Defying Destiny
1923·6.7
The Purple Highway
1923·10.0
Main Street
1923·6.0
Brass
1923·5.0
Broadway Rose
1922·9.0
My Old Kentucky Home
1922·9.0
Peacock Alley
1922·10.0
Orphans of the Storm
1921·6.8
The Affairs of Anatol
1921·5.9
Moonlight and Honeysuckle
1921·7.0
A Broken Doll
1921·9.0
A Perfect Crime
1921·8.0
The Kentuckians
1921·9.0
The Jucklins
1921·8.0
Something to Think About
1920·6.8
A Cumberland Romance
1920·8.0
The 13th Commandment
1920·9.0
Everywoman
1919·8.0
Too Much Johnson
1919·9.0
In Mizzoura
1919·8.0
Told in the Hills
1919·7.0
Rustling a Bride
1919·7.0
Pettigrew's Girl
1919·8.0
Romance and Arabella
1919·9.0
The Squaw Man
1918·5.8
The Romance of Tarzan
1918·6.0
Riders of the Night
1918·7.0
The Goddess of Lost Lake
1918·0.0
100% American
1918·7.0
Johanna Enlists
1918·6.0
Till I Come Back to You
1918·5.7
Hands Up
1918·7.0
The Only Road
1918·0.0
M'Liss
1918·5.7
The Red, Red Heart
1918·0.0
The Man from Painted Post
1917·4.8
Wild and Woolly
1917·6.3
Hands Up!
1917·0.0
Betsy's Burglar
1917·0.0
Jim Bludso
1917·0.0
The Matrimaniac
1916·6.5
The Microscope Mystery
1916·0.0
The Vagabond Prince
1916·0.0
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916·7.1
The Devil's Needle
1916·6.4
Martyrs of the Alamo
1915·5.2
The Noon Hour
1915·0.0
Ghosts
1915·4.5
The Birth of a Nation
1915·5.9