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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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as Geronimo
as Bartender (uncredited)
as Uncle Will
as Maxwell
as (archive footage)
as Self(1 ep)
as Lone Eagle
as First Emigrant
as Lt. Drake
as John Sawyer
as Jim Haverly
as Marshal Pete Coleman
as Rice - Curry's Partner
as The Sheriff
as Chief Sagamore
as Charlie Penrose (uncredited)
as Det. Sgt. Pluther (uncredited)
as Police Chief Ramsey
as Chief Hunter
as Deacon Jones
as Sheriff Stanton(1 ep)
as Gas Station Executive (uncredited)
as U.S. Marshal (uncredited)
as Deputy Joe
as George, Sheriff
as Capt. Jeffrey
as Joe, Detective
as Turnkey (uncredited)
as Ben (uncredited)
as Pete Nash
as Sheriff Ben Wade
as 'Buck' Chevigee
as The Policeman
as Businessman with Hunter
as Timberline
as Norris
as Horse Rancher (uncredited)
as Governor Don Sebastian Fernando
as Moving Man (uncredited)
as Stage Manager (uncredited)
as Cop (uncredited)
as Policeman (uncredited)
as The Colonel (uncredited)
as Mike, Police Lieutenant
as Broadcast Director (uncredited)
as Jailer
as Cleve Andrews
as Ned-U.S. Marshal
as Policeman in Car
as The Chef (uncredited)
as Jennings (uncredited)
as Abdul Dhris
as Brewster (uncredited)
as Second Mate (uncredited)
as Jean
as Bartender in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
as Seaman (uncredited)
as Heckler (uncredited)
as Jens Petersen
as Scrappy O'Brien
as American (uncredited)
as Man in Audience (Uncredited)
as Gambler in "Lucky Guy"
as Kasim's Aide (uncredited)
as Matthews, the undertaker (uncredited)
as Doorman (uncredited)
as Hugo Mehl
as Dan Morton
as Policeman at Union Hall (uncredited)
as Flight Dispatcher
as Policeman
as Police Captain
as John Burke
as Colonel
as Hodge Mason
as Man #2, Hoyt City
as McAuliffe (uncredited)
as Capt. Tom King Sr.
as Sheriff Jordan
as Jim Hayes
as Rance Davis
as Ben Mott
as The Super
as Pablo Slide Along
as Captain Norberg
as Indian
as Marshal Evans
as High Priest (uncredited)
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as Hammond
as Lerdo de Tajada
as Indian (uncredited)
as Cherokee
as Barlow
as Sheriff Walker
as Yellow Weasel
as Captain Moran
as Officer
as Cap Folsom
as Pilot (uncredited)
as Charlie, alias Clint Houston
as Mr. Cameron
as Undetermined Role
as Passenger (uncredited)
as Bart Hammond
as Crone
as Bart Hammond
as Jeff Graves
as Benjamin Arnold
as Mate
as Joe Stafford
as Indian Jim
as Baron Michael Karsten
as John Kent Sr.
as Duval, aka Chief Tavibo
as Sheriff
as Messenger
as Bert McNamee
as Unga Khan
as Colonel Drummond
as Unga Khan(12 eps)
as Chetley 'Chet' Kasedon
as Clem Dillon
as Guerd Larey
as RCMP Larry Doyle
as Pepite La Joie
as Fingerprint Expert
as Dean Carter
as Al Murray
as Hamzulla Khan
as Jeff Kane
as Kenneth Murdock
as Jack Kells
as Lt. Allen
as Donald Thorne
as John Brandt
as Smiley
as Tom Burke
as Dick Martin
as David Bruce
as Dan Hogan
as Dave Wade
as Devlin
as Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
as Joe Daley
as Happy Smith
as Monte Collins
as Monte
as Donald Overton
as Dr. Matthew Lloyd
as Hugh Clayton
as Zac Harrison
as Robert Emmet Hogan
as Buchanan 'Specs' White
as Dan Foster
as John Wyncote
as Martin 'Easy-Going' Sondes
as Barry Baline
as Monte
as Dr. Paul Giraud
as Dick Lambert
as Geoffrey West
as Lefty O'Brien
as Al Jones
as Bob Wilson / Bob Snobson
as Gaston Fleury
as Peter Graham
as Lewis Dike
as Jean Gaspard Deburau
as Bob Hilton
as Charles Carpenter
as Paul Granville
as Kent Merrill
as Ernest Todd
as Owen Burke / Jerry Brent
as Dr. Franz Braun
as Captain Dan stover
as Stephen Winship
as Jack Fenton
as Edgar Prentice, aka Edgar Craig
as Dr. Will Kennicott
as Philip Baldwin
as Tom Darcy
as Richard Goodloe
as Elmer Harmon
as Danton
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as Ted Musgrove
as Tommy Dawes
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as Jim Dirk
as Sherd Raines
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as Billy Lounsberry
as Sam Fowler
as Kalitan
as Nick McCredie
as Pvt. William Pettigrew
as Harry Atteridge
as Happy
as Juan
as 'The Killer' Jed
as (uncredited)
as Mayme's Army boyfriend
as Pvt. Vibbard
as American Doughboy
as Pedro Lupo
as Mexican Joe Dominguez
as Billy Porter
as Slim Carter
as One of Wild Bill's Men (Uncredited)
as Dan Tracy
as Victor Gilpin
as Joe Bowers
as Assistant Hotel Manager (uncredited)
as Jud
as Peasant
as The Strike Leader
as Bartender (uncredited)
as Defender of the Alamo
as Ada's Brother
as Bohemian
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