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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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Filmography
All 220
Movies 211
TV Shows 9
Self 4
Director 3

Hollywood My Home Town (1965)

26 Men (1957)

The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956)

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955)

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954)

Apache (1954)

Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush (1954)

The Last Posse (1953)

Hangman's Knot (1952)

Trail of the Arrow (1952)

Mr. & Mrs. North (1952)

This Is Your Life (1952)

Sky King (1952)

Rose of Cimarron (1952)

Warpath (1951)

The Sea Hornet (1951)

Gold Raiders (1951)

Snake River Desperadoes (1951)

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951)

Three Desperate Men (1951)

So You Want to Hold Your Husband (1950)

This Side of the Law (1950)

The Iroquois Trail (1950)

Backfire (1950)

The Blonde Bandit (1949)

The Big Wheel (1949)

Ranger of Cherokee Strip (1949)

The Lone Ranger (1949)

The Fountainhead (1949)

Colorado Territory (1949)

The Younger Brothers (1949)

Homicide (1949)

South of St. Louis (1949)

Flaxy Martin (1949)

Johnny Belinda (1948)

Two Guys from Texas (1948)

Key Largo (1948)

Silver River (1948)

Life with Father (1947)

The Unfaithful (1947)

Cheyenne (1947)

Possessed (1947)

Stallion Road (1947)

Bells of San Fernando (1947)

Humoresque (1947)

The Time, The Place and The Girl (1946)

Never Say Goodbye (1946)

So You Want to Play the Horses (1946)

Shadow of a Woman (1946)

Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946)

Cinderella Jones (1946)

San Antonio (1945)

Frontier Days (1945)

Danger Signal (1945)

The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)

The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

Trial by Trigger (1944)

Northern Pursuit (1943)

Action in the North Atlantic (1943)

Mission to Moscow (1943)

Edge of Darkness (1943)

Truck Busters (1943)

Casablanca (1943)

The Hard Way (1943)

Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer (1943)

Gentleman Jim (1942)

Road to Morocco (1942)

The Hidden Hand (1942)

I Married a Witch (1942)

Secret Enemies (1942)

Across the Pacific (1942)

The Great Man's Lady (1942)

My Favorite Blonde (1942)

Klondike Fury (1942)

The Remarkable Andrew (1942)

North to the Klondike (1942)

Pacific Blackout (1941)

Law of the Timber (1941)

New York Town (1941)

King of the Texas Rangers (1941)

Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)

Sunset in Wyoming (1941)

Riders of Death Valley (1941)

Scattergood Pulls the Strings (1941)

The Great Train Robbery (1941)

The Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)

Mystery Sea Raider (1940)

North West Mounted Police (1940)

Young Bill Hickok (1940)

Road to Singapore (1940)

Days of Jesse James (1939)

Geronimo (1939)

Our Leading Citizen (1939)

Port of Hate (1939)

Juarez (1939)

Union Pacific (1939)

Frontier Pony Express (1939)

Dodge City (1939)

Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938)

Hawk of the Wilderness (1938)

Illegal Traffic (1938)

King of Alcatraz (1938)

The Mysterious Rider (1938)

Touchdown, Army (1938)

Rebellious Daughters (1938)

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938)

Cocoanut Grove (1938)

The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)

Personality Parade (1938)

Born to the West (1937)

Amateur Crook (1937)

Sky Racket (1937)

Souls at Sea (1937)

Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm (1937)

The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937)

Secret Agent X-9 (1937)

A Million to One (1936)

Ride, Ranger, Ride (1936)

Song of the Gringo (1936)

Mary of Scotland (1936)

Prison Shadows (1936)

Undersea Kingdom (1936)

Treachery Rides the Range (1936)

Desert Gold (1936)

Nevada (1935)

Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935)

Trails of the Wild (1935)

The Test (1935)

'G' Men (1935)

Social Error (1935)

On Probation (1935)

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Student Tour (1934)

Wagon Wheels (1934)

The Last Round-up (1934)

Come On, Marines! (1934)

Her Forgotten Past (1933)

The Intruder (1933)

The Thundering Herd (1933)

Officer Thirteen (1932)

The Stoker (1932)

The Flood (1931)

Those Who Dance (1930)

Isle of Escape (1930)

Tiger Rose (1929)

Show of Shows (1929)

Skin Deep (1929)

From Headquarters (1929)

No Defense (1929)

The Greyhound Limited (1929)

Conquest (1928)

White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)

Across the Atlantic (1928)

Brass Knuckles (1927)

One-Round Hogan (1927)

Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927)

The Bush Leaguer (1927)

The Black Diamond Express (1927)

Bitter Apples (1927)

The Brute (1927)

Wolf's Clothing (1927)

Across the Pacific (1926)

So This Is Paris (1926)

Other Women's Husbands (1926)

The Man Upstairs (1926)

Hogan's Alley (1925)

Red Hot Tires (1925)

The Limited Mail (1925)

Kiss Me Again (1925)

Recompense (1925)

The Dark Swan (1924)

The Lover of Camille (1924)

Her Marriage Vow (1924)

Being Respectable (1924)

Revelation (1924)

Daughters of Pleasure (1924)

How to Educate a Wife (1924)

Mademoiselle Midnight (1924)

The Marriage Circle (1924)

Loving Lies (1924)

Lucretia Lombard (1923)

Defying Destiny (1923)

The Purple Highway (1923)

Main Street (1923)

Brass (1923)

Broadway Rose (1922)

My Old Kentucky Home (1922)

Peacock Alley (1922)

Orphans of the Storm (1921)

The Affairs of Anatol (1921)

Moonlight and Honeysuckle (1921)

A Broken Doll (1921)

A Perfect Crime (1921)

Something to Think About (1920)

The 13th Commandment (1920)

Everywoman (1919)

Too Much Johnson (1919)

Romance and Arabella (1919)

The Squaw Man (1918)

The Romance of Tarzan (1918)

Riders of the Night (1918)

The Goddess of Lost Lake (1918)

100% American (1918)

Johanna Enlists (1918)

Till I Come Back to You (1918)

Hands Up (1918)

The Only Road (1918)

M'Liss (1918)

The Man from Painted Post (1917)

Wild and Woolly (1917)

Hands Up! (1917)

Betsy's Burglar (1917)

The Matrimaniac (1916)

The Microscope Mystery (1916)

The Vagabond Prince (1916)

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)

The Devil's Needle (1916)

Martyrs of the Alamo (1915)

Ghosts (1915)

The Birth of a Nation (1915)
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Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday1887-01-10
Deathday1963-02-18 (76 years old)
Place of birthIndianapolis, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also known asG.M. Blue, Gerard Montgomery "Monte" Blue, Gerard Montgomery Blue
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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