Monte Blue
1887-01-10 ( 138 years old ) in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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.

Movies

Apache 1954-07-09
Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush 1954-01-01
The Last Posse 1953-07-04
Hangman's Knot 1952-11-15
Trail of the Arrow 1952-11-02
Rose of Cimarron 1952-01-28
Warpath 1951-11-22
The Sea Hornet 1951-11-06
Gold Raiders 1951-09-09
Snake River Desperadoes 1951-05-30
Three Desperate Men 1951-01-12
So You Want to Hold Your Husband 1950-07-01
This Side of the Law 1950-06-17
The Iroquois Trail 1950-06-15
Backfire 1950-01-26
The Blonde Bandit 1949-12-22
Ranger of Cherokee Strip 1949-11-04
The Big Wheel 1949-11-04
The Fountainhead 1949-06-25
Colorado Territory 1949-06-11
The Younger Brothers 1949-05-03
Homicide 1949-04-02
South of St. Louis 1949-03-06
Flaxy Martin 1949-02-15
Adventures of Don Juan 1948-12-24
Johnny Belinda 1948-09-14
Two Guys from Texas 1948-08-27
Key Largo 1948-07-16
Silver River 1948-05-20
Life with Father 1947-09-13
The Unfaithful 1947-07-01
Cheyenne 1947-06-06
Possessed 1947-05-29
Stallion Road 1947-04-12
Bells of San Fernando 1947-03-01
Humoresque 1947-01-25
The Time, The Place and The Girl 1946-12-26
The Man I Love 1946-12-26
Never Say Goodbye 1946-11-09
So You Want to Play the Horses 1946-10-05
Shadow of a Woman 1946-09-14
Two Guys from Milwaukee 1946-07-26
Cinderella Jones 1946-03-09
San Antonio 1945-12-29
Frontier Days 1945-12-08
Danger Signal 1945-11-21
The Horn Blows at Midnight 1945-04-28
The Mask of Dimitrios 1944-06-23
Trial by Trigger 1944-05-27
Northern Pursuit 1943-11-07
Thank Your Lucky Stars 1943-09-25
Action in the North Atlantic 1943-06-12
Mission to Moscow 1943-04-29
Edge of Darkness 1943-04-09
Truck Busters 1943-01-28
Casablanca 1943-01-15
The Hard Way 1943-01-13
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer 1943-01-02
Gentleman Jim 1942-11-14
Road to Morocco 1942-11-10
The Hidden Hand 1942-11-07
I Married a Witch 1942-10-30
Secret Enemies 1942-09-17
Across the Pacific 1942-09-04
My Favorite Blonde 1942-04-02
Klondike Fury 1942-03-20
The Remarkable Andrew 1942-03-05
North to the Klondike 1942-01-23
Pacific Blackout 1941-12-31
Law of the Timber 1941-12-19
The Great Man's Lady 1941-10-31
New York Town 1941-10-31
King of the Texas Rangers 1941-10-03
Bad Man of Deadwood 1941-09-05
Sunset in Wyoming 1941-07-15
Riders of Death Valley 1941-07-01
Scattergood Pulls the Strings 1941-05-23
The Great Train Robbery 1941-02-28
The Texas Rangers Ride Again 1940-12-13
Mystery Sea Raider 1940-10-26
North West Mounted Police 1940-10-22
Young Bill Hickok 1940-10-21
Road to Singapore 1940-03-22
Days of Jesse James 1939-12-20
Geronimo 1939-11-26
Our Leading Citizen 1939-08-23
Port of Hate 1939-08-21
Juarez 1939-06-10
Union Pacific 1939-05-05
Frontier Pony Express 1939-04-11
Dodge City 1939-04-08
Tom Sawyer, Detective 1938-12-24
Hawk of the Wilderness 1938-12-03
Illegal Traffic 1938-11-02
King of Alcatraz 1938-09-30
The Mysterious Rider 1938-09-21
Touchdown, Army 1938-08-04
Rebellious Daughters 1938-07-01
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok 1938-06-30
Cocoanut Grove 1938-05-20
The Big Broadcast of 1938 1938-02-11
Born to the West 1937-12-10
Amateur Crook 1937-12-10
Sky Racket 1937-10-01
Souls at Sea 1937-09-03
Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm 1937-05-12
The Outcasts of Poker Flat 1937-04-16
Secret Agent X-9 1937-04-12
A Million to One 1936-12-31
Ride, Ranger, Ride 1936-11-30
Song of the Gringo 1936-11-22
Mary of Scotland 1936-07-28
Prison Shadows 1936-07-17
Sharad of Atlantis 1936-05-30
Treachery Rides the Range 1936-05-02
Desert Gold 1936-03-26
Nevada 1935-11-29
Wanderer of the Wasteland 1935-09-09
Trails of the Wild 1935-07-31
The Test 1935-05-10
'G' Men 1935-05-04
Social Error 1935-04-30
On Probation 1935-04-01
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1935-01-11
Student Tour 1934-10-05
Wagon Wheels 1934-09-15
The Last Round-up 1934-05-01
Come On, Marines! 1934-03-23
Her Forgotten Past 1933-09-01
The Intruder 1933-03-13
The Thundering Herd 1933-03-01
Officer Thirteen 1932-11-26
The Stoker 1932-06-15
Those Who Dance 1930-04-18
Isle of Escape 1930-03-01
Tiger Rose 1929-12-21
Show of Shows 1929-11-21
Skin Deep 1929-09-07
From Headquarters 1929-04-27
No Defense 1929-04-05
The Greyhound Limited 1929-02-09
Conquest 1928-12-22
White Shadows in the South Seas 1928-11-11
Across the Atlantic 1928-01-18
Brass Knuckles 1927-12-03
One-Round Hogan 1927-09-17
Life in Hollywood No. 4 1927-08-25
The Bush Leaguer 1927-08-20
The Black Diamond Express 1927-06-04
Bitter Apples 1927-04-23
Across the Pacific 1926-10-02
So This Is Paris 1926-07-31
Other Women's Husbands 1926-03-17
The Man Upstairs 1926-01-22
Hogan's Alley 1925-12-12
Red Hot Tires 1925-10-31
The Limited Mail 1925-09-05
Kiss Me Again 1925-08-01
Recompense 1925-04-26
The Dark Swan 1924-11-26
The Lover of Camille 1924-09-15
Her Marriage Vow 1924-07-20
Being Respectable 1924-07-01
Revelation 1924-06-23
Daughters of Pleasure 1924-06-15
How to Educate a Wife 1924-05-01
Mademoiselle Midnight 1924-04-14
The Marriage Circle 1924-02-10
Loving Lies 1924-01-22
Lucretia Lombard 1923-12-08
Defying Destiny 1923-09-29
The Purple Highway 1923-08-05
Main Street 1923-04-25
Brass 1923-03-04
Broadway Rose 1922-09-22
My Old Kentucky Home 1922-04-09
Peacock Alley 1922-01-23
Orphans of the Storm 1921-12-28
The Affairs of Anatol 1921-09-25
Moonlight and Honeysuckle 1921-07-01
A Broken Doll 1921-06-12
A Perfect Crime 1921-03-05
The Kentuckians 1921-02-20
Something to Think About 1920-10-16
The 13th Commandment 1920-01-17
Everywoman 1919-12-30
Too Much Johnson 1919-12-01
Romance and Arabella 1919-02-15
The Squaw Man 1918-12-15
The Romance of Tarzan 1918-10-17
Riders of the Night 1918-10-15
The Goddess of Lost Lake 1918-10-14
100% American 1918-10-04
Johanna Enlists 1918-09-14
Till I Come Back to You 1918-08-25
Hands Up 1918-08-18
The Only Road 1918-06-03
M'Liss 1918-05-05
The Man from Painted Post 1917-09-29
Wild and Woolly 1917-06-24
Hands Up! 1917-04-28
Betsy's Burglar 1917-03-04
Jim Bludso 1917-02-04
The Matrimaniac 1916-12-16
The Microscope Mystery 1916-11-19
The Vagabond Prince 1916-10-22
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916-09-04
The Devil's Needle 1916-08-12
Martyrs of the Alamo 1915-11-20
Ghosts 1915-05-31
The Birth of a Nation 1915-02-08

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