Monte Blue Overview:

Character actor, Monte Blue, was born Gerard Montgomery Blue on Jan 11, 1887 in Indianapolis, IN. Blue died at the age of 76 on Feb 18, 1963 in Milwaukee, WI .

MINI BIO:

Moon-faced American romantic lead with sleek brown hair, popular in silent and early sound light dramas, before moving into scores of character roles until his retirement in 1955, following a brief period working in a circus. Part Cherokee Indian, Blue began his career as a stuntman for director D.W. Griffith after periods as a cowhand, a timberjack and labouring on the railroad. Died from a coronary attack.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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Monte Blue Quotes:

Dr. Matthew Lloyd: They are like man was before he lost the Garden of Eden.


Unga Khan: Recall the troops. With those religious fanatics under control, I'll have no more interference with my plans to destroy the upper world!


Dr. Matthew Lloyd: [after putting a stethescope on a man's chest] I was sure it wasn't in your heart to refuse me a drink.


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Silent-film actor.

Father of Tove Blue Valentine.

He was raised in an orphans' home (The Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home in Knightstown, Indiana). His father, a Civil War veteran in the Union army who had once served as a scout for famed frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody, was killed in a car crash when Blue was eight years old and his mother could not raise Monte and her other four children by herself.

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