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Apache

as Geronimo

1954
Trail of the Arrow

as (archive footage)

1952
Gold Raiders

as John Sawyer

1951
This Side of the Law

as The Sheriff

1950
The Iroquois Trail

as Chief Sagamore

1950
The Big Wheel

as Deacon Jones

1949
Key Largo

as

1948
Silver River

as 'Buck' Chevigee

1948
The Time, The Place and The Girl

as Stage Manager (uncredited)

1946
San Antonio

as Cleve Andrews

1945
North to the Klondike

as John Burke

1942
Bad Man of Deadwood

as Sheriff Jordan

1941
Sunset in Wyoming

as Jim Hayes

1941
King of the Texas Rangers

as Capt. Tom King Sr.

1941
The Great Train Robbery

as The Super

1941
Riders of Death Valley

as Rance Davis

1941
Young Bill Hickok

as Marshal Evans

1940
Frontier Pony Express

as Cherokee

1939
Hawk of the Wilderness

as Yellow Weasel

1938
The Mysterious Rider

as Cap Folsom

1938
Born to the West

as Bart Hammond

1937
Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm

as Joe Stafford

1937
A Million to One

as John Kent Sr.

1936
Secret Agent X-9

as Baron Michael Karsten

1937
Sky Racket

as Benjamin Arnold

1937
Ride, Ranger, Ride

as Duval, aka Chief Tavibo

1936
Song of the Gringo

as Sheriff

1936
Monte Blue Monte Blue

Birthday

1887-01-11

Place of Birth

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Biography

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.
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