Monte Blue Biography

Fast Facts

• Worked as a reporter, miner, cowhand, and circus performer before getting involved in the film industry
• Made his screen acting debut as an extra and stuntman in the film "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915
• Quote: "(On transitioning from silent star to character actor): "I looked in the mirror and saw I was no little Lord Fauntleroy․ I decided to build my new career on rock instead of sand․ So I started out at the bottom as an extra․""
• After retiring from film, he worked as a press agent for the Hamid-Morton Circus
• Best known for his role as Sheriff Ben Wade in "Key Largo" and as Dr․ Matthew Lloyd in "White Shadows in the South Seas․"
• During his later career he appeared on television series like "Rawhide," "The Lone Ranger," and "Wagon Trail․"
• Was a stunt double for DeWolf Hopper in "Don Quixote" and for Sir Herbert Beerbohm in 1916's "Macbeth․"