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Monte Blue
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Actor Born: January 11, 1890 in Indianapolis, IN Death: February 19, 1963 in Milwaukee, WI Biography:A product of the Indiana orphanage system, the part-Cherokee-Indian Monte Blue held down jobs ranging from stevedore to reporter before offering his services as a movie-studio handyman in the early 1910s. Pressed into service as an extra and stunt man, Blue graduated to featured parts in D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" (1915). Thanks to his work with Griffith and (especially) Cecil B. DeMille, Blue became a dependable box-office attraction of the 1920s, playing everything from lawyers to baseball players. He was a mainstay of the fledgling Warner Bros. studios, where the profits from his films frequently compensated for the expensive failures starring John Barrymore. In 1928 he was cast in his finest silent role, as the drink-sodden doctor in "White Shadows on the South Seas". After making a successful transition to talkies, Blue decided to retire from filmmaking, taking a tour around the world to... Full Biography
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