Lee Montague

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Lee Montague (born October 16, 1927 in London ) is a British actor .

Life

Montague made his stage actor debut at the Old Vic Theater in London in 1950 in William Shakespeare's later comedy What You Want . In the 1951/52 season he appeared there as Usumcasane in Tamburlaine the Great by Christopher Marlowe , as the villain Edmund in King Lear and as Flaminius in Timon of Athens . In 1952 he made his Broadway debut at the Martin Beck Theater in New York City in the play The Climate of Eden by Moss Hart . In 1953 he played the Ben in Love for Love by William Congreve and the Dauphin in the historical drama Henry V by William Shakespeare at the Bristol Old Vic Theater . In 1953 he undertook with Henry V. , a tour through Switzerland . In 1957 he played Demetrius in Titus Andronicus at the Stoll Theater in London .

In the 1960s he had theater engagements again at the Old Vic Theater: in 1962 as Shylock in Shakespeare's tragicomedy The Merchant of Venice and in 1963 as Angelo in Maß für Maß . In October 1965 Montague starred again on Broadway in the play Entertaining Mr. Sloane by Joe Orton . In the early 1970s, theater engagements at the Oxford Playhouse followed: as Iago in Shakespeare's tragedy Othello and as the businessman Lopachin in Anton Chekhov's comedy The Cherry Orchard . Montague also went on a tour of Great Britain with both pieces . In 1972 he took over at the Bristol Old Vic Theater in the title role in Volpone by Ben Jonson . At the Stratford East Theater in London he played in August Strindberg's play The Father in 1976 . Montague completed other theater engagements until the end of the 1970s.

From the 1950s, Montague also worked as an actor for film and television . He played in films of various genres, where he was often used in the role of the "tough guy" or the "tough guy". He made his film debut in 1952 in John Huston's biography Moulin Rouge , in which he played Maurice Joyant , the art dealer and childhood friend of Toulouse- Lautrecs . In 1959 he played the role of Eskimo Ittimargnek at the side of Anthony Quinn in the adventure film In the Land of Long Shadows . In 1962, he took on the role of Squeak , the assistant to the brutal boatswain Claggert, in the literary film adaptation of The Damned of the Seas , based on Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd . In 1972 he played the role of the businessman Pietro Di Bernardone , the father of Francis of Assisi , in the British-Italian film Brother Sun, Sister Moon by Franco Zeffirelli, which was inspired by the hippie feeling of the 1970s . In 1974, Ken Russell's composer biography Mahler played the role of Bernhard Mahler, Gustav Mahler's drunkard- prone father . Another collaboration with Zeffirelli followed in 1977: Montague was in the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth , where he took on the role of Habbakkuk. In 1978 he was seen as Uncle Sascha in the miniseries Holocaust - The Story of the Weiss Family . In 1978 he worked in the horror film The House of Satan . In 1986 he played the small but dramaturgical role of the Spanish ambassador Renard in the costume drama Lady Jane - Queen for nine days .

Montague also appeared in numerous television series , including Moon Base Alpha 1 , Dempsey & Makepeace , and most recently as the murder victim Thomas Lovell in an episode of the crime series Waking the Dead - On behalf of the dead and Hotel Babylon .

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SURNAME Montague, Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH London