Monte Montague

Born in Somerset, Kentucky and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio,^{[1][5][6][7][8][9]} Montague was one of four children born to Nannie Davis and Oliver H. Montague.^[7][10][11]

A circus tumbler at age seven,^[4] Montague was eventually recognized as among "filmdom's most noted circus clowns", as well as "one of the best screen comedians in the profession."^[12] The years preceding his 1920 screen debut featured stints with Ringling Brothers, Hagenbech and Wallace, Barnum and Bailey, Al G. Barnes, Sells Floto, and Cooper and Lentz.^[13]

On February 13, 1923, Montague married Mary Margaret Basolo.^[14][15] They had one child, Mary Louise Montague,^[11] who worked briefly as a child actress in films during the 1920s,^[16] appearing at least once—billed alternately as "Baby Montague" or "Monte Mongtague Jr."—alongside her father, in 1927's The Rambling Ranger.^[17][18]

Montague died in 1959 at age 67, in Burbank, California,^[3] survived by his wife, his mother, his daughter, and all three siblings.^[11]