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Montgomery Clift
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Montgomery Clift
Homepage
https://www.cmgww.com/stars/clift/
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1920-10-17,Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
Edward Montgomery “Monty” Clift (October 17, 1920 - July 23, 1966) was an American actor of the Golden Age, known for often playing sensitive or conflicted outcast characters with realistic emotional depth and anxieties. Clift, Marlon Brando and James Dean are the trio typically associated with the new wave of film acting, with Clift being the oldest and first to make his stage and screen debuts. Starting at age 14, he was a breakout talent on Broadway throughout 1935-1945. He finally accepted one of many Hollywood offers: starring in the Western “Red River” which was filmed in 1946 but delayed release for 2 years. Fred Zinnemann’s “The Search” preceded “Red River” as his first film in 1948 and first Academy Award nomination. Clift’s next major films were “The Heiress” (1949) and “A Place in the Sun” (1951), cementing his romantic lead status. At the time, audiences had rarely seen a type of masculinity softened with Clift’s vulnerability. Hollywood had also never seen a young actor control his career and instant stardom the way Clift did in the late 1940’s: notoriously selective, refusing the standard seven-year studio contracts and rewriting scripts to preserve his artistic freedom. In 1953, Zinnemann again directed Clift to an Academy Award nomination in war drama “From Here to Eternity.” After suffering a near-fatal car accident during “Raintree County” (1957) he starred in acclaimed 1960’s films "Wild River,” "The Misfits” and “Judgment at Nuremberg” for which he earned a fourth and final Academy Award nomination for his 12-minute scene. Despite a 4-year hiatus and mounting health problems, Clift was eager to make a comeback in "Reflections in a Golden Eye,” secured by the insurance and insistence of co-star Elizabeth Taylor, but he tragically died of a heart attack at the age of 45 just weeks before shooting began.

Filmography

Judgment at Nuremberg

7.992

Judgment at Nuremberg
1961-12-18

7.336

Red River
1948-09-17

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

7

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000-08-01

5.8

The Defector
1966-10-19

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

5.7

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990-01-01

7.1

I Confess
1953-02-12

6.962

The Misfits
1961-02-01

From Here to Eternity

7.258

From Here to Eternity
1953-08-28

A Place in the Sun

7.3

A Place in the Sun
1951-06-12

The Young Lions

6.758

The Young Lions
1958-04-02

7.8

The Heiress
1949-10-06

Freud: The Secret Passion

6.488

Freud: The Secret Passion
1962-12-12

7.1

The Search
1948-03-26

Suddenly, Last Summer

7.3

Suddenly, Last Summer
1959-12-22

6.893

The Big Lift
1950-04-26

Raintree County

6.441

Raintree County
1957-12-20

7.2

Wild River
1960-05-26

Indiscretion of an American Wife

5.941

Indiscretion of an American Wife
1953-04-02

6.318

Lonelyhearts
1959-03-04

Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star

10

Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
1987-10-07

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

6.8

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1973-01-01

Montgomery Clift

4.286

Montgomery Clift
1983-01-01

Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess

7

Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
2004-09-07

9

Rat Pack
2022-01-11

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

7.7

Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002-11-26

Starring Sigmund Freud

0

Starring Sigmund Freud
2012-11-01

Listen to Me Marlon

7.5

Listen to Me Marlon
2015-07-29

Operation Raintree

6.5

Operation Raintree
1957-08-31

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

9

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994-12-19

Making Montgomery Clift

7.8

Making Montgomery Clift
2018-09-23

Making 'The Misfits'

7

Making 'The Misfits'
2002-10-02

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

5.267

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997-11-01

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

7.222

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014-09-20

George Stevens and His Place In The Sun

7

George Stevens and His Place In The Sun
2001-08-14

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

0

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988-09-19

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

6.933

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
2024-05-16

Gay! Gay! Hollywood

3.3

Gay! Gay! Hollywood
1994-01-01

Marilyn at the Movies

0

Marilyn at the Movies
2011-10-13

William Faulkner's Mississippi

9

William Faulkner's Mississippi
1965-04-23

The Fabulous Allan Carr

5

The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017-05-19

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

5.786

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985-03-03

Eve and Marilyn

8

Eve and Marilyn
1987-09-08

The David Susskind Show

7

The David Susskind Show
1959-01-18

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.8

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20

What's My Line?

7

What's My Line?
1950-02-02

The Merv Griffin Show

6.833

The Merv Griffin Show
1962-10-01