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George Montgomery Died at age: 84

Actor | Producer

    George Montgomery was boxing champion at the University of Montana, where he majored in architecture and interior design. Dropping out a year later, he decided to take up boxing more seriousl

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    Ransom

    Inspector Marks ( Actor )

    ... 1988

    Wild Wind

    Major Nestorovic ( Actor )

    ... 1985

    The Daredevil

    Paul Tunney ( Actor )

    ... 1972

Date of Birth:

Aug 29, 1916

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Dec 12, 2000

Biography of

George Montgomery

    George Montgomery was boxing champion at the University of Montana, where he majored in architecture and interior design. Dropping out a year later, he decided to take up boxing more seriously, and moved to California, where he was coached by ex-heavyweight world champion James J. Jeffries. While in Hollywood, he came to the attention of the studios (not least, because he was an expert rider) and was hired as a stuntman in 1935. After doing this for four years, George was offered a contract at 20th Century Fox in 1939, but found himself largely confined to leads in B-westerns. He did not secure a part in anything even remotely like a prestige picture, until his co-starring role in Roxie Hart (1942), opposite Ginger Rogers. Next, in Orchestra Wives (1942), he played the perfunctory love interest for Ann Rutherford -- though both, inevitably, ended up playing second trombone to Glenn Miller and His Orchestra.

    In 1947, George got his first serious break, being cast as Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe, in The Brasher Doubloon (1947). Reviewers, however, compared his performance unfavourably with that of Humphrey Bogart and found the film 'pallid' overall. So it was back to the saddle for George. Unable to shake his image as a cowboy actor, he starred in scores of films with titles like Belle Starr's Daughter (1948), Dakota Lil (1950), Jack McCall Desperado (1953) and Masterson of Kansas (1954) at Columbia, and for producer Edward Small at United Artists. When not cleaning up the Wild West with his six-shooter, he branched out into adventure films set in exotic locales (notably as Harry Quartermain in Watusi (1959)). During the 60's, he also wrote, directed and starred in several long-forgotten, low-budget wartime potboilers made in the Philippines.

    At the height of his popularity, George attracted as much publicity for his acting, as for his liaisons with glamorous stars, like Ginger Rogers, Hedy Lamarr (to whom he was briefly engaged) and singer Dinah Shore (whom he married in 1943). After his retirement from the film business, he devoted himself to his love of painting, furniture-making and sculpting bronze busts, including one of his close friend Ronald Reagan.

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Filmography of

George Montgomery

Found 81 Movies in total

Ransom

Inspector Marks ( Actor )

... 1988

Wild Wind

Major Nestorovic ( Actor )

... 1985

The Daredevil

Paul Tunney ( Actor )

... 1972

Satan's Harvest

Cutter Murdock ( Actor )

Writer

... 1970

... 1970

... 1969

Warkill

Col. John Hannegan ( Actor )

... 1968

Bomb at 10:10

Steve Corbett / Stiv Korbet ( Actor )

... 1967

Hostile Guns

Gid McCool ( Actor )

... 1967

Hallucination Generation

Eric ( Actor )

Special Effects

... 1966

Battle of the Bulge

Sgt. Duquesne ( Actor )

... 1965

Django the Condemned

Pat O'Brien ( Actor )

... 1965

Hell of Borneo

John Dirkson ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1964

Guerillas in Pink Lace

Murphy ( Actor )

Director

... 1964

Samar

Dr. John David Saunders ( Actor )

Writer

... 1962

The Steel Claw

Capt. John Larsen ( Actor )

Writer

... 1961

King of the Wild Stallions

Randy Burke ( Actor )

... 1959

Watusi

Harry Quartermain ( Actor )

... 1959

Badman's Country

Pat Garrett ( Actor )

... 1958

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone

Capt. Matt Sloane ( Actor )

... 1958

Man from God's Country

Dan Beattie ( Actor )

... 1958

Black Patch

Clay Morgan ( Actor )

... 1957

Pawnee

Paul 'Pale Arrow' Fletcher ( Actor )

... 1957

Street of Sinners

John Dean ( Actor )

... 1957

Gun Duel in Durango

Will Sabre ( Actor )

... 1957

Last of the Badmen

Dan Barton ( Actor )

... 1957

Huk!

Greg Dickson ( Actor )

... 1956

Canyon River

Steve Patrick ( Actor )

... 1956

Robbers' Roost

Jim 'Tex' Wall ( Actor )

... 1955

Seminole Uprising

Cam Elliott ( Actor )

... 1955

Masterson of Kansas

Bat Masterson ( Actor )

... 1954

Battle of Rogue River

Maj. Frank Archer ( Actor )

... 1954

The Lone Gun

Cruze ( Actor )

... 1954

Gun Belt

Billy Ringo ( Actor )

... 1953

Fort Ti

Capt. Jed Horn ( Actor )

... 1953

Jack McCall, Desperado

Jack McCall ( Actor )

... 1953

The Pathfinder

Pathfinder ( Actor )

... 1952

Cripple Creek

Bret Ivers / Iverson ( Actor )

... 1952

Indian Uprising

Capt. Chase McCloud ( Actor )

... 1952

The Texas Rangers

Johnny Carver ( Actor )

... 1951

The Sword of Monte Cristo

Captain Renault ( Actor )

... 1951

The Iroquois Trail

Nat Cutler / Hawkeye ( Actor )

... 1950

Dakota Lil

Tom Horn / Steve Garrett ( Actor )

... 1950

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout

Davy Crockett ( Actor )

... 1950

Belle Starr's Daughter

Marshal Tom Jackson ( Actor )

... 1948

The Girl from Manhattan

Rev. Tom Walker ( Actor )

... 1948

Lulu Belle

George Davis ( Actor )

... 1948

The Brasher Doubloon

Philip Marlowe ( Actor )

... 1947

Three Little Girls in Blue

Van Damm Smith ( Actor )

... 1946

Take It or Leave It

Himself ( Actor )

... 1944

Bomber's Moon

Capt. Jeffrey Dakin ( Actor )

... 1943

Coney Island

Eddie Johnson ( Actor )

... 1943

China Girl

Johnny Williams ( Actor )

... 1942

Orchestra Wives

Bill Abbot ( Actor )

... 1942

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

Joe Dawson ( Actor )

... 1942

Roxie Hart

Homer Howard ( Actor )

... 1942

Cadet Girl

Tex Mallory ( Actor )

... 1941

Riders of the Purple Sage

Lassiter ( Actor )

... 1941

Last of the Duanes

Buck Duane ( Actor )

... 1941

Accent on Love

John Worth Hyndman ( Actor )

... 1941

The Cowboy and the Blonde

Lank Garrett ( Actor )

... 1941

Charter Pilot

Charlie Crane ( Actor )

... 1940

Young People

Mike Shea ( Actor )

... 1940

Hi-Yo Silver

Jim Clark ( Actor )

... 1940

Star Dust

Ronnie ( Actor )

... 1940

The Cisco Kid and the Lady

Tommy Bates ( Actor )

... 1939

South of the Border

Bandit ( Actor )

... 1939

Saga of Death Valley

Henchman ( Actor )

... 1939

The Arizona Kid

Soldier ( Actor )

... 1939

In Old Monterey

Soldier ( Actor )

... 1939

Wall Street Cowboy

Cowhand ( Actor )

... 1939

In Old Caliente

Henchman ( Actor )

... 1939

... 1939

The Night Riders

Mob Member ( Actor )

... 1939

Frontier Pony Express

Lieutenant Harris ( Actor )

... 1939

... 1939

Rough Riders' Round-up

Patrolman Joe ( Actor )

... 1939

The Mysterious Miss X

Policeman ( Actor )

... 1939

Army Girl

Soldier ( Actor )

... 1938

The Lone Ranger

Jim Clark ( Actor )

... 1938

Springtime in the Rockies

Cowhand at Dance (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937