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person_profile-Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift Died at age: 45

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Montgomery Clift

Date of Birth:

Oct 17, 1920

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jul 23, 1966

Biography of

Montgomery Clift

    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.

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Montgomery Clift

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Filmography of

Montgomery Clift

Found 30 Movies in total

Making Montgomery Clift

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2018

Listen to Me Marlon

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2015

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

Self - Actor (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2014

Making 'The Misfits'

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2002

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2000

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1997

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Dr. Cukrowicz (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1994

... 1990

Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1987

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1985

Montgomery Clift

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1983

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1973

The Defector

Professor James Bower ( Actor )

... 1966

The Love Goddesses

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1965

Freud: The Secret Passion

Sigmund Freud ( Actor )

... 1962

Judgment at Nuremberg

Rudolph Petersen ( Actor )

... 1961

The Misfits

Perce Howland ( Actor )

... 1961

Wild River

Chuck Glover ( Actor )

... 1960

Suddenly, Last Summer

Dr. Cukrowicz ( Actor )

... 1959

Lonelyhearts

Adam White ( Actor )

... 1959

The Young Lions

Noah Ackerman ( Actor )

... 1958

Raintree County

John Wickliff Shawnessy ( Actor )

... 1957

From Here to Eternity

Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt ( Actor )

... 1953

Indiscretion of an American Wife

Giovanni Doria ( Actor )

... 1953

I Confess

Fr. Michael William Logan ( Actor )

... 1953

A Place in the Sun

George Eastman ( Actor )

... 1951

The Big Lift

Sgt. 1st Class Danny MacCullough ( Actor )

... 1950

The Heiress

Morris Townsend ( Actor )

... 1949

Red River

Matthew Garth ( Actor )

... 1948

The Search

Ralph Stevenson ( Actor )

Writer

... 1948