Montgomery Clift
Intel File

Born:
Oct 17, 1920

Died:
Jul 23, 1966

Age: 45 Deceased

From:
Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Department:
Acting

Total Credits: 44

Avg Rating: 6.9

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Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star

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Montgomery Clift

Also known as: Edward Montgomery Clift, Monty Clift, Монтгомери Клифт

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 a...

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Self (archive footage) 2024
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage) 2022
Making Montgomery Clift
Self (archive footage) 2018
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive) 2017
Listen to Me Marlon
Self (archive footage) 2015
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Actor (archive footage) 2014
Starring Sigmund Freud
(archive footage) 2012
Marilyn at the Movies
Self (archive footage) 2011
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
Self (archive footage) 2004
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
(archive footage) 2002
Making 'The Misfits'
Self (archive footage) 2002
George Stevens and His Place In The Sun
Self (archive footage) 2001
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self (archive footage) 2000
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage) 1997
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Dr. Cukrowicz (archive footage) 1994
Gay! Gay! Hollywood
1994
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
(archive footage) 1990
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited) 1988
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
Self (archive footage) 1987
Montgomery Clift
Self (archive footage) 1983
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Self (archive footage) 1973
The Defector
Professor James Bower 1966
William Faulkner's Mississippi
Self - Narrator 1965
Freud: The Secret Passion
Sigmund Freud 1962
The Merv Griffin Show
Self 1962
Judgment at Nuremberg
Rudolph Petersen 1961
The Misfits
Perce Howland 1961
Wild River
Chuck Glover 1960
Suddenly, Last Summer
Dr. Cukrowicz 1959
Lonelyhearts
Adam White 1959
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