Montgomery Clift

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-10-17 (46 years old)

Deathday

1966-07-23

Place of Birth

Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Montgomery Clift

Biography

Edward Montgomery “Monty” Clift 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 fir...

Acting

1961

Judgment at Nuremberg

as Rudolph Petersen

1948

Red River

as Matthew Garth

2000

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

as Self (archive footage)

1966

The Defector

as Professor James Bower

1953

I Confess

as Fr. Michael William Logan

1961

The Misfits

as Perce Howland

1953

From Here to Eternity

as Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt

1951

A Place in the Sun

as George Eastman

1958

The Young Lions

as Noah Ackerman

1949

The Heiress

as Morris Townsend

1962

1948

The Search

as Ralph Stevenson

1959

Suddenly, Last Summer

as Dr. Cukrowicz

1950

The Big Lift

as Sgt. 1st Class Danny MacCullough

1957

Raintree County

as John Wickliff Shawnessy

1960

Wild River

as Chuck Glover

1959

Lonelyhearts

as Adam White

1987

Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star

as Self (archive footage)

1973

1983

Montgomery Clift

as Self (archive footage)

2004

2022

Rat Pack

as Self (archive footage)

2002

2012

Starring Sigmund Freud

as (archive footage)

2015

Listen to Me Marlon

as Self (archive footage)

1994

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

as Dr. Cukrowicz (archive footage)

2018

Making Montgomery Clift

as Self (archive footage)

2002

Making 'The Misfits'

as Self (archive footage)

1985

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

as Self (archive footage)

1997

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

as Self (archive footage)

2014

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2001

Production

1948

The Search

as Writer

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