Montgomery Clift
Age: N/A | From: Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Person Details
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Aliases: Edward Montgomery Clift , Monty Clift , Монтгомери Клифт
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Homepage: https://www.cmgww.com/stars/clift/
Movie Involvements: 36
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
The Misfits
(1961) Perce Howland
Red River
(1948) Matthew Garth
Judgment at Nuremberg
(1961) Rudolph Petersen
From Here to Eternity
(1953) Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
The Young Lions
(1958) Noah Ackerman
I Confess
(1953) Fr. Michael William Logan
Suddenly, Last Summer
(1959) Dr. Cukrowicz
A Place in the Sun
(1951) George EastmanActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Montgomery Clift (Images d'archives) | |
| 2018 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2015 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2014 | Self - Actor (archive footage) | |
| 2004 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2002 | (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2001 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2000 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1997 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1994 | Dr. Cukrowicz (archive footage) | |
| 1990 | (Archive footage) | |
| 1987 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1985 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1983 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1973 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1966 | Professor James Bower | |
| 1965 | (archive footage) | |
| 1962 | Sigmund Freud | |
| 1961 | Rudolph Petersen | |
| Perce Howland | ||
| 1960 | Chuck Glover | |
| 1959 | Dr. Cukrowicz | |
| Adam White | ||
| Self | ||
| 1958 | Noah Ackerman | |
| 1957 | John Wickliff Shawnessy | |
| Self | ||
| 1953 | Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt | |
| Giovanni Doria | ||
| Fr. Michael William Logan | ||
| 1951 | George Eastman | |
| 1950 | Sgt. 1st Class Danny MacCullough | |
| Self - Mystery Guest | ||
| 1949 | Morris Townsend | |
| 1948 | Matthew Garth | |
| Self | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Ralph Stevenson | ||
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Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |