- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- October 17, 1920
- Place of Birth
- Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- Died
- July 23, 1966
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 ty…
Filmography
movieElizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
2024 · Self (archive footage)
movieRat Pack
2022 · Self (archive footage)
movieMaking Montgomery Clift
2018 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Fabulous Allan Carr
2017 · Self (archive)
movieListen to Me Marlon
2015 · Self (archive footage)
movieMarlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014 · Self - Actor (archive footage)
Starring Sigmund Freud
movieStarring Sigmund Freud
2012 · (archive footage)
movieMarilyn at the Movies
2011 · Self (archive footage)
movieHitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
2004 · Self (archive footage)
movieEdith Head: The Paramount Years
2002 · (archive footage)
movieMaking 'The Misfits'
2002 · Self (archive footage)
movieGeorge Stevens and His Place In The Sun
2001 · Self (archive footage)
movieSir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997 · Self (archive footage)
movieTennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994 · Dr. Cukrowicz (archive footage)
movie100 Years at the Movies
1994 · Self (archive footage)
movieGay! Gay! Hollywood
1994
movieHollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990 · (archive footage)
movieHollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieMontgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
1987 · Self (archive footage)
movieMontgomery Clift
1983 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1973 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Defector
1966 · Professor James Bower
William Faulkner's Mississippi
movieWilliam Faulkner's Mississippi
1965 · Self - Narrator
movieFreud: The Secret Passion
1962 · Sigmund Freud
tvThe Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
movieJudgment at Nuremberg
1961 · Rudolph Petersen
movieThe Misfits
1961 · Perce Howland
movieWild River
1960 · Chuck Glover
movieSuddenly, Last Summer
1959 · Dr. Cukrowicz
movieLonelyhearts
1959 · Adam White
tvThe David Susskind Show
1959 · Self
movieThe Young Lions
1958 · Noah Ackerman
movieRaintree County
1957 · John Wickliff Shawnessy
movieOperation Raintree
1957 · Self
movieFrom Here to Eternity
1953 · Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
movieIndiscretion of an American Wife
1953 · Giovanni Doria
movieI Confess
1953 · Fr. Michael William Logan
movieA Place in the Sun
1951 · George Eastman
movieThe Big Lift
1950 · Sgt. 1st Class Danny MacCullough
tvWhat's My Line?
1950 · Self - Mystery Guest
movieThe Heiress
1949 · Morris Townsend
movieRed River
1948 · Matthew Garth
tvThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
movieThe Search
1948 · Ralph Stevenson