Montgomery Clift
Acting
Born 1920-10-17
Died 1966-07-23
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
45 credits
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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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Filmography
Acting
44 credits
The Merv Griffin Show
What's My Line?
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Misfits
Judgment at Nuremberg
I Confess
Red River
From Here to Eternity
The David Susskind Show
The Young Lions
The Defector
Suddenly, Last Summer
A Place in the Sun
The Heiress
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Rat Pack
Raintree County
Freud: The Secret Passion
Listen to Me Marlon
Wild River
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
The Fabulous Allan Carr
The Big Lift
The Search
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Starring Sigmund Freud
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Operation Raintree
Lonelyhearts
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Montgomery Clift
Marilyn at the Movies
Making 'The Misfits'
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
Making Montgomery Clift
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
William Faulkner's Mississippi
George Stevens and His Place In The Sun
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