Montgomery Clift
Actor
Born October 17, 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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.”
Filmography
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
Making Montgomery Clift
Self (archive footage)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive)
Listen to Me Marlon
Self (archive footage)
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Marilyn at the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
Self (archive footage)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
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Making 'The Misfits'
Self (archive footage)
George Stevens and His Place In The Sun
Self (archive footage)
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Dr. Cukrowicz (archive footage)
100 Years at the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Gay! Gay! Hollywood
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
(archive footage)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
Self (archive footage)
Montgomery Clift
Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Self (archive footage)
The Defector
Professor James Bower
Freud: The Secret Passion
Sigmund Freud
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Judgment at Nuremberg
Rudolph Petersen
The Misfits
Perce Howland
Wild River
Chuck Glover
Suddenly, Last Summer
Dr. Cukrowicz
Lonelyhearts
Adam White
The David Susskind Show
Self
The Young Lions
Noah Ackerman
Raintree County
John Wickliff Shawnessy
Operation Raintree
Self
From Here to Eternity
Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Giovanni Doria
I Confess
Fr. Michael William Logan
A Place in the Sun
George Eastman
The Big Lift
Sgt. 1st Class Danny MacCullough
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
The Heiress
Morris Townsend
Red River
Matthew Garth
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Search
Ralph Stevenson