Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift

Birthday: 1920-10-17

Deathday: 1966-07-23

Place of birth: Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Also known as: Edward Montgomery Clift, Monty Clift, Монтгомери Клифт

imdb_id: nm0001050

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.

Played in movies:

Rat Pack

Score: 9.0

Judgment at Nuremberg

Score: 8.0

The Heiress

Score: 7.8

Making Montgomery Clift

Score: 7.7

Listen to Me Marlon

Score: 7.5

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

Score: 7.5

Red River

Score: 7.3

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

Score: 7.3

A Place in the Sun

Score: 7.3

Suddenly, Last Summer

Score: 7.3

From Here to Eternity

Score: 7.3

Wild River

Score: 7.2

I Confess

Score: 7.1

Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess

Score: 7.0

The Misfits

Score: 6.9

The Search

Score: 6.9

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

Score: 6.8

The Big Lift

Score: 6.7

George Stevens and His Place In The Sun

Score: 6.7

The Young Lions

Score: 6.7

Freud: The Secret Passion

Score: 6.5

Raintree County

Score: 6.4

Lonelyhearts

Score: 6.1

Operation Raintree

Score: 6.0

Indiscretion of an American Wife

Score: 5.9

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

Score: 5.7

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Score: 5.6

The Defector

Score: 5.5

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

Score: 5.2

Montgomery Clift

Score: 4.4

Making 'The Misfits'

Score: 0.0

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Score: 0.0

Starring Sigmund Freud

Score: 0.0

Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star

Score: 0.0

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

What's My Line?

Score: 6.9

The Ed Sullivan Show

Score: 6.7

The David Susskind Show

Score: 5.0