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.
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 (Movies)
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:16/05/2024
Rat Pack
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:11/01/2022
Making Montgomery Clift
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:23/09/2018
Listen to Me Marlon
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:29/07/2015
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Character:Self - Actor (archive footage)
Release Date:20/09/2014
Starring Sigmund Freud
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:01/11/2012
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:07/09/2004
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:26/11/2002
Making 'The Misfits'
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:02/10/2002
George Stevens and His Place In The Sun
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:14/08/2001
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/08/2000
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/11/1997
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Character:Dr. Cukrowicz (archive footage)
Release Date:19/12/1994
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1990
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Character:
Release Date:19/09/1988
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:07/10/1987
Montgomery Clift
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1983
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1973
The Defector
Character:Professor James Bower
Release Date:19/10/1966
The Love Goddesses
Character:(Archive Footage)
Release Date:03/03/1965
Freud: The Secret Passion
Character:Sigmund Freud
Release Date:12/12/1962
Judgment at Nuremberg
Character:Rudolph Petersen
Release Date:18/12/1961
The Misfits
Character:Perce Howland
Release Date:01/02/1961
Wild River
Character:Chuck Glover
Release Date:26/05/1960
Suddenly, Last Summer
Character:Dr. Cukrowicz
Release Date:22/12/1959
Lonelyhearts
Character:Adam White
Release Date:04/03/1959
The Young Lions
Character:Noah Ackerman
Release Date:02/04/1958
Raintree County
Character:John Wickliff Shawnessy
Release Date:20/12/1957
Operation Raintree
Character:Self
Release Date:31/08/1957
From Here to Eternity
Character:Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
Release Date:28/08/1953
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Character:Giovanni Doria
Release Date:02/04/1953
I Confess
Character:Fr. Michael William Logan
Release Date:12/02/1953
A Place in the Sun
Character:George Eastman
Release Date:12/06/1951
The Big Lift
Character:Sgt. 1st Class Danny MacCullough
Release Date:26/04/1950
The Heiress
Character:Morris Townsend
Release Date:06/10/1949
Red River
Character:Matthew Garth
Release Date:17/09/1948
The Search
Character:Ralph Stevenson
Release Date:26/03/1948
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