Montgomery Clift
Acting
Born October 17, 1920 · Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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 delay…
Known For · 40 titles
The Merv Griffin Show
What's My Line?
The Ed Sullivan Show
The David Susskind Show
The Misfits
From Here to Eternity
Judgment at Nuremberg
Red River
The Defector
I Confess
A Place in the Sun
Suddenly, Last Summer
Raintree County
The Heiress
The Young Lions
Wild River
The Search
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Freud: The Secret Passion
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Operation Raintree
Listen to Me Marlon
Starring Sigmund Freud
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Rat Pack
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Gay! Gay! Hollywood
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
The Big Lift
William Faulkner's Mississippi
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Lonelyhearts
Making 'The Misfits'
Marilyn at the Movies
Making Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star