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.
Filmography
all 40
Movies 37
self 17
TV Shows 3
Marilyn, femme d'aujourd'hui (2022)
Rat Pack (2022)
Making Montgomery Clift (2018)
Listen to Me Marlon (2015)
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire (2014)
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess (2004)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002)
Making 'The Misfits' (2002)
George Stevens and His Place In The Sun (2001)
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (1994)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990)
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star (1987)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1985)
Montgomery Clift (1983)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973)
The Defector (1966)
The Love Goddesses (1965)
Freud: The Secret Passion (1962)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Misfits (1961)
Wild River (1960)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Lonelyhearts (1959)
The David Susskind Show (1959)
The Young Lions (1958)
Raintree County (1957)
Operation Raintree (1957)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953)
I Confess (1953)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
The Big Lift (1950)
What's My Line? (1950)
The Heiress (1949)
Red River (1948)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
The Search (1948)
Starring Sigmund Freud
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1920-10-17
Deathday1966-07-23 (45 years old)
Birth PlaceOmaha, United States of America
Height
FatherWilliam Brooks Clift
MotherEthel Anderson Fogg
SiblingsEleanor Clift
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsEdward Montgomery Clift, Monty Clift, Монтгомери Клифт
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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