Actor

Montgomery Clift

October 17, 1920 · 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.

Notable work

8
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
as Rudolph Petersen
7.3
From Here to Eternity (1953)
as Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
7.3
Red River (1948)
as Matthew Garth
7.1
I Confess (1953)
as Fr. Michael William Logan
7
The Misfits (1961)
as Perce Howland
7.3
A Place in the Sun (1951)
as George Eastman
7.3
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
as Dr. Cukrowicz

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