Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
10/17/1920
Place of Birth
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Also Known As
Edward Montgomery CliftMonty CliftМонтгомери Клифт
Montgomery Clift
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
The Misfits
as Perce Howland
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Rudolph Petersen
The Defector
as Professor James Bower
The Heiress
as Morris Townsend
Red River
as Matthew Garth
Lonelyhearts
as Adam White
Indiscretion of an American Wife
as Giovanni Doria
Wild River
as Chuck Glover
Raintree County
as John Wickliff Shawnessy
From Here to Eternity
as Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Dr. Cukrowicz (archive footage)
Suddenly, Last Summer
as Dr. Cukrowicz
I Confess
as Fr. Michael William Logan
A Place in the Sun
as George Eastman
Montgomery Clift
as Self (archive footage)
Freud: The Secret Passion
as Sigmund Freud
The Young Lions
as Noah Ackerman
Making Montgomery Clift
as Self (archive footage)
The Big Lift
as Sgt. 1st Class Danny MacCullough