Montgomery Clift

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Edward Montgomery Clift (nicknamed 'Monty' his entire life) was born on October 17, 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska, just after his twin sister Roberta (1920-2014) and eighteen months after his brother Brooks Clift. He was the son of Ethel "Sunny" Anderson (Fogg; 1888-1988) and William Brooks Clift (1886-1964). His father made a lot of money in banking ... See full bio »

Born:

October 17, 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Died:

July 23, 1966 (age 45) in New York City, New York, USA

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Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations. See more awards »

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From Here to Eternity Robert E. Lee Prewitt

(1953)

A Place in the Sun George Eastman

(1951)

Judgment at Nuremberg Rudolph Petersen

(1961)

Suddenly, Last Summer Dr. Cukrowicz

(1959)

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Actor (18 credits)

1966 L'espion
Prof. James Bower

1962 Freud
Sigmund Freud

1961 Judgment at Nuremberg
Rudolph Petersen

1961 The Misfits
Perce Howland

1960 Wild River
Chuck Glover

1959 Suddenly, Last Summer
Dr. Cukrowicz

1958 Lonelyhearts
Adam White

1958 The Young Lions
Noah Ackerman

1957 Raintree County
John Wickliff Shawnessy

1953 From Here to Eternity
Robert E. Lee Prewitt

1953 Indiscretion of an American Wife
Giovanni Doria

1953 I Confess
Father Michael Logan

1951 A Place in the Sun
George Eastman

1950 The Big Lift
Danny MacCullough

1949 The Heiress
Morris Townsend

1948 Red River
Matt Garth

1948 The Search
Ralph Stevenson

1939 Hay Fever (TV Movie)

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Writer (3 credits)

1966 L'espion (uncredited)

1961 Judgment at Nuremberg (uncredited)

1948 The Search (uncredited)

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Soundtrack (1 credit)

1949 The Heiress (performer: "Plaisir d'amour (The Joys of Love)" (1780) - uncredited)

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Thanks (1 credit)

2009 The New Bike (Short) (acknowledgment)

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Self (9 credits)

2012 Starring Sigmund Freud (Documentary short)

1965 William Faulkner's Mississippi (TV Movie documentary)
Narrator

1964 The David Susskind Show (TV Series)
Himself

- Episode dated 1 March 1964 (1964) ... Himself

1963 Berliner Bilderbogen (TV Series)
Himself

- Zu den XIII Internationalen Filmfestspielen Berlin (1963) ... Himself

1963 The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series)
Himself

- Episode #1.86 (1963) ... Himself

1963 What's My Line? (TV Series)
Himself - Mystery Guest

- Montgomery Clift (1963) ... Himself - Mystery Guest

1962 Here's Hollywood (TV Series)
Himself

- Episode #2.101 (1962) ... Himself

1957 Operation Raintree (Documentary short)
Himself (uncredited)

1954 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series)
Himself

- Episode #7.27 (1954) ... Himself

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Archive footage (34 credits)

2018 Making Montgomery Clift (Documentary)
Himself

2017 The Fabulous Allan Carr (Documentary)
Himself

2017 Jeopardy! (TV Series)
Dr. Cukrowicz

- Episode #33.85 (2017) ... Dr. Cukrowicz (as Monty Clift)

2016 La otra sala: Clásicos (TV Series documentary)

2015 Frank Sinatra. Die Stimme Amerikas (Documentary)
Himself

2015 Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (TV Mini-Series documentary)
Himself

- Part 1 (2015) ... Himself

2015 Listen to Me Marlon (Documentary)
Himself (uncredited)

2011 These Amazing Shadows (Documentary)
Matt Garth (clip from Red River (1948)) (uncredited)

2008 Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence (TV Series)
Perce Howland in 'The Misfits'

- Richard Gere (2008) ... Perce Howland in 'The Misfits'

2008 How the West Was Lost (TV Movie documentary)
Perce Howland (uncredited)

2007 The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (TV Movie documentary)
Various unspecified characters in various archival movie clips (uncredited)

2007 Brando (TV Movie documentary)
Himself

2006 Fragiles et sublimes... Stars en clair obscur (TV Movie documentary)
Himself

2005 Ciclo Alfred Hitchcock (TV Series)
Fr. Logan

- Sobre 'Yo confieso' (2005) ... Fr. Logan

2004 Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (Documentary)

1998-2003 Biography (TV Series documentary)
Himself

- Elizabeth Taylor: Facets (2003) ... Himself

- Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star (1998) ... Himself

2002 Sendung ohne Namen (TV Series documentary)
Matt Garth

- Weihnachten (2002) ... Matt Garth

2002 Edith Head: The Paramount Years (Video documentary short)

2002 Great Performances (TV Series)
Himself

- Making 'The Misfits' (2002) ... Himself

2000 Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (TV Movie documentary)
Himself / John Wickliff Shawnessy

2000 Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (Video documentary)
Himself

2000 Omnibus (TV Series documentary)

- Elizabeth Taylor: England's Other Elizabeth (2000)

1999 The Rat Pack (TV Series documentary)
Himself

1998 E! Mysteries & Scandals (TV Series documentary)
Himself

- Montgomery Clift (1998) ... Himself

1997 The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (Documentary)
Himself

1997 Great Romances of the 20th Century: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (TV Short documentary)

1994 100 Years at the Movies (TV Short documentary)
Himself

1984 George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (Documentary)
Himself

1983 Montgomery Clift (Documentary)
Himself (film clips and documentary footage)

1981 Sixty Years of Seduction (TV Movie documentary)

1976 America at the Movies (Documentary)
'Matt' Garth / George Eastman

1965 The Love Goddesses (Documentary)
Himself

1965 The Legend of Marilyn Monroe (Documentary)
Actor 'The Misfits' (uncredited)

1955-1961 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series)
Perce Howland / Himself

- Episode #14.17 (1961) ... Perce Howland

- Episode #8.22 (1955) ... Himself

Personal Details

Other Works:

Stage Play: The Searching Wind. Drama. Written by Lillian Hellman. Directed and produced by Herman Shumlin. Fulton Theatre: 12 Apr 1944- 20 Jan 1944 (318 performances). As "Samuel Hazen." Cast: Edgar Andrews, Dudley Digges, Joe De Santis, Eugene Earl, Mercedes Gilbert, Alfred Hesse, Dennis King, Walter Kohler, Arnold Korff, Eric Latham, ... See more »

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Official Sites:

Official Site

Alternate Names:

Monty Clift

Height:

5' 10" (1.78 m)

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Personal Quote:

Good dialogue simply isn't enough to explain all the infinite gradations of a character. It's behavior -- it's what's going on behind the lines. See more »

Trivia:

His father was a violent, abusive, ultra-conservative bigot and did not get along with his son. As an actor, whenever Clift was playing characters snapping as they went up against ignorance or brutality, Clift was said to have acted with his father in mind as an antagonist. See more »