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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 3 wins & 3 nominations. See more awards »

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From Here to Eternity Robert E. Lee Prewitt

(1953)

Red River Matt Garth

(1948)

A Place in the Sun George Eastman

(1951)

Judgment at Nuremberg Rudolph Petersen

(1961)

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1966 The Defector
Professor 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 The Defector (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 (11 credits)

2012 Starring Sigmund Freud (Documentary short)

1965 William Faulkner's Mississippi (TV Movie documentary)
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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

- Montgomery Clift, Don Adams, Nancy Andrews, Charlotte Turgeon (1963) ... Himself

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

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

1963 Hy Gardner Calling (TV Series)
Himself

- Montgomery Clift (1963) ... Himself

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

1952 24th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Himself - Audience Member

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Archive footage (35 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 (uncredited)

2008 Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence (TV Series)
Perce Howland

- Richard Gere (2008) ... Perce Howland

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

1981 Sixty Years of Seduction (TV Movie documentary)

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

1973 The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (TV Movie documentary) (uncredited)

1971 The Last Picture Show
Matt - Red River' (uncredited)

1965 The Love Goddesses (Documentary)
Himself

1965 The Legend of Marilyn Monroe (Documentary)
Perce Howland (uncredited)

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

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

- Episode #8.22 (1955) ... Himself

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1965: Recording of "The Glass Menagerie" for Caedmon Records with Julie Harris, Jessica Tandy and David Wayne, directed by Howard Sackler. See more »

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Alternate Names:

Monty Clift

Height:

5' 10" (1.78 m)

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If I'm not interested in the movie, the audience is not going to be. How can you interest the audience if you're not interested yourself? See more »

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Always in high demand as an actor, he turned down the role played by William Holden in Sunset Blvd. (1950) and the role of James Dean's brother in East of Eden (1955). In 1955, alone, he passed on five Broadway plays, (among them Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms"), and he turned down the films Désirée (1954), Friendly Persuasion (1956), Prince of Players (1955), Fahrenheit 451... See more »

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Often played emotionally tortured men See more »

Nickname:

Monty

Star Sign:

Libra

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