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.

Films indisponible à partir de Montgomery Clift

Judgment at Nuremberg

Rudolph Petersen

Film 1961

Red River

Matthew Garth

Film 1948

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

Self (archive footage)

Film 2000

The Defector

Professor James Bower

Film 1966

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

(archive footage)

Film 1990

I Confess

Fr. Michael William Logan

Film 1953

The Misfits

Perce Howland

Film 1961

Freud: The Secret Passion

Sigmund Freud

Film 1962

The Search

Ralph Stevenson

Film 1948

The Big Lift

Sgt. 1st Class Danny MacCullough

Film 1950

Indiscretion of an American Wife

Giovanni Doria

Film 1953

Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star

Self (archive footage)

Film 1987

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

Self (archive footage)

Film 1973

Montgomery Clift

Self (archive footage)

Film 1983

Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess

Self (archive footage)

Film 2004

Rat Pack

Self (archive footage)

Film 2022

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

(archive footage)

Film 2002

Starring Sigmund Freud

(archive footage)

Film 2012

Listen to Me Marlon

Self (archive footage)

Film 2015

Operation Raintree

Self

Film 1957

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Dr. Cukrowicz (archive footage)

Film 1994

Making Montgomery Clift

Self (archive footage)

Film 2018

Making 'The Misfits'

Self (archive footage)

Film 2002

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Self (archive footage)

Film 1985

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

Self (archive footage)

Film 1997

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Film 2014

George Stevens and His Place In The Sun

Self (archive footage)

Film 2001

Séries TV indisponible à partir de Montgomery Clift

The David Susskind Show

Self

Tv 1959

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self

Tv 1948

What's My Line?

Self - Mystery Guest

Tv 1950