Montgomery Clift
American actor (1920-1966) · United States · Actors · Died at 45
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Something wrong?He rewrote the contract before anyone knew what leverage was, turned down studio deals until the work proved him right, and died at 45 with four Oscar nominations and a face the camera loved then couldn't look away from even after it changed.
A life in dates
The DefectorFilm, 1966Professor James Bower1962
The Merv Griffin ShowSeries1961
Judgment at NurembergFilm, Rudolph Petersen1959
The David Susskind ShowSeries
LonelyheartsFilm, 1959Adam White1957
Operation RaintreeFilm1950
What's My Line?Series
The Big LiftFilm, 1950Sgt. 1st Class Danny MacCullough1948
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries
Red RiverFilm, 1948Matthew Garth1920Born17 October 1920Also in Deutsch
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Montgomery Clift in I Confess
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Montgomery Clift in The Search trailer
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A Place in the Sun (1959 reissue poster)
A Place in the sun premiere
Backstage photo on the set of Red RiverFilmography 40
ETElizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
RPRat Pack
MCMaking Montgomery Clift
TCThe Fabulous Allan Carr
LMListen to Me Marlon
MDMarlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
HCHitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
EYEdith Head: The Paramount Years
MMMaking 'The Misfits'
GSGeorge Stevens and His Place In The Sun
SMSir John Mills' Moving Memories
TLThe Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
GHGay! Gay! Hollywood
TSTennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
HDHollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
HTHollywood Scandals and Tragedies
EMEve and Marilyn
MSMontgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
GJGeorge Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
MCMontgomery Clift
THThe Men Who Made the Movies: Howard HawksTDThe Defector
FPFreud: The Secret PassionJNJudgment at Nuremberg
TMThe Misfits
WRWild River
SSSuddenly, Last SummerLOLonelyhearts
TLThe Young Lions
RCRaintree CountyOROperation Raintree
FEFrom Here to Eternity
ICI Confess
IWIndiscretion of an American Wife
ASA Place in the SunTLThe Big Lift
THThe HeiressRRRed River
TSThe Search46 credits on file
Television 4
TSThe Merv Griffin ShowTSThe David Susskind ShowWLWhat's My Line?TSThe Ed Sullivan ShowAwards
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Edward Montgomery Clift arrived in Hollywood already certain of his value: he refused to sign until Red River and A Place in the Sun were both finished and both hits, creating a template for star power that held for decades. The New York Times called him the face of "moody, sensitive young men," and he delivered that in From Here to Eternity, Judgment at Nuremberg, and The Misfits, working alongside Brando and Dean as one of the first method actors - though he hated the label. Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan invited him into the Actors Studio early, and he brought a raw interior life to the screen that hadn't been there before. He collected four Academy Award nominations and left at 45, in 1966, with the architecture of modern screen acting partly built on his terms.
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