Cast & creator
Montgomery Clift
Best known for The Merv Griffin Show, What's My Line?, The Ed Sullivan Show
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.
Also known as: Edward Montgomery Clift, Monty Clift, Монтгомери Клифт
42
film credits
4
television credits
46
1948–2024 · acting roles
6.9
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (46)
Showing 46 of 46 credits
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
The David Susskind Show
Self
1959
Judgment at Nuremberg
Rudolph Petersen
1961
A Place in the Sun
George Eastman
1951
The Misfits
Perce Howland
1961
From Here to Eternity
Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
1953
I Confess
Fr. Michael William Logan
1953
The Young Lions
Noah Ackerman
1958
Red River
Matthew Garth
1948
Suddenly, Last Summer
Dr. Cukrowicz
1959
The Heiress
Morris Townsend
1949
Listen to Me Marlon
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Self (archive footage)
2024
Raintree County
John Wickliff Shawnessy
1957
Freud: The Secret Passion
Sigmund Freud
1962
Wild River
Chuck Glover
1960
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive footage)
2017
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2014
The Defector
Professor James Bower
1966
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Self (archive footage)
1973
The Search
Ralph Stevenson
1948
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Giovanni Doria
1953
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
2022
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
(archive footage)
2002
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
1997
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Dr. Cukrowicz (archive footage)
1994
The Big Lift
Sgt. 1st Class Danny MacCullough
1950
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
(archive footage)
1985
Marilyn at the Movies
Self (archive footage)
2011
Operation Raintree
Self
1957
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self (archive footage)
2000
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
George Stevens and His Place In The Sun
Self (archive footage)
2001
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Self (archive footage)
1990
Making 'The Misfits'
Self (archive footage)
2002
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
Self (archive footage)
1987William Faulkner's Mississippi
Self - Narrator
1965
Making Montgomery Clift
Self (archive footage)
2018
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
Self (archive footage)
2004
Lonelyhearts
Adam White
1959Starring Sigmund Freud
(archive footage)
2012
Montgomery Clift
Self (archive footage)
1983
Gay! Gay! Hollywood
1994
Eve and Marilyn
Self (archive photo)
1987