Montgomery Clift

Also known as Monty Clift, Edward Montgomery Clift

American actor (1920–1966)

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Montgomery Clift was an American male stage and film actor, screenwriter, and actor. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1920, he began his work period in 1935. Clift was educated at the Actors Studio and studied under Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan. He spoke English and was a citizen of the United States.

Clift received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His archives are held at the New York Public Library Main Branch. He had a sibling named Eleanor Clift.

Clift died of natural causes due to a myocardial infarction in New York City on July 23, 1966. He stood 177 units in height.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 1

Top works

Indiscretion Of An American Wife

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Film & TV

Acting · Omaha, Nebraska, USA

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…

Known for

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes — Self (archive footage)2024
Rat Pack — Self (archive footage)2022
Making Montgomery Clift — Self (archive footage)2018
The Fabulous Allan Carr — Self (archive)2017
Listen to Me Marlon — Self (archive footage)2015
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire — Self - Actor (archive footage)2014
Starring Sigmund Freud — (archive footage)2012
Marilyn at the Movies — Self (archive footage)2011
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess — Self (archive footage)2004
Edith Head: The Paramount Years — (archive footage)2002

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 107
Total plays: 289

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

General atomic and molecular electronic structure system
· 1993 · cited 19,129x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
· 1998 · cited 12,383x
A New Depression Scale Designed to be Sensitive to Change
· 1979 · cited 11,622x
Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases
· 2009 · cited 6,987x

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Encyclopedic overview

Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor. A four-time Academy Award nominee, he was known for his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men", according to The New York Times.

He is best remembered for his roles in Howard Hawks's Red River (1948), George Stevens's A Place in the Sun (1951), Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity (1953), Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and John Huston's The Misfits (1961).

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