Montgomery Clift

Also known as Monty Clift, Edward Montgomery Clift

American actor (1920–1966)

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Montgomery Clift was an American actor who lived from 1920 to 1966 and became one of Hollywood's most acclaimed performers of the mid-20th century. He is remembered as an influential figure in cinema history, known for bringing a new style of intense, naturalistic acting to the screen during Hollywood's golden age.

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Indiscretion Of An American Wife

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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…

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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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A global reference for human genetic variation
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Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
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A New Depression Scale Designed to be Sensitive to Change
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Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases
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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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