Montgomery Clift (Actor)

Reviews of Montgomery Clift Movies

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Movies starring Montgomery Clift have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 70%.

Red River - released in 1948 - is Montgomery Clift's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 287 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Montgomery Clift is The Defector - released in 1966 - with a score of 43% based on 5 reviews.

Actor Biography

Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor. The New York Times’ obituary noted his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men".

He invariably played outsiders, often "victim-heroes" - examples include the social climber in George Stevens' A Place in the Sun, the anguished Catholic priest in Hitchcock's I Confess, the doomed regular soldier Robert E. Lee Prewitt in Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity, and the Jewish GI bullied by anti-Semites in Edward Dmytryk's The Young Lions. Later, as a result of heavy consumption of drink and prescription drugs, and after a disfiguring car crash in 1956, he became erratic. Nevertheless important roles still came to him, including "the reckless, alcoholic, mother-fixated rodeo performer in Huston's The Misfits, the title role in Huston's Freud, and the concentration camp victim in Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg."

Clift received four Academy Award nominations during his career, three for Best Actor and one for Best Supporting Actor.

Montgomery Clift has acted in films with Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Shelley Winters and Kenner G. Kemp.

Montgomery Clift has worked with these film directors: John Huston, Fred Zinnemann, Edward Dmytryk and Alfred Hitchcock.