Edward Montgomery Clift was born on October 17, 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska and died on July 23, 1966. He was an American Academy Award-nominated actor known by the stage name of Montgomery Clift.

At the age of 13, Monty appeared on Broadway and chose to remain in the New York theatre for over a decade before being drawn into film. He gained excellent theatrical notices and soon attracted the interests of numerous lovelorn actresses.

His most notable roles, for which he was also Oscar-nominated, were in the films The Search (1948), A Place In the Sun (1951), and The Misfits (1961). Clift is also known for the turmoil in his private life. His sexual preference was the subject of much speculation and he sometimes drank heavily, especially after a 1957 car crash that broke his jaw and nose and damaged his face badly.

Clift and Elizabeth Taylor had a famous friendship and co-starred in the films A Place in the Sun (1951), Raintree Country (1957) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959).

He received four Academy Award Nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), but never won.

Montgomery Clift died in 1966 at the age of 45 of a heart attack brought on by complications of his severe drug and alcohol addictions.

Filmography

• The Defector (1966)
• Freud (1962)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
• The Misfits (1961)
• Wild River (1960)
• Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
• The Young Lions (1958)
• Lonelyhearts (1958)
• Raintree County (1957)
• From Here to Eternity (1953)
• Stazione Termini (1953)
• I Confess (1953)
• A Place in the Sun (1951)
• The Big Lift (1950)
• The Heiress (1949)
• Red River (1948)
• The Search (1948)
• Hay Fever (1939)