---
name: "Montgomery Clift"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/montgomery-clift"
fi1m_id: "montgomery-clift"
imdb_id: "nm0001050"
tmdb_id: 12151
wikidata_id: "Q193102"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 October 1920"
died: "23 July 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 85
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-02T22:53:00.736255+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Montgomery Clift

## Identity

Montgomery Clift

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/montgomery-clift
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** montgomery-clift
- **IMDb ID:** nm0001050
- **TMDB ID:** 12151
- **Wikidata ID:** Q193102
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Clift, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193102, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001050/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12151

Actor. Born 17 October 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Died 23 July 1966.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 October 1920, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- **Died:** 23 July 1966
- **Active:** 1948–1961
- **Also known as:** Edward Montgomery Clift, Monty Clift, Монтгомери Клифт
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 6: 5 acting, 1 other
- **Frequently works with:** [Burt Lancaster](https://film.one/person/burt-lancaster.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 4 Oscar nominations
- **Average Fi1m score:** 85, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 89 (2), 1950s 82 (2), 1960s 82 (1), 2010s 76 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 85 to 80 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 5 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 4 of 5 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Romance 3, History 2, Crime 1, War 1, Western 1
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $59m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Clift, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193102, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001050/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12151

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*From Here to Eternity*](https://film.one/film/from-here-to-eternity.md) (83), [*Judgment at Nuremberg*](https://film.one/film/judgment-at-nuremberg.md) (82)
- **Tubi:** [*Red River*](https://film.one/film/red-river.md) (88)
- **Apple TV:** [*Listen to Me Marlon*](https://film.one/film/listen-to-me-marlon.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Montgomery Clift was an American actor. Born Edward Montgomery Clift on 17 October 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska, he died on 23 July 1966.

He began his career on Broadway in the mid-1930s. His film debut came in The Search (1948), for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Further nominations followed for A Place in the Sun (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). He is also known for roles in Red River (1948), The Heiress (1949), The Young Lions (1958), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), Wild River (1960) and The Misfits (1961). A serious car accident in 1956 affected his later work.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

### Performed in (5) — the average rests on these

- *Judgment at Nuremberg* (1961), Fi1m 82, as Rudolph Petersen — [page](https://film.one/film/judgment-at-nuremberg.md)
- *From Here to Eternity* (1953), Fi1m 83, as Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt — [page](https://film.one/film/from-here-to-eternity.md)
- *A Place in the Sun* (1951), Fi1m 81, as George Eastman — [page](https://film.one/film/a-place-in-the-sun.md)
- *The Heiress* (1949), Fi1m 90, as Morris Townsend — [page](https://film.one/film/the-heiress.md)
- *Red River* (1948), Fi1m 88, as Matthew Garth — [page](https://film.one/film/red-river.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Listen to Me Marlon* (2015), Fi1m 76, as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/listen-to-me-marlon.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Starring Sigmund Freud* (2012), as (archive footage)
- *Edith Head: The Paramount Years* (2002), as (archive footage)
- *Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage* (1994), as Dr. Cukrowicz (archive footage)
- *Gay! Gay! Hollywood* (1994), Actor
- *Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths* (1990), as (archive footage)
- *Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies* (1988), as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey* (1985), as (archive footage)
- *The Defector* (1966), as Professor James Bower
- *Freud: The Secret Passion* (1962), as Sigmund Freud
- *Judgment at Nuremberg* (1961), as Rudolph Petersen — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/judgment-at-nuremberg.md)
- *The Misfits* (1961), as Perce Howland
- *Wild River* (1960), as Chuck Glover
- *Suddenly, Last Summer* (1959), as Dr. Cukrowicz
- *Lonelyhearts* (1959), as Adam White
- *The Young Lions* (1958), as Noah Ackerman
- *Raintree County* (1957), as John Wickliff Shawnessy
- *From Here to Eternity* (1953), as Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/from-here-to-eternity.md)
- *Indiscretion of an American Wife* (1953), as Giovanni Doria
- *I Confess* (1953), as Fr. Michael William Logan
- *A Place in the Sun* (1951), as George Eastman — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/a-place-in-the-sun.md)
- *The Big Lift* (1950), as Sgt. 1st Class Danny MacCullough
- *The Heiress* (1949), as Morris Townsend — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/the-heiress.md)
- *Red River* (1948), as Matthew Garth — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/red-river.md)
- *The Search* (1948), as Ralph Stevenson

## Gallery

- ![Montgomery Clift](https://film.one/media/person/104820/gallery-f498ce8a15f8.jpg) Montgomery Clift — The original uploader was Prew at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Montgomery_Clift_in_I_Confess.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Theatrical poster for the initial US theatrical release of the 1951 film A Place in the Sun.](https://film.one/media/person/104820/gallery-8cd9e6a3dd0d.jpg) Theatrical poster for the initial US theatrical release of the 1951 film A Place in the Sun. — Designer unknown. "Copyright 1951 Paramount Pictures Corporation.", Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/A_Place_in_the_Sun_%281951_poster%29.jpg/1280px-A_Place_in_the_Sun_%281951_poster%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Theatrical poster for the US theatrical re-release of the 1951 film A Place in the Sun. (1959)](https://film.one/media/person/104820/gallery-70a4e1582ae1.jpg) Theatrical poster for the US theatrical re-release of the 1951 film A Place in the Sun. (1959) — Designer unknown. "Copyright 1959 by Paramount Pictures Corporation.", Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/A_Place_in_the_Sun_%281959_reissue_poster%29.jpg/1280px-A_Place_in_the_Sun_%281959_reissue_poster%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Promotional photograph for the Broadway production of Dame Nature, starring Montgomery Clift and Lois Hall (1938)](https://film.one/media/person/104820/gallery-df9bd00dd207.jpg) Promotional photograph for the Broadway production of Dame Nature, starring Montgomery Clift and Lois Hall (1938) — Stage Publishing Company, Inc., photograph by Vandamm Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Clift-Hall-Dame-Nature-1938.jpg/1280px-Clift-Hall-Dame-Nature-1938.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Montgomery Clift](https://film.one/media/person/104820/gallery-e21e60c4cc0a.jpg) Montgomery Clift — Image via TMDB
- ![Montgomery Clift](https://film.one/media/person/104820/gallery-58fa819071e3.jpg) Montgomery Clift — Image via TMDB
- ![Montgomery Clift](https://film.one/media/person/104820/gallery-11887f2fa154.jpg) Montgomery Clift — Image via TMDB
- ![Havi Schanz celebrates the Golden Age of cinema with striking portraits of Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Cary Grant, Marlon Brando, Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/104820/gallery-154b1fd6cef7.jpg) Havi Schanz celebrates the Golden Age of cinema with striking portraits of Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Cary Grant, Marlon Brando, Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift (2014) — Haviart, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Divos_Collection_by_Havi_Schanz.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (1951).](https://film.one/media/person/104820/gallery-b7b01f4d7cd9.jpg) Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (1951). — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Elizabeth_Taylor_%26_Montgomery_Clift.jpg/1280px-Elizabeth_Taylor_%26_Montgomery_Clift.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Montgomery Clift](https://film.one/media/person/104820/gallery-8f6ce138607d.jpg) Montgomery Clift — Image via TMDB
- ![Montgomery Clift](https://film.one/media/person/104820/gallery-c563b759f666.jpg) Montgomery Clift — Image via TMDB
- ![Montgomery Clift](https://film.one/media/person/104820/gallery-06c932f850da.jpg) Montgomery Clift — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 4 nominated

- 1962: Best Supporting Actor (nominated), for *Judgment at Nuremberg*
- 1954: Best Actor (nominated), for *From Here to Eternity*
- 1952: Best Actor (nominated), for *A Place in the Sun*
- 1949: Best Actor (nominated), for *The Search*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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