Montgomery Clift

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Biography

Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920–July 23, 1966) was an American film actor. He was known for brooding, sensitive, working-class character roles, and received four Academy Award nominati... [more]

Trivia

In Italy, most of his early films were dubbed by Giulio Panicali, then by Giuseppe Rinaldi. He was occasionally dubbed by Gianfranco Bellini (in The Search (1948) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)), Nando Gazzolo (in The Young Lions (1958)) and once by Pino Locchi in Raintree County (1957).
Son of William Brooks Clift and wife Ethel Anderson Fogg, an illegitimate daughter of Woodbury Blair by Maria Latham Anderson, both of whom had Dutch American ancestry. Woodbury Blair was the son of Montgomery Blair, after whom his great-grandson received his middle name, and wife Mary Elizabeth Woodbury, daughter of Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), US Supreme Court, and wife Elizabeth Wendell Clapp.

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Quotes

I don`t want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do, not what we say we are.

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Snapshot

Date of Birth: 17th of October, 1920
Died: 23rd of July, 1966 (aged 45)
Occupation: Actor
Height: 5' 10" (178cm)
Claim to Fame: A Place In The Sun (1951) .... George Eastman
Eye Colour: Brown - Dark
Cause of Death: Coronary Occlusion
Gender: Male
Nationality: United States
Ethnicity: White
Alternative Names:
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