Montgomery Clift

Clift has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Blvd. 857, The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. He is interred in the Quaker Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. The relevant bill is H.R. Montgomery Clift died at the age of 45 of heart problems brought on by his drug and alcohol addictions. Curtis and actress-activist Bo Derek met with Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA) in Washington, D.C., in May 2004 to discuss protecting horses. He turned down the starring roles in East of Eden and Sunset Blvd.. Other notable roles include:.

He needed reconstructive surgery on his face, but returned to acting and to stardom. He is probably best known for his role in the 1959 film Some Like It Hot, co-starring with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. In 1956, while filming Raintree County, he smashed his car into a tree, and only quick thinking by co-star Elizabeth Taylor, who pulled two teeth out of his throat to keep him from choking, saved his life. His earliest credited role is in the 1949 film City Across the River. But the public never knew until after his death that he was a bisexual, and his guilt over this led to his continuing alcoholism and drug use. He was also married to actress Christine Kaufmann in the 1960s. Amazingly, Clift was nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar for Judgement At Nuremberg in a role that only took up seven minutes of screen time. He has been married five times; his first wife was actress Janet Leigh, with whom he fathered actress Jamie Lee Curtis.

He had a highly successful film career, performing in many Oscar-nominated roles and becoming a matinee idol for his good looks. Curtis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and received the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1995. Clift was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor that same year for The Search. Since at least the early 1980s Curtis has had a second career as a painter. He achieved success on the stage and starred there for ten years before moving to Hollywood, debuting in 1948's Red River opposite John Wayne. Curtis has also appeared frequently on television; he co-starred with Roger Moore in the TV series The Persuaders. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Clift appeared on Broadway at the age of thirteen. June 3, 1925 in the Bronx, New York), an actor who has appeared in over 100 films since 1949.

Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 - July 23, 1966) was an American actor. Tony Curtis is the stage name of Bernard Schwartz (b. The Defector. a stunt man in The Great Race (1965). Freud. Ferdinand Waldo Demara, the title role of The Great Impostor (1962); and. Judgment at Nuremberg. appearing as Antoninus in Spartacus (1960);.

The Misfits. Navy Lieutenant Nicholas Holden from that equally famous pink submarine SeaTiger in Operation Petticoat (1959);. Wild River. his Oscar-nominated role in The Defiant Ones (1958);. Suddenly, Last Summer. press agent Sidney Falco in Sweet Smell of Success (1957);. Lonelyhearts. Harry Houdini in the 1953 film Houdini;.

The Young Lions. Raintree County. From Here to Eternity. Indescretion of an American Wife.

I Confess. A Place in the Sun. The Big Lift. The Heiress.

Red River. The Search. 1949 - Best Actor in a Leading Role - The Search. 1952 - Best Actor in a Leading Role - A Place in the Sun.

1954 - Best Actor in a Leading Role - From Here to Eternity. 1962 - Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Judgment at Nuremberg.