ACTOR

Montgomery Clift

1920 - 1966

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Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Montgomery Clift has received more than 8,236,538 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Montgomery Clift is the 396th most popular actor (down from 242nd in 2019), the 716th most popular biography from United States (down from 447th in 2019) and the 195th most popular American Actor.

Montgomery Clift was an American actor who is most famous for playing the role of a sensitive, introspective man in such films as A Place in the Sun, The Heiress, and From Here to Eternity.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Montgomery Clift ranks 396 out of 13,578. Before him are Hattie McDaniel, Kevin Bacon, Sally Field, Bolo Yeung, Lee Marvin, and Vincent Cassel. After him are Bibi Andersson, Edwin Booth, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Danny Glover, and John Lithgow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Montgomery Clift ranks 32. Before him are Nicolaas Bloembergen, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, François Jacob, Zecharia Sitchin, Fritz Walter, and Clarice Lispector. After him are Walter Matthau, Douglass North, Sergei Bondarchuk, John Demjanjuk, Alberto Sordi, and Ravi Shankar. Among people deceased in 1966, Montgomery Clift ranks 23. Before him are Felix Steiner, Cemal Gürsel, George de Hevesy, Dietrich von Choltitz, Vincent Auriol, and Guillermo Stábile. After him are Célestin Freinet, Paul Reynaud, Albert Göring, Carlo Carrà, Abdul Salam Arif, and Rolf Maximilian Sievert.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Montgomery Clift ranks 716 out of 20,380. Before him are Kenny Rogers (1938), John Deere (1804), Benjamin Thompson (1753), Jared Diamond (1937), Robert H. Goddard (1882), and Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903). After him are Edwin Booth (1833), Robert Nozick (1938), Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), Warren Beatty (1937), Karl Malden (1912), and Walter Hill (1942).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Montgomery Clift ranks 195. Before him are Jack Palance (1919), Anne Bancroft (1931), Hattie McDaniel (1893), Kevin Bacon (1958), Sally Field (1946), and Lee Marvin (1924). After him are Edwin Booth (1833), Warren Beatty (1937), Karl Malden (1912), Danny Glover (1946), John Lithgow (1945), and Doris Day (1922).

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Television and Movie Roles

I Confess
Fr. Michael William Logan
Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.
Feb 13o 19537.1 / 10
A Place in the Sun
George Eastman
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
Jun 12o 19517.301 / 10
From Here to Eternity
Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Aug 28o 19537.3 / 10