Edward Montgomery (Monty) Clift

Edward Montgomery (Monty) Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966)

He is remembered for such roles as the social climber in A Place in the Sun, the anguished Catholic priest in I Confess, and the doomed regular soldier in From Here to Eternity. Later, after a car crash in 1956 that scarred Clift's face, and alcohol and prescription drug abuse, he became erratic. Nevertheless, he continued his acting career, playing in The Misfits with Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe. In 1961, Clift portrayed Rudolph Peterson, an emotionally unstable and physically tortured concentration camp victim in the Stanley Kramer film Judgment at Nuremberg, earning a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Unfortunately, the years of drug and alcohol abuse ended Clift's life, when he died of a heart attack at age 45. Montgomery Clift is buried at in the Friends [Quaker] Cemetery, Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, NY.