FrameThrower · Actors · Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift
4 films · 322 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1948–2024
Born 17 October 1920 · Omaha, Nebraska, USA · died 23 July 1966
Edward Montgomery “Monty” Clift was an American actor of the Golden Age, known for often playing sensitive or conflicted outcast characters with realistic emotional depth and anxieties.
Clift, Marlon Brando and James Dean are the trio typically associated with the new wave of film acting, with Clift being the oldest and first to make his stage and screen debuts. Starting at age 14, he was a breakout talent on Broadway throughout 1935-1945. He finally accepted one of many Hollywood offers: starring in the Western “Red River” which was filmed in 1946 but delayed release for 2 years.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 322 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1948–2024
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 322 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Montgomery takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 60% of their frames are day, 44% natural — the look of the work Montgomery takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 322 frames from Montgomery Clift's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.