Montgomery Clift (1920-1966) was an American actor, considered one of the pioneers of Method acting in Hollywood and a performer of extraordinary sensitivity and psychological intensity.

He emerged in the 1940s with *Red River* (1948) and *The Search* (1948), but reached his peak with memorable performances in *A Place in the Sun* (1951), where he embodied the archetype of the individual tormented by society, and *From Here to Eternity* (1953), in the role of the rebellious soldier Robert E. Lee Prewitt.

Other important films include *Raintree County* (1957), *Suddenly, Last Summer* (1959), and *The Misfits* (1961), his last appearance with Marilyn Monroe. Clift excelled at portraying complex, vulnerable characters, often outsiders or victims of circumstance, defining a new type of male protagonist in cinema.