George Montgomery
- Schauspiel
- 29. August 1916 · Brady, Montana, USA
- 12. Dezember 2000
Biografie
George Montgomery was boxing champion at the University of Montana, where he majored in architecture and interior design. Dropping out a year later, he decided to take up boxing more seriously, and moved to California, where he was coached by ex-heavyweight world champion James J. Jeffries. While in Hollywood, he came to the attention of the studios (not least, because he was an expert rider) and was hired as a stuntman in 1935. After doing this for four years, George was offered a contract at 20th Century Fox in 1939, but found himself largely confined to leads in B-westerns. He did not secure a part in anything even remotely like a prestige picture, until his co-starring role in Roxie Hart (1942), opposite Ginger Rogers. Next, in Orchestra Wives (1942), he played the perfunctory love interest for Ann Rutherford -- though both, inevitably, ended up playing second trombone to Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. In 1947, George got his first serious break, being cast as Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe, in The Brasher Doubloon (1947). Reviewers, however, compared his performance unfavourably with that of Humphrey Bogart and found the film 'pallid' overall. So it was back to the saddle for George. Unable to shake his image as a cowboy actor, he starred in scores of films with titles like Belle Starr's Daughter (1948), Dakota Lil (1950), Jack McCall Desperado (1953) and Masterson of Kansas (1954) at Columbia, and for producer Edward Small at United Artists. When not cleaning up the Wild West with his six-shooter, he branched out into adventure films set in exotic locales (notably as Harry Quartermain in Watusi (1959)). During the 60's, he also wrote, directed and starred in several long-forgotten, low-budget wartime potboilers made in the Philippines. At the height of his popularity, George attracted as much publicity for his acting, as for his liaisons with glamorous stars, like Ginger Rogers, Hedy Lamarr (to whom he was briefly engaged) and singer Dinah Shore (whom he married in 1943). After his retirement from the film business, he devoted himself to his love of painting, furniture-making and sculpting bronze busts, including one of his close friend Ronald Reagan.
Bekannt aus
Filmografie
- Ransom · Inspector Marks
- Elf kleine Insulaner · The President
- Commando Wild Wind · Major Nestorovic
- When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion · Selbst
- Dinah! · Selbst
- Der sechs Millionen Dollar Mann · Christopher Bell / Garth
- Highway Inferno · Paul Tunney
- Alias Smith und Jones
- Männerwirtschaft · Griff
- Satan's Harvest · Cutter Murdock, Regie
- Tödliches Roulett
- Strangers at Sunrise · Grant Merrick
- ...die im Staub verbluten · Col. John Hannegan
- Bomben um 10 Uhr 10 · Steve Corbett / Stiv Korbet
- Texas Desperados · Gid McCool
- Hallucination Generation · Eric, Special Effects
- Die letzte Schlacht · Sgt. Duquesne
- El proscrito del río Colorado · Pat O'Brien
- Die Hölle von Borneo · John Dirkson, Regie
- Guerillas in Pink Lace · Murphy, Regie
- Der Rebell von Palawan · Dr. John David Saunders, Regie
- The Mike Douglas Show · Selbst
- Der Mann mit der stählernen Klaue · Capt. John Larsen, Regie
- Fest im Sattel · Randy Burke
- Watusi · Harry Quartermain
- Cimarron City · Mayor Matt Rockford
- Der Teufel holt sie alle · Pat Garrett
- In Tombstone ist der Teufel los · Capt. Matt Sloane
- Männer, die in Stiefeln sterben · Dan Beattie
- Der Einäugige · Clay Morgan
- Die Attacke am Rio Morte · Paul 'Pale Arrow' Fletcher
- Street of Sinners · John Dean
- Die Würfel sind gefallen · Will Sabre
- Tot oder lebendig · Dan Barton
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show · Selbst
- Feuer über Mindanao · Greg Dickson
- Schlucht des Grauens · Steve Patrick
- The Steve Allen Show · Selbst
- Claire · Dr. Stanley Wayne
- Desperados · Jim 'Tex' Wall
- Häuptling Schwarzer Pfeil · Cam Elliott
- Gangster, Spieler und ein Sheriff · Bat Masterson
- Battle of Rogue River · Maj. Frank Archer
- Gegen Terror und Banditen · Cruze
- Überfall in Texas · Billy Ringo
- Fort Ti · Capt. Jed Horn
- Der letzte Trumpf · Jack McCall
- General Electric Theater · Jim Corbett, Buchanan Smith
- Sein Freund, der Lederstrumpf · Pathfinder
- This Is Your Life · Selbst
- Zwei räumen auf · Bret Ivers / Iverson
- Teufel der weißen Berge · Capt. Chase McCloud
- Grenzpolizei in Texas · Johnny Carver
- Das Schwert von Monte Christo · Captain Renault
- Auf Winnetous Spuren · Nat Cutler / Hawkeye
- Geheimagent in Wildwest · Tom Horn / Steve Garrett
- What's My Line? · Selbst
- Auf dem Kriegspfad · Davy Crockett
- Die Tochter der Prärie · Marshal Tom Jackson
- Studio One · Bakeland
- The Girl from Manhattan · Rev. Tom Walker
- Lulu Belle · George Davis
- The Brasher Doubloon · Philip Marlowe
- Three Little Girls in Blue · Van Damm Smith
- Strange Affair · Set Decoration
- Take It or Leave It · (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure · Lt. Warren
- Bomber's Moon · Capt. Jeffrey Dakin
- Coney Island · Eddie Johnson
- China Girl · Johnny Williams
- Orchestra Wives · Bill Abbot
- 10 Leutnants von West-Point · Joe Dawson
- Roxie Hart · Homer Howard
- Cadet Girl · Tex Mallory
- Riders of the Purple Sage · Lassiter
- Last of the Duanes · Buck Duane
- Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 · Selbst
- Accent on Love · John Worth Hyndman
- The Cowboy and the Blonde · Lank Garrett
- Jennie · Franz Schermer