Movies List
TV Show List
The Daredevil

as Paul Tunney

1972
Warkill

as Col. John Hannegan

1968
Hostile Guns

as Gid McCool

1967
Battle of the Bulge

as Sgt. Duquesne

1965
Django the Condemned

as Pat O'Brien

1965
The Steel Claw

as Capt. John Larsen

1961
Watusi

as Harry Quartermain

1959
King of the Wild Stallions

as Randy Burke

1959
Man from God's Country

as Dan Beattie

1958
Pawnee

as Paul 'Pale Arrow' Fletcher

1957
Black Patch

as Clay Morgan

1957
Last of the Badmen

as Dan Barton

1957
Huk!

as Greg Dickson

1956
Robbers' Roost

as Jim 'Tex' Wall

1955
Masterson of Kansas

as Bat Masterson

1954
The Lone Gun

as Cruze

1954
Battle of Rogue River

as Maj. Frank Archer

1954
Gun Belt

as Billy Ringo

1953
Cripple Creek

as Bret Ivers / Iverson

1952
The Pathfinder

as Pathfinder

1952
Indian Uprising

as Capt. Chase McCloud

1952
The Sword of Monte Cristo

as Captain Renault

1951
The Texas Rangers

as Johnny Carver

1951
Davy Crockett, Indian Scout

as Davy Crockett

1950
Dakota Lil

as Tom Horn / Steve Garrett

1950
The Iroquois Trail

as Nat Cutler / Hawkeye

1950
The Girl from Manhattan

as Rev. Tom Walker

1948
Belle Starr's Daughter

as Marshal Tom Jackson

1948
George Montgomery George Montgomery

Birthday

1916-08-29

Place of Birth

Biography

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.
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