Actor Montgomery Clift was born October 17, 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska. His film debut was in Howard Hawks's 1948 western, Red River. Clift co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun, Raintree County, and Suddenly, Last Summer. A near-fatal auto accident in 1957 changed his looks and sent him into drug and alcohol addiction. Clift died in 1966.