Cast
George Montgomery
Acting
Cast
George Montgomery
Known for
Acting
Born
1916-08-29
From
Brady, Montana, USA
Died
2000-12-12
Also known as Douglas K. Stone, George Montgomery Letz, George Letz
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.
★6.9
MOVIE1965
Battle of the Bulge
as Sgt. Duquesne
★5.4
MOVIE1942
China Girl
as Johnny Williams
★5.0
MOVIE1948
Lulu Belle
as George Davis
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Roxie Hart
as Homer Howard
★5.2
MOVIE1956
Huk!
as Greg Dickson
★6.8
MOVIE1938
Army Girl
as Soldier
★5.8
MOVIE1939
Wall Street Cowboy
as Cowhand
★5.3
MOVIE1940
Young People
as Mike Shea
★7.0
MOVIE1953
Fort Ti
as Capt. Jed Horn
★5.6
MOVIE1954
The Lone Gun
as Cruze
★5.8
MOVIE1939
The Night Riders
as Mob Member
★5.4
MOVIE1961
The Steel Claw
as Capt. John Larsen
★7.0
MOVIE1956
Claire
as Dr. Stanley Wayne
★5.2
MOVIE1950
Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
as Davy Crockett
★5.0
MOVIE1958
Man from God's Country
as Dan Beattie
★6.4
MOVIE1953
Gun Belt
as Billy Ringo
★6.3
MOVIE1964
Guerillas in Pink Lace
as Murphy
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Last of the Duanes
as Buck Duane
★6.3
MOVIE1943
Coney Island
as Eddie Johnson
★5.9
MOVIE1957
Black Patch
as Clay Morgan
★7.0
MOVIE1941
The Cowboy and the Blonde
as Lank Garrett
★6.0
MOVIE1939
South of the Border
as Bandit
★6.1
MOVIE1951
The Texas Rangers
as Johnny Carver
★6.8
MOVIE1939
S.O.S Tidal Wave
★5.5
MOVIE1939
Southward Ho!
★6.0
MOVIE1952
Cripple Creek
as Bret Ivers / Iverson
★8.0
MOVIE1970
Ride the Tiger
★7.0
MOVIE1962
Samar
as Dr. John David Saunders
★5.6
MOVIE1957
Gun Duel in Durango
as Will Sabre
★5.6
MOVIE1958
Badman's Country
as Pat Garrett
★5.8
MOVIE1959
Watusi
as Harry Quartermain
★10.0
MOVIE1940
Jennie
as Franz Schermer
★5.7
MOVIE1940
Star Dust
as Ronnie
★6.5
MOVIE1942
Orchestra Wives
as Bill Abbot
★6.0
MOVIE1947
The Brasher Doubloon
as Philip Marlowe
★6.5
MOVIE1956
Canyon River
as Steve Patrick
★6.0
MOVIE1944
Take It or Leave It
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
★4.8
MOVIE1952
The Pathfinder
as Pathfinder
★6.0
MOVIE1954
Battle of Rogue River
as Maj. Frank Archer
★4.6
MOVIE1951
The Sword of Monte Cristo
as Captain Renault
★6.2
MOVIE1957
Pawnee
as Paul 'Pale Arrow' Fletcher
★5.6
MOVIE1967
Bomb at 10:10
as Steve Corbett / Stiv Korbet
★6.3
MOVIE1939
In Old Monterey
as Soldier
★7.0
MOVIE1938
The Lone Ranger
as Jim Clark
★5.3
MOVIE1939
Rough Riders' Round-up
as Patrolman Joe
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as Joe Dawson
★5.4
MOVIE1939
The Cisco Kid and the Lady
as Tommy Bates
MOVIE1944
Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure
as Lt. Warren
★5.1
MOVIE1948
Belle Starr's Daughter
as Marshal Tom Jackson
★6.8
MOVIE1959
King of the Wild Stallions
as Randy Burke
★7.7
MOVIE1957
Street of Sinners
as John Dean
★6.7
MOVIE1939
Saga of Death Valley
as Henchman
★8.0
MOVIE1941
Cadet Girl
as Tex Mallory
★7.3
MOVIE1946
Three Little Girls in Blue
as Van Damm Smith
★6.0
MOVIE1939
In Old Caliente
as Henchman
★5.7
MOVIE1970
Satan's Harvest
as Cutter Murdock
★5.5
MOVIE1937
Springtime in the Rockies
as Cowhand at Dance (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Hi-Yo Silver
as Jim Clark
★6.5
MOVIE1952
Indian Uprising
as Capt. Chase McCloud
★6.8
MOVIE1957
Last of the Badmen
as Dan Barton
★5.4
MOVIE1939
The Mysterious Miss X
as Policeman
★6.1
MOVIE1954
Masterson of Kansas
as Bat Masterson
★5.9
MOVIE1955
Robbers' Roost
as Jim 'Tex' Wall
★6.1
MOVIE1939
The Arizona Kid
as Soldier
★5.6
MOVIE1967
Hostile Guns
as Gid McCool
★5.0
MOVIE1955
Seminole Uprising
as Cam Elliott
★6.6
MOVIE1950
The Iroquois Trail
as Nat Cutler / Hawkeye
★6.5
MOVIE1958
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
as Capt. Matt Sloane
★6.5
MOVIE1943
Bomber's Moon
as Capt. Jeffrey Dakin
MOVIE1979
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1972
The Daredevil
as Paul Tunney
★5.0
MOVIE1939
Frontier Pony Express
as Lieutenant Harris
★4.5
MOVIE1985
Wild Wind
as Major Nestorovic
★4.0
MOVIE1966
Hallucination Generation
as Eric
★3.7
MOVIE1965
Django the Condemned
as Pat O'Brien
★5.4
MOVIE1950
Dakota Lil
as Tom Horn / Steve Garrett
★6.3
MOVIE1948
The Girl from Manhattan
as Rev. Tom Walker
★5.7
MOVIE1964
Hell of Borneo
as John Dirkson
★6.0
MOVIE1953
Jack McCall, Desperado
as Jack McCall
MOVIE1941
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
as Self
★7.5
MOVIE1941
Accent on Love
as John Worth Hyndman
★8.0
MOVIE1940
Charter Pilot
as Charlie Crane
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Riders of the Purple Sage
as Lassiter
★8.0
MOVIE1968
Warkill
as Col. John Hannegan
★5.0
MOVIE1988
Ransom
as Inspector Marks
★4.5
MOVIE1969
Strangers at Sunrise
as Grant Merrick