George Montgomery
George Montgomery was born in Montana, United States on August 29th, 1916 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 84, George Montgomery biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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George Montgomery (born George Montgomery Letz, 1916–2000) was an American actor, painter, writer, editor, painter, designer, painter, painter, model, furniture craftsman, and stuntman who is best known as an actor in Western film and television.
Early years
Montgomery was born George Montgomery Letz, the youngest of 15 children of German immigrant parents from Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine. He was born in Brady, north of Great Falls, in Pondera County, northern Montana. He was raised on a large ranch, where he learned to ride horses and work cattle as a part of daily life.
Letz boxed in as a heavyweight for a short time before enrolling in Missoula's University of Montana. He was involved in school athletics and majored in interior design, but he left after one year.
Personal life
Montgomery was briefly engaged to Hedy Lamarr for a short time.
Dinah Shore, a Montgomery and singer, was born on December 5, 1943. Melissa Ann "Missy" Montgomery, 1948, was their only child. In 1954, George and Dinah adopted John "Jody" Montgomery. They divorced in 1963. Missy Montgomery also became an actress.
When Montgomery's housekeeper was arrested in a botched effort to murder him, he made news. Allegedly attracted to her work, the woman planned to shoot Montgomery and then commit suicide.
Montgomery died on December 12, 2000, at the age of 84. Montgomery's ashes were divided and laid to rest at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City) near his Palm Springs home and near the Highland Cemetery in Great Falls, Montana, near his birthplace.
Career
Montgomery was more interested in filmmaking than in a college education. He left Montana for Hollywood, so he left Montana for Hollywood. He was working as a stunt man on a Greta Garbo film at MGM Conquest, Conquest, two days after his arrival. (1937)
In a 1935 Gene Autry film, The Singing Vagabond, he gained stunt work and a small acting role.
In mainly low-budget films, he continued this with bit parts and additional stunt work as "George Letz." These included springtime in the Rockies (1937) with Autry; The Purple Vigilantes (1938) with Robert Livingston; and The Lone Ranger (1938) with Autry; The Old Barn Dance (1938) with Rogers; and Under Western Stars (1938) with Autry; The Purple Vigilantes (1938) with Autry (1938) with Autry; The Black Gem (1938) with Rogers; and Under Western Stars (1938) with Bruce Roberts; and The Purple Vigilantes
They had all been Westerns. With Bruce Bennett (billed as Herman Brix, his true name) and the bigger-budgeted Army Girl (1938), he appeared in an African adventure story Hawk of the Wilderness (1938).
He appeared in 1938 as one of the six men suspected of being the titular hero of The Lone Ranger. He appeared in a photo montage of "Hollywood's Movie-Struck Kids" and said Montgomery, who is still using his full name, as "6 ft. 3 in." is a tall, weighs 210 lb., rides well and is very handsome."
In Southward Ho (1939) and The Arizona Kid (1939) with Rogers, he went back to Westerns. In those non-Westerns, like The Mysterious Miss X (1939), S.O.S., he appeared in several non-Westerns. Tidal Wave (1939), and I Was a Convict (1939), but mostly it was films like South of the Border (1939), and In Old Montego (1939), with Rogers; In Old Caliente (1939) with John Wayne. He worked on Republic's (relatively) big-budget Man of Conquest (1939).
He signed with twentieth Century Fox in 1939, which billed him as George Montgomery.
The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939), the first of the Cisco Kid series, was his first film at the studio. Montgomery came in fourth place. He appeared in Star Dust (1940) and a bigger one in Young People (1940), Shirley Temple's last film for Fox.
Montgomery was fourth-billed in a "B" about pilots, charter Pilot (1940) with Lloyd Nolan and Lynn Bari, and third-billed in Jennie (1940).
Montgomery was given leading roles in a melodrama written by Dalton Trumbo, Accent on Love (1941). In some B Westerns (1941), Riders of the Purple Sage (1941), and The Cowboy and the Blonde (1941).
Montgomery was partnered with Carole Landis in Cadet Girl (1941). When he top-lined Orchestra Wives (1942) with Ann Rutherford, a film best known today for giving Glenn Miller a role.
He appeared in Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942), with Maureen O'Hara, originally intended for Tyrone Power.
He was Ginger Rogers' love interest in Roxie Hart (1942) and appeared alongside Gene Tierney in China Girl (1942) for Henry Hathaway. Both these films were huge at the box office.
Montgomery appeared with Betty Grable in the Walter Lang-directed film Coney Island, his first hit to date. "The actor's vocal mannerisms were often uncannily reminiscent of Clark Gable," a obituary said, and his similarities to the larger celebrity became even more apparent when he grew a moustache. This was never more true in Coney Island than.
He appeared in Bomber's Moon (1943).
Montgomery was scheduled for several films directed for Fox leading men, Tyrone Power, and Henry Fonda, who had joined the Navy, such as Down the Sea to the Ships and Bird of Paradise with Tierney. However, Montgomery wound up joining the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in 1943, where he appeared in such training films as Survival of the Fittest (1944).
He returned to Fox in 1946 and appeared in a film called Three Little Girls in Blue (1946). In The Brasher Doubloon (1947), a B-picture version of Raymond Chandler's novel The High Window, Fox portrayed him as Philip Marlowe.
Montgomery was dissatisfied with Fox. Montgomery's big duet (although dubbed) with June Haver in Three Little Girls in Blue was cut, and he was assigned to a minor Western, Belle Starr's Daughter (1948). Montgomery left Fox in September 1947 after being dissatisfied with his roles.
Montgomery appeared in Lulu Belle (1948) and The Girl from Manhattan for Benedict Bogeaus.
He appeared in Davy Crockett, the Indian Scout for Edward Small in 1950, where he appeared as the principal role. Dakota Lil (1950) and The Texas Rangers (1951) for Small, but he returned to Fox for Dakota Lil (1950) and made The Iroquois Trail (1950) and The Texas Rangers (1951) for Small.
Montgomery tried a swashbuckler at Fox, The Sword of Monte Cristo (1951), then returned to Small for the Indian Uprising (1951) and Cripple Creek (1954), and The Lone Gun (1954). Sam Katzman made The Pathfinder (1952), Fort Ti (1952), Jack McCall, Desperado (1953), and Seminole Rising (1955).
Montgomery worked for other writers: Robbers' Roost (1955); Huk! (1956) a war film shot in the Philippines; Pawnee (1957) for Small; and Man from God's Country (1958) as Pat Garrett.
Montgomery appeared in his own 26-episode NBC Western series, Cimarron City, as Mayor Matt Rockford, with co-star John Smith and Audrey Totter from his own production company Mont Productions. Montgomery also turned down lead roles in the Western television series Gunsmoke and Wagon Train. Cimarron City was only around for one season.
Montgomery, a pioneer of King Solomon's Mines (1950), embarked on an Imperial journey for MGM, Watusi (1959), a sequel to King Solomon's Mines (1950). He followed it with King of the Wild Stallions (1959).
He appeared on a variety of television shows, including NBC's Bonanza and The Gisele MacKenzie Show.
Montgomery was turned director of The Steel Claw (1961), a war film shot in the Philippines that he co-wrote and in which he appeared.
He was in Samar (1962) and Guerillas in Pink Lace (1964).
Robert Lippert, a Spanish national, was supposed to make Outlaw of Red River, but it does not appear that one had been made.
He appeared in the films "British Battle of the Bulge (1965) and Django the Condemned (1966). He appeared in Hallucination Generation (1967), an anti-LSD film. Montgomery was in Bomb at 10:10 (1967), Hostile Arms (1967), Warkill (1968), and Strangers at Sunrise (1970) (shot in South Africa). He also worked on the dinner and stock theatre circuit, appearing in productions of Two for the Seesaw and A Hole in the Head.
He wanted to film The Ho Chi Minh Trail in Bangkok and the Philippines, but the project was cancelled.
Montgomery was instrumental in and supervised Satan's Harvest (1970) in South Africa. He appeared in The Leo Chronicles (1972) and The Daredevil (1972) and was involved in the production of The Proud and Damned (1972).
He appeared in Ride the Tiger (1970) and made guest appearances on 1970s television shows including The Odd Couple and The Six Million Dollar Man.