
Robert Montgomery
Highest Rated: 100% Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Lowest Rated: 60% Lady in the Lake (1946)
Birthday: May 21, 1904
Birthplace: Beacon, New York, USA
Dapper, talented MGM contract lead from 1929, primarily cast as amusing, boyish, upper-crust playboys opposite stars such as Greta Garbo ("Inspiration," 1931) and Joan Crawford ("The Last of Mrs. Cheyney," 1937). Besides Crawford, he was most often paired with glamorous Norma Shearer, opposite whom he co-starred in five films between 1929 and 1934; their best teamings were "The Divorcee" (1930) and the uproarious adaptation of Noel Coward's "Private Lives" (1931). As the decade wore on Montgomery fought for a wider range of roles, and achieved notable success as the deranged killer in "Night Must Fall" (1937). Another change-of-pace role came in an even more acclaimed and popular film, the comic fantasy, "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" (1941), with Montgomery as a pug who is "removed" to heaven by an angel before his appointed time and is allowed to continue his life on earth in another body.








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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | 61% | The Gallant Hours |
Director, Producer |
- | 1960 |
No Score Yet | 11% | Tomahawk | Blair Streeter (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eye Witness |
Adam Heyward (Character), Director |
- | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Once More, My Darling |
Collier "Collie" Laing (Character), Director |
- | 1949 |
No Score Yet | 56% | June Bride | Carey Jackson (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Saxon Charm | Matt Saxon (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Secret Land | Unknown (Voice) | - | 1948 |
100% | 85% | Ride the Pink Horse |
Lucky Gagin (Character), Director |
- | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ride a Pink Horse |
Lucky Gagin (Character), Director |
- | 1947 |
60% | 51% | Lady in the Lake |
Phillip Marlowe (Character), Director |
- | 1946 |
92% | 73% | They Were Expendable |
Lt. John Brickley (Character), Director |
- | 1945 |
No Score Yet | 54% | Rage in Heaven | Philip Monrell (Character) | - | 1941 |
64% | 48% | Mr. and Mrs. Smith | David (Character) | - | 1941 |
100% | 82% | Here Comes Mr. Jordan | Joe Pendleton (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Unfinished Business | Tommy Duncan (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Haunted Honeymoon | Lord Peter Wimsey (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | 33% | The Earl of Chicago | Robert Kilmount (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Fast and Loose | Joel Sloane (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Three Loves Has Nancy | Malcolm `'Mal'` Niles (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Yellow Jack | John O'Hara (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The First Hundred Years | David Conway (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | 77% | Night Must Fall | Danny (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | 56% | The Last of Mrs. Cheyney | Lord Arthur Dilling (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | 27% | Live, Love and Learn | Bob Graham (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Ever Since Eve | Freddy Matthews (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Piccadilly Jim | James Crocker, Jr. (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Trouble for Two | Prince Florizel (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | 60% | Petticoat Fever | Dascom Dinsmore (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vanessa, Her Love Story | Benjamin Herries (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 40% | No More Ladies | Sherry (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Biography of a Bachelor Girl | Richard `'Dickie'` Kurt (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fugitive Lovers | Paul Porter (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Forsaking All Others | Dillon Todd (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | 39% | Riptide | Tommie (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | 43% | Hide-Out | Jonathan "Lucky" Wilson (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | 33% | The Mystery of Mr. X | Deputy (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Another Language | Victor Hallam (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | 22% | Night Flight | Auguste Pellerin (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Made on Broadway | Jeff (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | 56% | Hell Below | Lt. Thomas Knowlton USN (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | 42% | When Ladies Meet | Jimmie Lee (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | 43% | Blondie of the Follies | Larry (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | But the Flesh Is Weak | Max Clement (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | 25% | Faithless | William "Bill" Wade (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lovers Courageous | Willie (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Easiest Way | Jack `'Johnny'` Madison (Character) | - | 1931 |
80% | 61% | Private Lives | Elyot "Elly" Chase (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | 45% | Strangers May Kiss | Steve (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man in Possession | Raymond Dabney (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | 48% | Inspiration | André Montell (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shipmates | John Paul Jones (Character) | - | 1931 |
78% | 62% | The Divorcee | Don (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Our Blushing Brides | Tony Jardine (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Love in the Rough | Kelly (Character) | - | 1930 |
75% | 70% | The Big House | Kent Marlowe (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Free and Easy | Larry (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | War Nurse | Wally (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sins of the Children | Nick Higginson (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Untamed | Andy McAllister (Character) | - | 1929 |
No Score Yet | 41% | Their Own Desire | Jack (Character) | - | 1929 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1957 |