
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.

The Odd Couple

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Street of Sinners

Warkill

What's My Line?

Alias Smith and Jones

Roxie Hart

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Dinah!

Fort Ti

Three Little Girls in Blue

Canyon River

General Electric Theater

This Is Your Life

Orchestra Wives

Gun Belt

Pawnee

Indian Uprising

Saga of Death Valley

Coney Island

The Daredevil

Accent on Love

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone

The Lone Ranger

King of the Wild Stallions

The Cowboy and the Blonde

Last of the Duanes

Charter Pilot

Hi-Yo Silver

Army Girl

Cadet Girl

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

The Brasher Doubloon

Masterson of Kansas

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

Robbers' Roost

The Iroquois Trail

The Arizona Kid

Jack McCall, Desperado

Battle of Rogue River

Cripple Creek

The Texas Rangers

Last of the Badmen

Bomber's Moon

S.O.S Tidal Wave

Watusi

The Steve Allen Show

The Night Riders

Guerillas in Pink Lace

Gun Duel in Durango

The Lone Gun

Black Patch

Badman's Country

The Mike Douglas Show

China Girl

In Old Monterey

Hostile Guns

Satan's Harvest

The Girl from Manhattan

Seminole Uprising

Hell of Borneo

Dakota Lil

In Old Caliente

South of the Border

Ransom

Studio One

Cimarron City

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout

The Cisco Kid and the Lady

Huk!

Man from God's Country

Bomba u 10 i 10

Star Dust

Springtime in the Rockies

The Steel Claw

Wall Street Cowboy

Belle Starr's Daughter

Young People

The Mysterious Miss X

Lulu Belle

The Sword of Monte Cristo

The Pathfinder

Rough Riders' Round-up

Southward Ho!

Frontier Pony Express

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Take It or Leave It

Strangers at Sunrise

Hallucination Generation

El proscrito del río Colorado

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

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Samar

Riders of the Purple Sage

Ride the Tiger

Claire

Jennie

Children's Island