Marlon Brando
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 3, 1924
- Died
- July 1, 2004 (aged 80)
- Birthplace
- Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Biography
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor. Considered one of the most influential actors of the 20th century, he received numerous accolades throughout his career which spanned six decades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy Film Awards. Brando was also an activist for many causes, notably the civil rights movement and various Native American movements. Having studied with Stella Adler in the 1940s, he is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting and method acting, derived from the Stanislavski system, to mainstream audiences. He initially gained acclaim and his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for reprising the role of Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire, a role that he originated successfully on Broadway. He received further praise, and a first Academy Award and Golden Globe Award, for his performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, and his portrayal of the rebellious motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One proved to be a lasting image in popular culture. Brando received Academy Award nominations for playing Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (1952); Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; and Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara (1957), an adaptation of James A. Michener's 1954 novel. The 1960s saw Brando's career take a commercial and critical downturn. He directed and starred in the cult western One-Eyed Jacks, a critical and commercial flop, after which he delivered a series of notable box-office failures, beginning with Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). After ten years of underachieving, he agreed to do a screen test as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972). He got the part and subsequently won his second Academy Award and Golden Globe Award in a performance critics consider among his greatest. He declined the Academy Award due to alleged mistreatment and misportrayal of Native Americans by Hollywood. The Godfather was one of the most commercially successful films of all time, and alongside his Oscar-nominated performance in Last Tango in Paris (1972), Brando reestablished himself in the ranks of top box-office stars. After a hiatus in the early 1970s, Brando was generally content with being a highly paid character actor in supporting roles, such as Jor-El in Superman (1978), as Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now (1979), and Adam Steiffel in The Formula (1980), before taking a nine-year break from film. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Brando was paid a record $3.7 million ($16 million in inflation-adjusted dollars) and 11.75% of the gross profits for 13 days' work on Superman. Brando was ranked by the American Film Institute as the fourth-greatest movie star among male movie stars whose screen debuts occurred in or before 1950. He was one of only six actors named in 1999 by Time magazine in its list of the 100 Most Important People of the Century. In this list, Time also designated Brando as the "Actor of the Century".
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Filmography
Horrifying Hollywood Murders
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Michael Jackson: You Rock My World
Movie · as Boss
Humpty Dumpty X
Movie · as Self
Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage
Movie · as Self (archive) - subject
Chaos: The Manson Murders
Movie · as Self - Activist (archive footage)
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Marlon Brando in Paradise
Movie · as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man
Movie
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
Movie · as Himself
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
Movie · as Himself (archive footage)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Val
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Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
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Sophia Loren, a special destiny
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
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Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Making Montgomery Clift
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Movie
The Madding Crowd
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Tab Hunter Confidential
Movie · as Self (archive)
Listen to Me Marlon
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Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Movie · as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Sixties
TV · as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) · 1 ep
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
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Hollywood Invasion
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Always Brando
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Ballybrando
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Hollywood sul Tevere
Movie
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Brando: An Icon Is Born
Movie · as Himself (archive footage)
Brando
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Brando: The Documentary
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps
Superman Returns
Movie · as Jor-El (archive footage)
An Actor Named Brando
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Godfather and the Mob
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Movie · as Jor-El
Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
A Streetcar on Broadway
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A Streetcar in Hollywood
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Desire and Censorship
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North and the Music of the South
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Lost in "The Thinking"
Movie · as Jor-El (archive footage)
Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Celebrities Uncensored
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Naqoyqatsi
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Score
Movie · as Max
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
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Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
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Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
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Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
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A Huey P. Newton Story
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
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Free Money
Movie · as Warden Sven 'The Swede' Sorenson
The Brave
Movie · as McCarthy
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Movie · as Dr. Moreau
All Power to the People!
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
E! True Hollywood Story
TV · 1 ep
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Don Juan DeMarco
Movie · as Dr. Jack Mickler
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Movie · as Stanley Kowalski / Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (archive footage)
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Movie · as Tomas de Torquemada
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Movie · as Don Vito Corleone
Movie Tough Guys
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
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The Freshman
Movie · as Carmine Sabatini, aka Jimmy The Toucan
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
A Dry White Season
Movie · as Ian McKenzie
Black Leather Jacket
Movie · as Johnny Strabler (segment "The Wild One") (archive footage)
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Movie · as Self (voice)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hello Actors Studio
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All-Time Movie Greats
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Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
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The Formula
Movie · as Adam Steiffel
Apocalypse Now
Movie · as Colonel Walter Kurtz
Roots: The Next Generations
TV · as George Lincoln Rockwell · 1 ep
Superman
Movie · as Jor-El
Raoni
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Hollywood Greats
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
TV · as Don Vito Corleone · 4 eps
The Missouri Breaks
Movie · as Robert E. Lee Clayton
The English Programme
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 ep
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Last Tango in Paris
Movie · as Paul
The Nightcomers
Movie · as Peter Quint
The Godfather
Movie · as Don Vito Corleone
Midi trente
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
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Burn!
Movie · as Sir William Walker
The Night of the Following Day
Movie · as Chauffeur
The Movie Orgy
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Candy
Movie · as Grindl
The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Movie · as Maj. Weldon Penderton
A Countess from Hong Kong
Movie · as Ogden Mears
The Chase
Movie · as Sheriff Calder
The Appaloosa
Movie · as Matt
Meet Marlon Brando
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Morituri
Movie · as Robert Crain
Bedtime Story
Movie · as Freddy Benson
The Ugly American
Movie · as Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite
Mutiny on the Bounty
Movie · as First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian
One-Eyed Jacks
Movie · as Rio
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Fugitive Kind
Movie · as Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier
The David Susskind Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Young Lions
Movie · as Lt. Christian Diestl
Sayonara
Movie · as Major Lloyd Gruver
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Movie · as Sakini
Operation Teahouse
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Cinépanorama
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Guys and Dolls
Movie · as Sky Masterson
MGM Parade
TV · 2 eps
On the Waterfront
Movie · as Terry Malloy
Désirée
Movie · as Napoleon Bonaparte
The Wild One
Movie · as Johnny Strabler
Julius Caesar
Movie · as Mark Antony
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Viva Zapata!
Movie · as Emiliano Zapata
A Streetcar Named Desire
Movie · as Stanley Kowalski
The Men
Movie · as Ken
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps