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person_profile-Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Died at age: 80

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Marlon Brando

Date of Birth:

Apr 03, 1924

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jul 01, 2004

Biography of

Marlon Brando

    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 of

Marlon Brando

Found 96 Movies in total

Marlon Brando in Paradise

Self - Actor (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2024

Sly

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2023

Johnny Depp: The Love of the Bizarre

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2023

Becoming Al Pacino

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2022

... 2021

Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius

Himself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

Val

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

... 2021

kid 90

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

... 2021

Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

Sophia Loren, a special destiny

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2019

... 2019

Making Montgomery Clift

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2018

Listen to Me Marlon

Self (voice) (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2015

Tab Hunter Confidential

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2015

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2014

... 2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2014

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2012

Smash His Camera

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2010

Reel Injun

Himself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2010

Ballybrando

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2009

Paris Hilton Inc.

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2009

The Last Days of Marlon Brando

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2008

Brando

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2007

... 2006

... 2006

Superman Returns

Jor-El ( Actor )

... 2006

... 2006

The Godfather and the Mob

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2006

Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris

self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2004

... 2003

Naqoyqatsi

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2002

... 2001

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2001

The Score

Max ( Actor )

... 2001

A Huey P. Newton Story

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2001

... 1999

Free Money

Warden Sven 'The Swede' Sorenson ( Actor )

... 1998

Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1998

The Brave

McCarthy ( Actor )

... 1997

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Dr. Moreau ( Actor )

... 1996

All Power to the People!

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1996

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Stanley Kowalski / Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1994

Don Juan DeMarco

Dr. Jack Mickler ( Actor )

... 1994

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1994

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

Don Vito Corleone ( Actor )

... 1992

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

Tomas de Torquemada ( Actor )

... 1992

... 1991

Movie Tough Guys

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1991

Anthony Quinn: An Original

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1990

The Freshman

Carmine Sabatini, aka Jimmy The Toucan ( Actor )

... 1990

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

Self / Don Vito Corleone (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1990

A Dry White Season

Ian McKenzie ( Actor )

... 1989

Black Leather Jacket

Johnny Strabler (segment "The Wild One") (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1989

Hello Actors Studio

Self (Archival Footage) ( Actor )

... 1988

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1988

... 1988

Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1987

... 1981

The Formula

Adam Steiffel ( Actor )

... 1980

... 1980

Apocalypse Now

Colonel Walter Kurtz ( Actor )

... 1979

Superman

Jor-El ( Actor )

... 1978

The Missouri Breaks

Robert E. Lee Clayton ( Actor )

... 1976

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1974

Last Tango in Paris

Paul ( Actor )

... 1972

The Godfather

Don Vito Corleone ( Actor )

... 1972

The Nightcomers

Peter Quint ( Actor )

... 1972

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1970

Burn!

Sir William Walker ( Actor )

... 1969

... 1969

Candy

Grindl ( Actor )

... 1968

The Movie Orgy

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1968

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Maj. Weldon Penderton ( Actor )

... 1967

A Countess from Hong Kong

Ogden Mears ( Actor )

... 1967

The Appaloosa

Matt ( Actor )

... 1966

The Chase

Sheriff Calder ( Actor )

... 1966

Morituri

Robert Crain ( Actor )

... 1965

Bedtime Story

Freddy Benson ( Actor )

... 1964

The Ugly American

Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite ( Actor )

... 1963

Mutiny on the Bounty

First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian ( Actor )

... 1962

One-Eyed Jacks

Rio ( Actor )

Director

... 1961

The Fugitive Kind

Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier ( Actor )

... 1960

The Young Lions

Lt. Christian Diestl ( Actor )

... 1958

Sayonara

Major Lloyd Gruver ( Actor )

... 1957

... 1957

Guys and Dolls

Sky Masterson ( Actor )

... 1955

Désirée

Napoleon Bonaparte ( Actor )

... 1954

On the Waterfront

Terry Malloy ( Actor )

... 1954

The Wild One

Johnny Strabler ( Actor )

... 1953

Julius Caesar

Mark Antony ( Actor )

... 1953

Viva Zapata!

Emiliano Zapata ( Actor )

... 1952

A Streetcar Named Desire

Stanley Kowalski ( Actor )

... 1951

The Men

Ken ( Actor )

... 1950