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".
Known for
The Godfather
Don Vito Corleone
The Oscars
Self
Apocalypse Now
Colonel Walter Kurtz
Midi trente
Self
Superman
Jor-El
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
Don Vito Corleone
The Score
Max
Superman Returns
Jor-El
MGM Parade
Roots: The Next Generations
George Lincoln Rockwell
The Sixties
Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
On the Waterfront
Terry Malloy
kid 90
Self (archive footage)
The Hollywood Greats
The Chase
Sheriff Calder
Last Tango in Paris
Paul
The Men
Ken
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Dr. Moreau
One-Eyed Jacks
Rio
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
A Streetcar Named Desire
Stanley Kowalski
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Jor-El
Candy
Grindl
Mutiny on the Bounty
First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian
Don Juan DeMarco
Dr. Jack Mickler
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
Raoni
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Freshman
Carmine Sabatini, aka Jimmy The Toucan
Guys and Dolls
Sky Masterson
E! True Hollywood Story
Brando: The Documentary
Self
The English Programme
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Young Lions
Lt. Christian Diestl
A Countess from Hong Kong
Ogden Mears
The Wild One
Johnny Strabler
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Don Vito Corleone
Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
Sayonara
Major Lloyd Gruver
Hello Actors Studio
Self (archive footage)
Viva Zapata!
Emiliano Zapata
Morituri
Robert Crain
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Maj. Weldon Penderton
The Brave
McCarthy
Chaos: The Manson Murders
Self - Activist (archive footage)
Free Money
Warden Sven 'The Swede' Sorenson
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Don Vito Corleone
Ballybrando
Self (archive footage)
The Appaloosa
Matt
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Tomas de Torquemada
Hollywood Invasion
Self (archive footage)
Burn!
Sir William Walker
The Missouri Breaks
Robert E. Lee Clayton
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Self
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
Self
Brando
Self (archive footage)
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Sakini
The Nightcomers
Peter Quint
Désirée
Napoleon Bonaparte
A Dry White Season
Ian McKenzie
The Fugitive Kind
Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
Self (archive footage)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Self (archive footage)
Naqoyqatsi
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Ugly American
Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
Self
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Self (archive footage)
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Self (archive footage)
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
Self
Tab Hunter Confidential
Self (archive footage)
Bedtime Story
Freddy Benson
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
The Formula
Adam Steiffel
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self (archive footage)
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
Self
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Stanley Kowalski / Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (archive footage)
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Night of the Following Day
Chauffeur
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self (voice)
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
Self (archive footage)
Operation Teahouse
Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Self (archive footage)
The Godfather and the Mob
Self (archive footage)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Self (archive footage)
Lynch/Oz
Self (archive footage)
Listen to Me Marlon
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Self (archive footage)
Movie Tough Guys
Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Self
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Self (archive footage)
Always Brando
A Huey P. Newton Story
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Black Leather Jacket
Johnny Strabler (segment "The Wild One") (archive footage)
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Self
Final Days of an Icon
An Actor Named Brando
Self (archive footage)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
(archive footage)
Lost in "The Thinking"
Jor-El (archive footage)
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
Self (archive footage)
The Madding Crowd
Self (archive footage)
1955, Seven Days of Fall
(archive footage)
All Power to the People!
Self (archive footage)
Flashing Images of Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando
Stanley Kowalski/Self
Making Montgomery Clift
Self (archive footage)
Come vorresti che fosse il futuro?
Self
Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
Self (archive footage)
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
Himself (archive footage)
Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage
Self (archive) - subject
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
Brando: An Icon Is Born
Himself (archive footage)
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Self (archive footage)
Marlon Brando in Paradise
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Meet Marlon Brando
Self
Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye
Self (archival)
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
Himself
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Horrifying Hollywood Murders
Self (archive footage)
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Cinépanorama
Self
The David Susskind Show
Self
Celebrities Uncensored
Self