Cast
Marlon Brando
Acting
Cast
Marlon Brando
Known for
Acting
Born
1924-04-03
From
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Died
2004-07-01
Also known as Marlon Brando Jr., Marlon Brando Junior
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".
The Godfather
as Don Vito Corleone
Apocalypse Now
as Colonel Walter Kurtz
Last Tango in Paris
as Paul
Superman
as Jor-El
On the Waterfront
as Terry Malloy
Superman Returns
as Jor-El
The Score
as Max
Candy
as Grindl
A Streetcar Named Desire
as Stanley Kowalski
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Julius Caesar
as Mark Antony
Don Juan DeMarco
as Dr. Jack Mickler
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
as Jor-El
Naqoyqatsi
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Viva Zapata!
as Emiliano Zapata
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
as Don Vito Corleone
Tab Hunter Confidential
as Self (archive)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
as Self (archive footage)
The Chase
as Sheriff Calder
The Island of Dr. Moreau
as Dr. Moreau
kid 90
as Self (archive footage)
The Wild One
as Johnny Strabler
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mutiny on the Bounty
as First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian
One-Eyed Jacks
as Rio
Sayonara
as Major Lloyd Gruver
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
as Self
The Freshman
as Carmine Sabatini, aka Jimmy The Toucan
Guys and Dolls
as Sky Masterson
Free Money
as Warden Sven 'The Swede' Sorenson
A Countess from Hong Kong
as Ogden Mears
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
as Don Vito Corleone
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Appaloosa
as Matt
The Missouri Breaks
as Robert E. Lee Clayton
Reflections in a Golden Eye
as Maj. Weldon Penderton
The Fugitive Kind
as Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier
The Young Lions
as Lt. Christian Diestl
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
Morituri
as Robert Crain
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self (archive footage)
Chaos: The Manson Murders
as Self - Activist (archive footage)
Burn!
as Sir William Walker
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
as Self (archive footage)
Hello Actors Studio
as Self (archive footage)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage)
Désirée
as Napoleon Bonaparte
The Men
as Ken
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
The Nightcomers
as Peter Quint
A Dry White Season
as Ian McKenzie
Bedtime Story
as Freddy Benson
Brando
as Self (archive footage)
The Brave
as McCarthy
The Teahouse of the August Moon
as Sakini
The Ugly American
as Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
as Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Night of the Following Day
as Chauffeur
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Stanley Kowalski / Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (archive footage)
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
as Self
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
as Tomas de Torquemada
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
as Self (archive footage)
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
as Self
Listen to Me Marlon
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Operation Teahouse
as Self
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
as (archive footage)
Ballybrando
as Self (archive footage)
The Formula
as Adam Steiffel
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Raoni
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Godfather and the Mob
as Self (archive footage)
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
as Self
Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage
as Self (archive) - subject
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
as Self(archive footage)
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Hollywood Invasion
as Self (archive footage)
A Huey P. Newton Story
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
as Self
Making Montgomery Clift
as Self (archive footage)
Meet Marlon Brando
as Self
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
as Self (archive footage)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
as Self (archive footage)
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
as Himself (archive footage)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
as Self (archive footage)
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
as Self
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
as Self (archive footage)
All Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage)
Black Leather Jacket
as Johnny Strabler (segment "The Wild One") (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
as Self (archive footage)
Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye
as Self (archival)
The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
as Self (archive footage)
Movie Tough Guys
as Self (archive footage)
Always Brando
Humpty Dumpty X
as Self
Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
as Self (archive footage)
1955, Seven Days of Fall
as (archive footage)
Brando: An Icon Is Born
as Himself (archive footage)
Lost in "The Thinking"
as Jor-El (archive footage)
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
as Himself
Horrifying Hollywood Murders
as Self (archive footage)
An Actor Named Brando
as Self (archive footage)
Marlon Brando in Paradise
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Flashing Images of Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando
as Stanley Kowalski/Self