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".

Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando

Biography

The Godfather

Apocalypse Now

Superman

Superman Returns

Candy

The Score

Last Tango in Paris

A Streetcar Named Desire

On the Waterfront

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Hollywood Invasion

Guys and Dolls

One-Eyed Jacks

The Chase

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

The Movie Orgy

Mutiny on the Bounty

Désirée

Don Juan DeMarco

Julius Caesar

The Missouri Breaks

The Wild One

Viva Zapata!

A Countess from Hong Kong

The Freshman

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

kid 90

A Dry White Season

Hollywood: No Sex, Please!

Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration

Anthony Quinn: An Original

Tab Hunter Confidential

The Young Lions

The Men

Chaos: The Manson Murders

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

The Fugitive Kind

The Ugly American

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

Listen to Me Marlon

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

Horrifying Hollywood Murders

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Morituri

Sayonara

Always Brando

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

Burn!

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend

Hello Actors Studio

Hollywood sul Tevere

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

Bedtime Story

The Brave

The Appaloosa

All-Time Movie Greats

Free Money

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

Ballybrando

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye

Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild

The Godfather and the Mob

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity

The Madding Crowd

Meet Marlon Brando

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius

Black Leather Jacket

Naqoyqatsi

Raoni

The Nightcomers

The Formula