Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando

Birthdate
April 3, 1924 (100 years old)
Place of Birth
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Date of Death
July 1, 2004
Known For
Acting

Details

Birthdate
April 3, 1924 (100 years old)
Place of Birth
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Date of Death
July 1, 2004
Known For
Acting

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's LGBTQ+ Titles

Tab Hunter Confidential
Tab Hunter Confidential
Self (archive footage)
Making Montgomery Clift
Making Montgomery Clift
Self (archive footage)

Acting (122)

2024
Marlon Brando in Paradise as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2023
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain as Self
2023
Sly as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Star 67 as Prank Call Voice
2023
Johnny Depp: The Love of the Bizarre as Self (archive footage)
2022
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972 as Himself
2022
Becoming Al Pacino as Self (archive footage)
2021
Mr. Saturday Night
2021
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius as Himself (archive footage)
2021
Val as Self (archive footage)
2021
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It as Self (archive footage)
2021
kid 90 as Self (archive footage)
2021
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
2020
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth as Self (archive footage)
2019
Sophia Loren, a special destiny as Self (archive footage)
2019
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood as (archive footage)
2019
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence as Self (archive footage)
2018
Making Montgomery Clift as Self (archive footage)
2017
The Madding Crowd as Self (archive footage)
2015
Listen to Me Marlon as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2015
Tab Hunter Confidential as Self (archive footage)
2014
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau as Self (archive footage)
2014
And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011
Hollywood Invasion as Self (archive footage)
2010
Smash His Camera as Self (archive footage)
2009
Ballybrando as Self (archive footage)
2008
The Last Days of Marlon Brando as Self (archive footage)
2007
Brando: An Icon Is Born as Himself (archive footage)
2007
Brando: The Documentary as Self (2 episodes)
2007
Brando as Self (archive footage)
2006
You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman as Self (archive footage)
2006
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut as Jor-El
2006
Superman Returns as Jor-El
2006
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman as Self (archive footage)
2006
An Actor Named Brando as Self (archive footage)
2006
The Godfather and the Mob as Self (archive footage)
2005
1955, Seven Days of Fall as (archive footage)
2005
VM Show Vol. 2 as Don Vito Corleone (archive footage) (1 episode)
2004
Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris as Self (archive footage)
2003
Celebrities Uncensored as Self (1 episode)
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self (archive footage)
2002
Naqoyqatsi as Self (archive footage)
2001
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration as Self
2001
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies as Self (archive footage)
2001
The Score as Max
2001
A Huey P. Newton Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman' as Self
2001
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend as Self
1999
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
Free Money as Warden Sven 'The Swede' Sorenson
1998
Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman as Self (archive footage)
1997
The Brave as McCarthy
1996
The Island of Dr. Moreau as Dr. Moreau
1996
E! True Hollywood Story (1 episode)
1996
All Power to the People! as Self (archive footage)
1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage as Stanley Kowalski / Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (archive footage)
1994
Don Juan DeMarco as Dr. Jack Mickler
1994
Marlon Brando: The Wild One as Self (archive footage)
1992
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 as Don Vito Corleone
1992
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery as Tomas de Torquemada
1991
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as Self
1991
Movie Tough Guys as Self (archive footage)
1990
Anthony Quinn: An Original as Self (archive footage)
1990
The Freshman as Carmine Sabatini, aka Jimmy The Toucan
1990
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside as Self / Don Vito Corleone (archive footage)
1989
A Dry White Season as Ian McKenzie
1989
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989
Black Leather Jacket as Johnny Strabler (segment "The Wild One") (archive footage)
1988
Hello Actors Studio as Self (archive footage)
1988
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC as Self (archive footage)
1987
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star as Self (archive footage)
1981
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic as Don Vito Corleone
1980
The Formula as Adam Steiffel
1980
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' as Self
1979
Apocalypse Now as Colonel Walter Kurtz
1979
Roots: The Next Generations as George Lincoln Rockwell (7 episodes)
1978
Superman as Jor-El
1978
Raoni as Narrator
1977
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television as Don Vito Corleone (4 episodes)
1977
The Hollywood Greats (1 episode)
1976
The Missouri Breaks as Robert E. Lee Clayton
1974
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1972
Last Tango in Paris as Paul
1972
The Godfather as Don Vito Corleone
1972
Midi trente as Self (1 episode)
1972
The Nightcomers as Peter Quint
1971
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes as Self
1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage)
1969
Burn! as Sir William Walker
1969
The Night of the Following Day as Chauffeur
1968
Candy as Grindl
1968
The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1968
The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)
1967
Reflections in a Golden Eye as Maj. Weldon Penderton
1967
A Countess from Hong Kong as Ogden Mears
1966
Meet Marlon Brando as Self
1966
The Appaloosa as Matt
1966
The Chase as Sheriff Calder
1965
Morituri as Robert Crain
1964
Bedtime Story as Freddy Benson
1963
The Ugly American as Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite
1962
Mutiny on the Bounty as First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian
1961
One-Eyed Jacks as Rio
1960
The Fugitive Kind as Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier
1959
The David Susskind Show as Self (1 episode)
1958
The Young Lions as Lt. Christian Diestl
1957
Sayonara as Major Lloyd Gruver
1957
The Teahouse of the August Moon as Sakini
1956
Cinépanorama as Self (1 episode)
1955
Guys and Dolls as Sky Masterson
1954
Désirée as Napoleon Bonaparte
1954
On the Waterfront as Terry Malloy
1953
The Wild One as Johnny Strabler
1953
Julius Caesar as Marc Antoine
1953
The Oscars as Self (3 episodes)
1952
Viva Zapata! as Emiliano Zapata
1951
A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley Kowalski
1950
The Men as Ken
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show as Self (2 episodes)
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show as Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)

Directing (1)

1961
One-Eyed Jacks • Director
• Director

Crew (1)

1993
In the Name of the Father • Thanks
• Thanks