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Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando

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Born April 3, 1924, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

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".

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (77)
  • 2026Humpty Dumpty X — Self
  • 2025Chaos: The Manson Murders — Self - Activist (archive footage)
  • 2025Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage — Self (archive) - subject
  • 2025Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror — Self (archive footage)
  • 2024Marlon Brando in Paradise — Self - Actor (archive footage)
  • Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae — Self (archive footage)
  • 2022The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972 — Himself
  • 2021Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius — Himself (archive footage)
  • 2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021Val — Self (archive)
  • 2019Sacheen: Breaking the Silence — Self (archive footage)
  • 2019Sophia Loren, a special destiny — Self (archive footage)
  • 2018Making Montgomery Clift — Self (archive footage)
  • 2017The Madding Crowd — Self (archive footage)
  • 2015Listen to Me Marlon — Self (archive footage)
  • 2015Tab Hunter Confidential — Self (archive)
  • 2014Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau — Self (archive footage)
  • 2014Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire — Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
  • The Sixties — Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
  • 2011Always Brando — Self
  • 2011Hollywood Invasion — Self (archive footage)
  • 2009Ballybrando — Self (archive footage)
  • 2008The Last Days of Marlon Brando — Self (archive footage)
  • 2007Brando — Self (archive footage)
  • 2007Brando: An Icon Is Born — Himself (archive footage)
  • Brando: The Documentary — Self (archive footage)
  • 2006A Streetcar in Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
  • 2006A Streetcar on Broadway — Self (archive footage)
  • 2006Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye — Self (archive footage)
  • 2006An Actor Named Brando — Self (archive footage)
  • 2006Desire and Censorship — Self (archive footage)
  • 2006North and the Music of the South — Self (archive footage)
  • 2006The Godfather and the Mob — Self (archive footage)
  • 2004Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris — Self (archive footage)
  • 2004Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self (archive footage)
  • Celebrities Uncensored — Self
  • 2002Naqoyqatsi — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 2001A Huey P. Newton Story — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 2001Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies — Self (archive footage)
  • 2001Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend — Self
  • 2001Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration — Self
  • 2001Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman' — Self
  • 1999Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 1999Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity — Self
  • 1996All Power to the People! — Self (archive footage)
  • 1995Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey — Self (archive footage)
  • 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self (archive footage)
  • 1994Marlon Brando: The Wild One — Self (archive footage)
  • 1991Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse — Self
  • 1991Movie Tough Guys — Self (archive footage)
  • 1990Anthony Quinn: An Original — Self (archive footage)
  • 1989Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre — Self (voice)
  • 1988All-Time Movie Greats — Self (archive footage)
  • 1988Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 1988Hello Actors Studio — Self (archive footage)
  • 1988John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 1987Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star — Self (archive footage)
  • 1982The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' — Self
  • 1978Raoni — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • The Hollywood Greats — Self (archive footage)
  • The English Programme — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 1974Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Midi trente — Self
  • 1971The Godfather: Behind the Scenes — Self
  • 1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis — Self (archive footage)
  • The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
  • 1968The Movie Orgy — Self (archive footage)
  • 1966Meet Marlon Brando — Self
  • The Mike Douglas Show — Self
  • The David Susskind Show — Self
  • Cinépanorama — Self
  • 1956Operation Teahouse — Self
  • The Oscars — Self
  • The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
  • Horrifying Hollywood Murders — Self (archive footage)
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