Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 03, 1924
Died
Jul 01, 2004
Place of Birth
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Credits
137 titles
Marlon Brando
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".
Known For
Filmography
The Shadows Of Method
Himself (archive footage)
Humpty Dumpty X
Self
Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage
Self (archive) - subject
Chaos: The Manson Murders
Self - Activist (archive footage)
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
Self (archive footage)
Marlon Brando in Paradise
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Flashing Images of Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando
Stanley Kowalski/Self
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
Himself
Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
Himself (archive footage)
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Self (archive footage)
kid 90
Self (archive footage)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Self (archive footage)
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
Self(archive footage)
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
Self (archive footage)
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
(archive footage)
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Self (archive footage)
Making Montgomery Clift
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
The Madding Crowd
Self (archive footage)
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Don Vito Corleone
Listen to Me Marlon
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Tab Hunter Confidential
Self (archive)
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Self (archive footage)
The Sixties
Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
Always Brando
Hollywood Invasion
Self (archive footage)
Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus!
Thanks
Ballybrando
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
Self (archive footage)
Brando: An Icon Is Born
Himself (archive footage)
Brando: The Documentary
Self
Brando
Self (archive footage)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Jor-El
Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye
Self (archival)
Superman Returns
Jor-El
Desire and Censorship
Self (archive footage)
A Streetcar in Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
An Actor Named Brando
Self (archive footage)
North and the Music of the South
Self (archive footage)
The Godfather and the Mob
Self (archive footage)
A Streetcar on Broadway
Self (archive footage)
Lost in "The Thinking"
Jor-El (archive footage)
1955, Seven Days of Fall
(archive footage)
Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
Self (archive footage)
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
Celebrities Uncensored
Self