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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".
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 3, 1924
Day of Death
July 1, 2004
Age at Death
80 years old
Place of Birth
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Popularity Score
3.6
Filmography
Humpty Dumpty X
Self
2026Movie
The Shadows Of Method
Himself (archive footage)
2026Movie
Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage
Self (archive) - subject
2025Movie
Chaos: The Manson Murders
Self - Activist (archive footage)
2025Movie
Marlon Brando in Paradise
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2024Movie
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
Self (archive footage)
2024TV
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
Himself
2022Movie
Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man
2022Movie
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Self (archive footage)
2021Movie
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
Himself (archive footage)
2021Movie
kid 90
Self (archive footage)
2021Movie
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Self (archive footage)
2021Movie
Val
Self (archive)
2021Movie
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
Self(archive footage)
2020Movie
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
Self (archive footage)
2019Movie
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
(archive footage)
2019Movie
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Self (archive footage)
2019Movie
Making Montgomery Clift
Self (archive footage)
2018Movie
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018Movie
The Madding Crowd
Self (archive footage)
2017Movie
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Don Vito Corleone
2016Movie
Tab Hunter Confidential
Self (archive)
2015Movie
Listen to Me Marlon
Self (voice) (archive footage)
2015Movie
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
2014Movie
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Self (archive footage)
2014Movie
The Sixties
Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
2014TV
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2012Movie
Hollywood Invasion
Self (archive footage)
2011Movie
Always Brando
2011Movie
Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus!
Thanks
2010Movie
Ballybrando
Self (archive footage)
2009Movie
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009Movie
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
Self (archive footage)
2008Movie
Brando: An Icon Is Born
Himself (archive footage)
2007Movie
Brando
Self (archive footage)
2007Movie
Brando: The Documentary
Self
2007TV
Superman Returns
Jor-El
2006Movie
An Actor Named Brando
Self (archive footage)
2006Movie
The Godfather and the Mob
Self (archive footage)
2006Movie
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Jor-El
2006Movie
Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye
Self (archival)
2006Movie
A Streetcar on Broadway
Self (archive footage)
2006Movie
A Streetcar in Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2006Movie
Desire and Censorship
Self (archive footage)
2006Movie
North and the Music of the South
Self (archive footage)
2006Movie
Lost in "The Thinking"
Jor-El (archive footage)
2005Movie
Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
Self (archive footage)
2004Movie
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
2004Movie
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self (archive footage)
2003Movie
Celebrities Uncensored
Self
2003TV
Naqoyqatsi
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002Movie
The Score
Max
2001Movie
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
Self
2001Movie
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Self (archive footage)
2001Movie
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
Self
2001Movie
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
Self
2001Movie
A Huey P. Newton Story
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001Movie
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999Movie
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Self
1999Movie
Free Money
Warden Sven 'The Swede' Sorenson
1998Movie
The Brave
McCarthy
1997Movie
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Dr. Moreau
1996Movie
All Power to the People!
Self (archive footage)
1996Movie
E! True Hollywood Story
1996TV
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
1995Movie
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
Self (archive footage)
1995Movie
Don Juan DeMarco
Dr. Jack Mickler
1994Movie
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Stanley Kowalski / Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (archive footage)
1994Movie
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Self (archive footage)
1994Movie
In the Name of the Father
Thanks
1993Movie
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Tomas de Torquemada
1992Movie
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Don Vito Corleone
1992Movie
Movie Tough Guys
Self (archive footage)
1991Movie
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Self
1991Movie
The Freshman
Carmine Sabatini, aka Jimmy The Toucan
1990Movie
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Self (archive footage)
1990Movie
A Dry White Season
Ian McKenzie
1989Movie
Black Leather Jacket
Johnny Strabler (segment "The Wild One") (archive footage)
1989Movie
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self (voice)
1989Movie
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988Movie
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988Movie
Hello Actors Studio
Self (archive footage)
1988Movie
All-Time Movie Greats
Self (archive footage)
1988Movie
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
Self (archive footage)
1987Movie
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Self
1982Movie
The Formula
Adam Steiffel
1980Movie
Apocalypse Now
Colonel Walter Kurtz
1979Movie
Roots: The Next Generations
George Lincoln Rockwell
1979TV
Superman
Jor-El
1978Movie
Raoni
Self - Narrator (voice)
1978Movie
The Hollywood Greats
Self (archive footage)
1977TV
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
Don Vito Corleone
1977TV
The Missouri Breaks
Robert E. Lee Clayton
1976Movie
The English Programme
Self - Narrator (voice)
1976TV
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974Movie
Last Tango in Paris
Paul
1972Movie
The Nightcomers
Peter Quint
1972Movie
The Godfather
Don Vito Corleone
1972Movie
Midi trente
Self
1972TV
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
Self
1971Movie
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
1970Movie
Burn!
Sir William Walker
1969Movie
The Night of the Following Day
Chauffeur
1969Movie
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
1968Movie
Candy
Grindl
1968Movie
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968TV
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Maj. Weldon Penderton
1967Movie
A Countess from Hong Kong
Ogden Mears
1967Movie
The Chase
Sheriff Calder
1966Movie
The Appaloosa
Matt
1966Movie
Meet Marlon Brando
Self
1966Movie
Morituri
Robert Crain
1965Movie
Bedtime Story
Freddy Benson
1964Movie
The Ugly American
Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite
1963Movie
Mutiny on the Bounty
First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian
1962Movie
One-Eyed Jacks
Rio
1961Movie
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961TV
One-Eyed Jacks
Director
1961Movie
The Fugitive Kind
Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier
1960Movie
The David Susskind Show
Self
1959TV
The Young Lions
Lt. Christian Diestl
1958Movie
Sayonara
Major Lloyd Gruver
1957Movie
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Sakini
1957Movie
Operation Teahouse
Self
1956Movie
Cinépanorama
Self
1956TV
Guys and Dolls
Sky Masterson
1955Movie
MGM Parade
1955TV
On the Waterfront
Terry Malloy
1954Movie
Désirée
Napoleon Bonaparte
1954Movie
The Wild One
Johnny Strabler
1953Movie
Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
1953Movie
The Oscars
Self
1953TV
Viva Zapata!
Emiliano Zapata
1952Movie
A Streetcar Named Desire
Stanley Kowalski
1951Movie
The Men
Ken
1950Movie
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948TV
Horrifying Hollywood Murders
Self (archive footage)
—Movie