Marlon Brando

Acting · 3.2 popularity

Age

102

Movies

117

Born: April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004
From: Omaha, Nebraska, USA

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".

Works

117 films

The Godfather

19728.7

Apocalypse Now

19798.3

Superman

19787.2

Superman Returns

20065.8

Candy

19685.1

The Score

20016.7

On the Waterfront

19547.9

A Streetcar Named Desire

19517.6

Last Tango in Paris

19726.9

The Chase

19667.1

Don Juan DeMarco

19946.8

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

20067.4

The Island of Dr. Moreau

19964.9

Mutiny on the Bounty

19627.1

Guys and Dolls

19556.6

Julius Caesar

19537.1

One-Eyed Jacks

19616.8

The Wild One

19536.6

The Freshman

19906.3

Viva Zapata!

19526.9

The Movie Orgy

19686.7

The Young Lions

19586.8

Chaos: The Manson Murders

20256.1

A Countess from Hong Kong

19676.0

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

20217.4

The Missouri Breaks

19766.5

Sayonara

19576.7

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

19917.9

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Free Money

19985.4

kid 90

20217.0

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

19928.9

The Brave

19976.0

Désirée

19546.6

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

20169.0

Morituri

19656.8

Hollywood Invasion

20116.0

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

19924.8

The Fugitive Kind

19606.9

The Formula

19805.6

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

20146.7

The Appaloosa

19666.4

Tab Hunter Confidential

20157.3

Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration

20018.0

Hollywood: No Sex, Please!

20185.5

The Men

19507.0

Burn!

19696.8

Naqoyqatsi

20026.2

The Teahouse of the August Moon

19576.2

Reflections in a Golden Eye

19676.5

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

19946.5

Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild

20042.0

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

19826.8

A Dry White Season

19896.7

Hello Actors Studio

19886.7

The Ugly American

19636.6

Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth

20207.5

Hollywood sul Tevere

2009

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

Bedtime Story

19646.3

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

19707.3

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

20037.0

Brando

20076.8

Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend

20215.0

Listen to Me Marlon

20157.5

Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius

20217.2

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989

The Nightcomers

19725.7

The Godfather: Behind the Scenes

1971

Ballybrando

200910.0

Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity

19995.9

Desire and Censorship

20063.0

Anthony Quinn: An Original

19906.8

Raoni

19786.0

Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage

20256.0

Always Brando

2011

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

20018.5

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

19886.0

The Godfather and the Mob

20067.0

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

19999.0

The Night of the Following Day

19696.0

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

20147.2

Horrifying Hollywood Murders

2026

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

19886.0

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

20195.7

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

19747.2

Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

20017.2

Black Leather Jacket

19899.0

A Streetcar on Broadway

20066.5

Meet Marlon Brando

19666.9

Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star

198710.0

Marlon Brando in Paradise

20245.0

The Madding Crowd

2017

Sophia Loren, a special destiny

20196.9

Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man

20225.0

Making Montgomery Clift

20187.8

All-Time Movie Greats

1988

All Power to the People!

19966.3

Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye

2006

Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey

19956.1

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

20017.6

A Huey P. Newton Story

20015.4

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

19949.0

1955, Seven Days of Fall

2005

Sacheen: Breaking the Silence

2019

A Streetcar in Hollywood

20066.5

Brando: An Icon Is Born

20077.0

An Actor Named Brando

2006

The Last Days of Marlon Brando

20087.0

North and the Music of the South

2006

Humpty Dumpty X

2026

Movie Tough Guys

199110.0

Lost in "The Thinking"

20057.0

Operation Teahouse

19566.5

Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris

20048.5

The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972

2022

The Shadows Of Method

2026