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