Marlon Brando
Acting
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".
Mutiny on the Bounty
as First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian
Age 38 (now 80)
Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage
as Self (archive) - subject
Age 101 (now 80)
Chaos: The Manson Murders
as Self - Activist (archive footage)
Age 100 (now 80)
Marlon Brando in Paradise
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Age 99 (now 80)
Flashing Images of Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando
as Stanley Kowalski/Self
Age 99 (now 80)
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
as Himself
Age 98 (now 80)
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
as Himself (archive footage)
Age 97 (now 80)
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
as Self (archive footage)
Age 97 (now 80)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
as Self (archive footage)
Age 96 (now 80)
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
as Self(archive footage)
Age 95 (now 80)
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
as Self (archive footage)
Age 95 (now 80)
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
as (archive footage)
Age 95 (now 80)
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
as Self (archive footage)
Age 95 (now 80)
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
as Don Vito Corleone
Age 91 (now 80)
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
Age 90 (now 80)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self (archive footage)
Age 90 (now 80)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Age 87 (now 80)
Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus!
Thanks
Age 86 (now 80)
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
as Self (archive footage)
Age 83 (now 80)
Brando: An Icon Is Born
as Himself (archive footage)
Age 83 (now 80)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
as Jor-El
Age 82 (now 80)
Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye
as Self (archival)
Age 82 (now 80)
The Godfather and the Mob
as Self (archive footage)
Age 82 (now 80)
Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
as Self (archive footage)
Age 80
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
as Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 80
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage)
Age 78 (now 80)
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
Age 77 (now 80)
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
as Self (archive footage)
Age 77 (now 80)
A Huey P. Newton Story
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 77 (now 80)
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
as Self
Age 77 (now 80)
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
as Self
Age 77 (now 80)
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 74 (now 80)Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
as Self
Age 74 (now 80)
All Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage)
Age 72 (now 80)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Stanley Kowalski / Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (archive footage)
Age 70 (now 80)
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
as Self (archive footage)
Age 70 (now 80)
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
as Don Vito Corleone
Age 68 (now 80)
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
as Tomas de Torquemada
Age 68 (now 80)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
as Self
Age 67 (now 80)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
as Self (archive footage)
Age 66 (now 80)
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
Age 65 (now 80)
Black Leather Jacket
as Johnny Strabler (segment "The Wild One") (archive footage)
Age 64 (now 80)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 64 (now 80)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 64 (now 80)
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
as Self (archive footage)
Age 63 (now 80)
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
as Self
Age 57 (now 80)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 50 (now 80)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
Age 45 (now 80)
Reflections in a Golden Eye
as Maj. Weldon Penderton
Age 43 (now 80)
Mutiny on the Bounty
as First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian
Age 38 (now 80)
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
as Self (archive footage)
Age 100 (now 80)
The Sixties
as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
Age 90 (now 80)
Roots: The Next Generations
as George Lincoln Rockwell
Age 54 (now 80)
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
as Don Vito Corleone
Age 53 (now 80)
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Also Known As
Marlon Brando Jr., Marlon Brando Junior
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