Born
3 April 1924 (101)
Place of Birth
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Also known as
Marlon Brando Jr., Marlon Brando Junior
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 be...
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".
Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage
2025
Chaos: The Manson Murders
2025
Marlon Brando in Paradise
2024
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
2024
Flashing Images of Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando
2023
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
2022
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
2021
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021
kid 90
2021
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
2019
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
2019
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019
Making Montgomery Clift
2018
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
The Madding Crowd
2017
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016
Listen to Me Marlon
2015
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Always Brando
2011
Hollywood Invasion
2011
Ballybrando
2009
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
2008
Brando: An Icon Is Born
2007
Brando
2007
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye
2006
Superman Returns
2006
An Actor Named Brando
2006
The Godfather and the Mob
2006
Lost in "The Thinking"
2005
1955, Seven Days of Fall
2005
Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
2004
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
Naqoyqatsi
2002