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