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".
Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage
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Chaos: The Manson Murders
Self - Activist (archive footage)
Marlon Brando in Paradise
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Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
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Lynch/Oz
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Flashing Images of Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando
Stanley Kowalski/Self
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
Himself
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
Himself (archive footage)
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
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kid 90
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Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
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Sophia Loren, a special destiny
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Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
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Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Self (archive footage)
Making Montgomery Clift
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Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
The Madding Crowd
Self (archive footage)
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Don Vito Corleone
Listen to Me Marlon
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Tab Hunter Confidential
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Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
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Always Brando
Hollywood Invasion
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Ballybrando
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Hollywood sul Tevere
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
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Brando: An Icon Is Born
Himself (archive footage)
Brando
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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Jor-El
Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye
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Superman Returns
Jor-El
An Actor Named Brando
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The Godfather and the Mob
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Lost in "The Thinking"
Jor-El (archive footage)
1955, Seven Days of Fall
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Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
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Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
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Naqoyqatsi
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Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
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Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
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The Score
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A Huey P. Newton Story
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
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Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
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Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
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Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
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Free Money
Warden Sven 'The Swede' Sorenson
The Brave
McCarthy
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Dr. Moreau
All Power to the People!
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Stanley Kowalski / Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (archive footage)
Don Juan DeMarco
Dr. Jack Mickler
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Self (archive footage)
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Don Vito Corleone
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Tomas de Torquemada
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
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Movie Tough Guys
Self (archive footage)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
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The Freshman
Carmine Sabatini, aka Jimmy The Toucan
A Dry White Season
Ian McKenzie
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
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Black Leather Jacket
Johnny Strabler (segment "The Wild One") (archive footage)
Hello Actors Studio
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
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Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
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The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
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The Formula
Adam Steiffel
Apocalypse Now
Colonel Walter Kurtz
Superman
Jor-El
Raoni
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The Missouri Breaks
Robert E. Lee Clayton
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Last Tango in Paris
Paul
The Godfather
Don Vito Corleone
The Nightcomers
Peter Quint
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
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Burn!
Sir William Walker
The Night of the Following Day
Chauffeur
Candy
Grindl
The Movie Orgy
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Reflections in a Golden Eye
Maj. Weldon Penderton
A Countess from Hong Kong
Ogden Mears
Meet Marlon Brando
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The Appaloosa
Matt
The Chase
Sheriff Calder
Morituri
Robert Crain
Bedtime Story
Freddy Benson
The Ugly American
Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite
Mutiny on the Bounty
First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian
One-Eyed Jacks
Rio
The Fugitive Kind
Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier
The Young Lions
Lt. Christian Diestl
Sayonara
Major Lloyd Gruver
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Sakini
Operation Teahouse
Self
Guys and Dolls
Sky Masterson
Désirée
Napoleon Bonaparte
On the Waterfront
Terry Malloy
The Wild One
Johnny Strabler
Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
Viva Zapata!
Emiliano Zapata
A Streetcar Named Desire
Stanley Kowalski
The Men
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