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".
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Movies (118)
Humpty Dumpty X
2026 · Self
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
2025 · Self (archive footage)
Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage
2025 · Self (archive) - subject
Caos: Los crímenes de Manson
2025 · Self - Activist (archive footage)
Marlon Brando in Paradise
2024 · Self - Actor (archive footage)
Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man
2023
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
2022 · Himself
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
2021 · Himself (archive footage)
Val
2021 · Self (archive)
Rita Moreno: Una chica decidida a lograrlo
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
2020 · Self(archive footage)
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
2019 · (archive footage)
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Making Montgomery Clift
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
The Madding Crowd
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Listen to Me Marlon
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015 · Self (archive)
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014 · Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014 · Self (archive footage)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012 · (archive footage)
Always Brando
2011 · Self
Hollywood Invasion
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus!
2010 · Thanks
Ballybrando
2009 · Self (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
2008 · Self (archive footage)
Brando: An Icon Is Born
2007 · Himself (archive footage)
Brando
2007 · Self (archive footage)
Superman II: El montaje de Richard Donner
2006 · Jor-El
Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye
2006 · Self (archive footage)
Superman Regresa
2006 · Jor-El (archive footage)
An Actor Named Brando
2006 · Self (archive footage)
A Streetcar in Hollywood
2006 · Self (archive footage)
Desire and Censorship
2006 · Self (archive footage)
North and the Music of the South
2006 · Self (archive footage)
The Godfather and the Mob
2006 · Self (archive footage)
A Streetcar on Broadway
2006 · Self (archive footage)
Lost in "The Thinking"
2005 · Jor-El (archive footage)
Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
2004 · Self (archive footage)
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 · Self (archive footage)
Naqoyqatsi
2002 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
2001 · Self
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001 · Self (archive footage)
Cuenta final
2001 · Max
A Huey P. Newton Story
2001 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
2001 · Self
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
2001 · Self
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
1999 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
1999 · Self
Free Money
1998 · Warden Sven 'The Swede' Sorenson
The Brave
1997 · McCarthy
La isla del Dr. Moreau
1996 · Dr. Moreau
All Power to the People!
1996 · Self (archive footage)
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
1995 · Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Self (archive footage)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994 · Stanley Kowalski / Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (archive footage)
Don Juan DeMarco
1994 · Dr. Jack Mickler
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994 · Self (archive footage)
En el nombre del padre
1993 · Thanks
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992 · Don Vito Corleone
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
1992 · Tomas de Torquemada
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991 · Self
Movie Tough Guys
1991 · Self (archive footage)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990 · Self (archive footage)
Un novato en la mafia
1990 · Carmine Sabatini, aka Jimmy The Toucan
A Dry White Season
1989 · Ian McKenzie
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989 · Self (voice)
Black Leather Jacket
1989 · Johnny Strabler (segment "The Wild One") (archive footage)
Hello Actors Studio
1988 · Self (archive footage)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
All-Time Movie Greats
1988 · Self (archive footage)
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
1987 · Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982 · Self
The Formula
1980 · Adam Steiffel
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Colonel Walter Kurtz
Superman
1978 · Jor-El
Raoni
1978 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Missouri Breaks
1976 · Robert E. Lee Clayton
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Last Tango in Paris
1972 · Paul
The Godfather
1972 · Don Vito Corleone
The Nightcomers
1972 · Peter Quint
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
1971 · Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970 · Self (archive footage)
Burn!
1969 · Sir William Walker
The Night of the Following Day
1969 · Chauffeur
Candy
1968 · Grindl
The Movie Orgy
1968 · Self (archive footage)
Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967 · Maj. Weldon Penderton
A Countess from Hong Kong
1967 · Ogden Mears
Meet Marlon Brando
1966 · Self
The Appaloosa
1966 · Matt
The Chase
1966 · Sheriff Calder
Morituri
1965 · Robert Crain
Bedtime Story
1964 · Freddy Benson
The Ugly American
1963 · Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962 · First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian
One-Eyed Jacks
1961 · Rio, Director
The Fugitive Kind
1960 · Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier
The Young Lions
1958 · Lt. Christian Diestl
Sayonara
1957 · Major Lloyd Gruver
The Teahouse of the August Moon
1957 · Sakini
Operation Teahouse
1956 · Self
Guys and Dolls
1955 · Sky Masterson
Désirée
1954 · Napoleon Bonaparte
On the Waterfront
1954 · Terry Malloy
The Wild One
1953 · Johnny Strabler
Julius Caesar
1953 · Mark Antony
Viva Zapata!
1952 · Emiliano Zapata
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 · Stanley Kowalski
The Men
1950 · Ken
Horrifying Hollywood Murders
· Self (archive footage)
Michael Jackson: You Rock My World
· Boss
TV shows (17)
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Los 60
2014 · Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
Brando: The Documentary
2007 · Self (archive footage)
Celebrities Uncensored
2003 · Self
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Roots: The Next Generations
1979 · George Lincoln Rockwell
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977 · Don Vito Corleone
The Hollywood Greats
1977 · Self (archive footage)
The English Programme
1976 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Midi trente
1972 · Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
The David Susskind Show
1959 · Self
Cinépanorama
1956 · Self
MGM Parade
1955
The Oscars
1953 · Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self