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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 3, 1924
Died
July 1, 2004
Place of Birth
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Also Known As
- Marlon Brando Jr.
- Bud
- Marlon Brando Junior
- Mar
Marlon Brando
2.3 Popularity
Biography
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".
Known For
6.0
Self (archive) - subject
Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage
2025
8.7
Self (archive footage)
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
2024
0.0
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Marlon Brando in Paradise
2024
8.6
Self
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
2023
10.0
Prank Call Voice
Star 67
2023
0.0
Stanley Kowalski/Self
Flashing Images of Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando
2023
0.0
Himself
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
2022
7.2
Himself (archive footage)
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
2021
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021
7.1
Self (archive footage)
kid 90
2021
Credits
Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage
as Self (archive) - subject
2025
6.0
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
as Self (archive footage)
2024
8.7
Marlon Brando in Paradise
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2024
0.0
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
as Self
2023
8.6
Star 67
as Prank Call Voice
2023
10.0
Flashing Images of Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando
as Stanley Kowalski/Self
2023
0.0
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
as Himself
2022
0.0
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
as Himself (archive footage)
2021
7.2
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
as Self (archive footage)
2021
7.5
kid 90
as Self (archive footage)
2021
7.1
🎬
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
as Self (archive footage)
2021
5.0
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
as Self (archive footage)
2019
7.0
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
as (archive footage)
2019
5.7
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
as Self (archive footage)
2019
0.0
Making Montgomery Clift
as Self (archive footage)
2018
7.8
The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
2017
0.0
Listen to Me Marlon
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2015
7.5
Tab Hunter Confidential
as Self (archive footage)
2015
7.3
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
2014
7.3
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self (archive footage)
2014
6.7
The Sixties
as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)
2014
7.4
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
7.6
Hollywood Invasion
as Self (archive footage)
2011
0.0
Ballybrando
as Self (archive footage)
2009
10.0
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
as Self (archive footage)
2008
7.0
Brando: An Icon Is Born
as Himself (archive footage)
2007
7.0
Brando: The Documentary
as Self
2007
4.5
Brando
as Self (archive footage)
2007
6.8
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
as Jor-El
2006
7.4
Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye
as Self (archival)
2006
0.0
Superman Returns
as Jor-El
2006
5.8
An Actor Named Brando
as Self (archive footage)
2006
0.0
The Godfather and the Mob
as Self (archive footage)
2006
7.0
Lost in "The Thinking"
as Jor-El (archive footage)
2005
0.0
1955, Seven Days of Fall
as (archive footage)
2005
0.0
Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
as Self (archive footage)
2004
7.0
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
as Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
2004
2.0
Celebrities Uncensored
as Self
2003
4.0
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage)
2003
7.0
Naqoyqatsi
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
6.1
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
2001
8.0
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
as Self (archive footage)
2001
8.0
The Score
as Max
2001
6.7
A Huey P. Newton Story
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
5.1
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
as Self
2001
6.8
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
as Self
2001
7.8
Come vorresti che fosse il futuro?
as Self
2000
0.0
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999
0.0
🎬
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
as Self
1999
5.9
Free Money
as Warden Sven 'The Swede' Sorenson
1998
5.4
The Brave
as McCarthy
1997
6.0
The Island of Dr. Moreau
as Dr. Moreau
1996
4.9
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
All Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage)
1996
5.8
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Stanley Kowalski / Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (archive footage)
1994
0.0
Don Juan DeMarco
as Dr. Jack Mickler
1994
6.7
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
as Self (archive footage)
1994
6.0
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
as Don Vito Corleone
1992
8.9
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
as Tomas de Torquemada
1992
4.7
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
as Self
1991
7.9
Movie Tough Guys
as Self (archive footage)
1991
10.0
Anthony Quinn: An Original
as Self (archive footage)
1990
6.7
The Freshman
as Carmine Sabatini, aka Jimmy The Toucan
1990
6.3
A Dry White Season
as Ian McKenzie
1989
6.6
🎬
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
1989
0.0
Black Leather Jacket
as Johnny Strabler (segment "The Wild One") (archive footage)
1989
0.0
Hello Actors Studio
as Self (archive footage)
1988
6.5
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
5.9
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage)
1988
6.0
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
as Self (archive footage)
1987
0.0
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
as Self
1982
6.4
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
as Don Vito Corleone
1981
8.9
The Formula
as Adam Steiffel
1980
5.5
Apocalypse Now
as Colonel Walter Kurtz
1979
8.3
Roots: The Next Generations
as George Lincoln Rockwell
1979
7.5
Superman
as Jor-El
1978
7.2
🎬
Raoni
as Narrator
1978
5.0
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
as Don Vito Corleone
1977
8.6
The Hollywood Greats
1977
3.5
🎬
The English Programme
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1976
0.0
The Missouri Breaks
as Robert E. Lee Clayton
1976
6.5
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
7.0
Last Tango in Paris
as Paul
1972
6.9
The Godfather
as Don Vito Corleone
1972
8.7
🎬
Midi trente
as Self
1972
6.0
The Nightcomers
as Peter Quint
1972
5.6
🎬
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
as Self
1971
0.0
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
1970
7.1
Burn!
as Sir William Walker
1969
6.8
The Night of the Following Day
as Chauffeur
1969
6.0
Candy
as Grindl
1968
5.1
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
1968
6.3
Reflections in a Golden Eye
as Maj. Weldon Penderton
1967
6.4
A Countess from Hong Kong
as Ogden Mears
1967
6.0
Meet Marlon Brando
as Self
1966
6.6
The Appaloosa
as Matt
1966
6.3
The Chase
as Sheriff Calder
1966
7.1
Morituri
as Robert Crain
1965
6.8
Bedtime Story
as Freddy Benson
1964
6.2
The Ugly American
as Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite
1963
6.6
Mutiny on the Bounty
as First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian
1962
7.0
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
One-Eyed Jacks
as Rio
1961
6.7
The Fugitive Kind
as Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier
1960
6.8
The David Susskind Show
as Self
1959
5.0
The Young Lions
as Lt. Christian Diestl
1958
6.8
Sayonara
as Major Lloyd Gruver
1957
6.7
The Teahouse of the August Moon
as Sakini
1957
6.2
Operation Teahouse
as Self
1956
0.0
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
Guys and Dolls
as Sky Masterson
1955
6.5
Désirée
as Napoleon Bonaparte
1954
6.6
On the Waterfront
as Terry Malloy
1954
7.9
The Wild One
as Johnny Strabler
1953
6.6
Julius Caesar
as Mark Antony
1953
7.1
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Viva Zapata!
as Emiliano Zapata
1952
6.9
A Streetcar Named Desire
as Stanley Kowalski
1951
7.6
The Men
as Ken
1950
7.0
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Superman Redeemed
as Jor-El (Voice Only)
N/A
0.0