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".
| 2025 | Le mirage tahitien de Marlon Brando as Self (archive) - subject |
| 2025 | Kaos: Manson Vakası as Self - Activist (archive footage) |
| 2024 | Marlon Brando: Im Paradies as Self - Actor (archive footage) |
| 2024 | Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain as Self |
| 2023 | Lynch/Oz as Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Flashing Images of Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski/Self |
| 2022 | The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972 as Himself |
| 2021 | Daniel Day-Lewis : l'héritier as Himself (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Rita Moreno: Kararlı Bir Kız as Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | kid 90 as Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Sophia Loren, une destinée particulière as Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood as (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Sacheen: Breaking the Silence as Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Making Montgomery Clift as Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Hollywood: No Sex, Please! |
| 2017 | The Madding Crowd as Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959 as Don Vito Corleone |
| 2015 | Dinle Beni Marlon as Self (voice) (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Tab Hunter Confidential as Self (archive footage) |
| 2014 | Marlon Brando, un acteur nommé désir as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage) |
| 2014 | Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau as Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Son Kurgu: Bayanlar ve Baylar as (archive footage) |
| 2011 | Always Brando |
| 2011 | Hollywood Invasion as Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Ballybrando as Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Hollywood sul Tevere |
| 2008 | Les derniers jours de Marlon Brando as Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Brando: An Icon Is Born as Himself (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Brando as Self (archive footage) |
| 2006 | Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut as Jor-El |
| 2006 | Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye as Self (archival) |
| 2006 | Superman Dönüyor as Jor-El |
| 2006 | An Actor Named Brando as Self (archive footage) |
| 2006 | The Godfather and the Mob as Self (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Lost in "The Thinking" as Jor-El (archive footage) |
| 2005 | 1955, Seven Days of Fall as (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Il était une fois... Le dernier tango à Paris as Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild as Self(archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2003 | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self (archive footage) |
| 2002 | Naqoyqatsi as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2001 | Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration as Self |
| 2001 | Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies as Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | Komplo as Max |
| 2001 | A Huey P. Newton Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2001 | Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend as Self |
| 2001 | Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman' as Self |
| 1999 | Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1999 | Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity as Self |
| 1998 | Adaletin Nefesi as Warden Sven 'The Swede' Sorenson |
| 1997 | The Brave as McCarthy |
| 1996 | Dr. Moreau'nun Adası as Dr. Moreau |
| 1996 | All Power to the People! as Self (archive footage) |
| 1994 | Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage as Stanley Kowalski / Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (archive footage) |
| 1994 | Don Juan DeMarco as Dr. Jack Mickler |
| 1994 | Marlon Brando: The Wild One as Self (archive footage) |
| 1992 | The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 as Don Vito Corleone |
| 1992 | Christopher Columbus: The Discovery as Tomas de Torquemada |
| 1991 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as Self |
| 1991 | Movie Tough Guys as Self (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Anthony Quinn: An Original as Self (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Akıl Hocası as Carmine Sabatini, aka Jimmy The Toucan |
| 1989 | Kuru Beyaz Bir Mevsim as Ian McKenzie |
| 1989 | Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self (voice) |
| 1989 | Black Leather Jacket as Johnny Strabler (segment "The Wild One") (archive footage) |
| 1988 | Hello Actors Studio as Self (archive footage) |
| 1988 | John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1988 | Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC as Self (archive footage) |
| 1987 | Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star as Self (archive footage) |
| 1982 | The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' as Self |
| 1980 | The Formula as Adam Steiffel |
| 1979 | Kıyamet as Colonel Walter Kurtz |
| 1978 | Superman as Jor-El |
| 1978 | Raoni as Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1976 | Bozgun as Robert E. Lee Clayton |
| 1974 | Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1972 | Paris'te Son Tango as Paul |
| 1972 | Baba as Don Vito Corleone |
| 1972 | The Nightcomers as Peter Quint |
| 1971 | The Godfather: Behind the Scenes as Self |
| 1970 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage) |
| 1969 | İsyan as Sir William Walker |
| 1969 | The Night of the Following Day as Chauffeur |
| 1968 | Candy as Grindl |
| 1968 | The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage) |
| 1967 | Reflections in a Golden Eye as Maj. Weldon Penderton |
| 1967 | Hong Kong'lu Kontes as Ogden Mears |
| 1966 | Meet Marlon Brando as Self |
| 1966 | The Appaloosa as Matt |
| 1966 | Takip as Sheriff Calder |
| 1965 | Morituri as Robert Crain |
| 1964 | Yatak Hikâyesi as Freddy Benson |
| 1963 | The Ugly American as Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite |
| 1962 | Gemide İsyan as First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian |
| 1961 | Aşk ve İntikam as Rio |
| 1960 | The Fugitive Kind as Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier |
| 1958 | The Young Lions as Lt. Christian Diestl |
| 1957 | Sayonara as Major Lloyd Gruver |
| 1957 | The Teahouse of the August Moon as Sakini |
| 1956 | Operation Teahouse as Self |
| 1955 | Gönül Yolu as Sky Masterson |
| 1954 | Désirée as Napoleon Bonaparte |
| 1954 | Rıhtımlar Üzerinde as Terry Malloy |
| 1953 | Kanlı Hücum as Johnny Strabler |
| 1953 | Jül Sezar as Mark Antony |
| 1952 | Yaşasın Zapata! as Emiliano Zapata |
| 1951 | İhtiras Tramvayı as Stanley Kowalski |
| 1950 | The Men as Ken |
| Horrifying Hollywood Murders as Self (archive footage) |
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