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Marlon Brando
Actor, Director, Additional Credits
Born April 3, 1924Died July 1, 2004 (80 years)
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".
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".
Movies & Shows on Plex
Known For
Marlon Brando Filmography
| 2020 | Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation · as Stanley |
| 2019 | Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood · as (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | |
| 2016 | The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959 · as Don Vito Corleone |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen · as (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | |
| 2008 | Truly, Madly, Cheaply!: British B Movies · as Johnny Strabler |
| 2006 | Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut · as Jor-El |
| 2006 | Superman Returns · as Jor-El |
| 2006 | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters · as Don Vito Corleone |
| 2006 | Big Bug Man · as Mrs. Sour |
| 2005 | Bullets Over Hollywood · as Cast |
| 2005 | 1955, Seven Days of Fall · as (archive Footage) |
| 2005 | Filmmakers vs. Tycoons · as Cast |
| 2004 | Michael Jackson: The One · as Boss (segment: You Rock My World) |
| 2003 | Michael Jackson: Number Ones · as Boss (segment: You Rock My World) |
| 2003 | Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years · as Ogden Mears |
| 2001 | The Score · as Max |
| 1999 | ABC 2000: The Millennium · as Cast |
| 1998 | Free Money · as Warden Sven 'the Swede' Sorenson |
| 1998 | |
| 1997 | The Brave · as Mccarthy |
| 1996 | The Island of Dr. Moreau · as Dr. Moreau |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series) |
| 1994 | Don Juan DeMarco · as Dr. Jack Mickler |
| 1994 | Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult · as Don Corleone |
| 1992 | The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 · as Don Vito Corleone |
| 1992 | Christopher Columbus: The Discovery · as Tomas De Torquemada |
| 1990 | Hollywood Mavericks · as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz |
| 1990 | The Freshman · as Carmine Sabatini, Aka Jimmy The Toucan |
| 1990 | The 62nd Annual Academy Awards · as Ian Mckenzie |
| 1989 | A Dry White Season · as Ian Mckenzie |
| 1987 | Apocalypse Pooh · as Colonel Kurtz |
| 1981 | Sixty Years of Seduction · as Cast |
| 1980 | The Formula · as Adam Steiffel |
| 1979 | Apocalypse Now · as Colonel Walter Kurtz |
| 1979 | Roots: The Next Generations (TV Series) · as George Lincoln Rockwell |
| 1978 | Superman · as Jor-El |
| 1977 | The Godfather: A Novel for Television (TV Series) · as Don Vito Corleone |
| 1977 | The Hollywood Greats (TV Series) |
| 1976 | America at the Movies · as Terry Malloy |
| 1976 | The Missouri Breaks · as Robert E. Lee Clayton |
| 1972 | Last Tango in Paris · as Paul |
| 1972 | The Godfather · as Don Vito Corleone |
| 1971 | The Nightcomers · as Peter Quint |
| 1969 | Burn! · as Sir William Walker |
| 1969 | The Night of the Following Day · as Chauffeur |
| 1968 | |
| 1967 | Reflections in a Golden Eye · as Maj. Weldon Penderton |
| 1967 | A Countess from Hong Kong · as Ogden Mears |
| 1966 | The Appaloosa · as Matt |
| 1966 | The Chase · as Sheriff Calder |
| 1965 | Morituri · as Robert Crain |
| 1964 | Bedtime Story · as Freddy Benson |
| 1963 | The Ugly American · as Ambassador Harrison Carter Macwhite |
| 1962 | Mutiny on the Bounty · as First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian |
| 1961 | One-Eyed Jacks · as Rio |
| 1960 | The Fugitive Kind · as Valentine 'snakeskin' Xavier |
| 1958 | The Young Lions · as Lt. Christian Diestl |
| 1957 | Sayonara · as Major Lloyd Gruver |
| 1956 | The Teahouse of the August Moon · as Sakini |
| 1955 | Guys and Dolls · as Sky Masterson |
| 1955 | MGM Parade (TV Series) |
| 1954 | Désirée · as Napoleon Bonaparte |
| 1954 | On the Waterfront · as Terry Malloy |
| 1953 | The Wild One · as Johnny Strabler |
| 1953 | Julius Caesar · as Mark Antony |
| 1952 | Omnibus (TV Series) · as Stanley |
| 1952 | Viva Zapata! · as Emiliano Zapata |
| 1951 | A Streetcar Named Desire · as Stanley Kowalski |
| 1950 | The Men · as Ken |
| 1948 | Actors Studio (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2025 | Bearing Witness, Native American Voices in Hollywood · as Self - Actor |
| 2025 | Chaos: The Manson Murders · as Self - Activist (archive Footage) |
| 2024 | Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2024 | Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes · as Self - Actor |
| 2024 | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story · as Self - Actor, Superman |
| 2024 | Marlon Brando in Paradise · as Self - Actor (archive Footage) |
| 2024 | |
| 2023 | The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout · as Self - Considered For 'temujin' |
| 2023 | Sly · as Self |
| 2023 | Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed · as Self |
| 2023 | Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes · as Self |
| 2023 | Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing · as Self |
| 2022 | Johnny Depp: The Love of the Bizarre · as Self |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | Lynch/Oz · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | Al Pacino, le Bronx et la fureur · as Self |
| 2022 | This Is Joan Collins · as Self |
| 2021 | Mr. Saturday Night · as Self |
| 2021 | King of Cool · as Self |
| 2021 | Daniel Day Lewis - The Heir · as Himself (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Val · as Self |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Kid 90 · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Canaan Land · as Self |
| 2020 | Jay Sebring.... Cutting to the Truth · as Self |
| 2020 | In the Name of Zion · as Self |
| 2020 | Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies · as Self |
| 2019 | Sophia Loren · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | La passione di Anna Magnani · as Self |
| 2019 | Sacheen · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Making Montgomery Clift · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael · as Self - Actor, The Godfather |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | Spielberg · as Self - Segment "the Godfather" |
| 2017 | |
| 2016 | I Am Not Your Negro · as Self |
| 2016 | Becoming Mike Nichols · as Self |
| 2015 | |
| 2015 | Tab Hunter Confidential · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2015 | Listen to Me Marlon · as Self (voice) (archive Footage) |
| 2014 | Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire · 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) |
| 2014 | The Sixties (TV Series) · as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive Footage) |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes to... · as Self |
| 2014 | Éternelle Jean Seberg · as Self |
| 2013 | The March · as Self |
| 2012 | God Is the Bigger Elvis · as Self |
| 2011 | Sing Your Song · as Self |
| 2011 | Marlon Brando tuli Suomeen · as Self |
| 2010 | Smash His Camera · as Self |
| 2009 | Reel Injun · as Self |
| 2009 | Hollywood on the Tiber · as Self |
| 2009 | The 81st Annual Academy Awards · as Self |
| 2008 | Mike Douglas: Moments & Memories · as Self |
| 2007 | Brando · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2007 | Larry King Live: The Greatest Interviews · as Self |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | 20 Most Horrifying Hollywood Murders · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2006 | The Curse of Superman · as Self |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | The Godfather and the Mob · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2006 | Ban the Sadist Videos! Part 2 · as Self |
| 2005 | The 77th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Memorial Tribute |
| 2005 | 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self - Memorial Tribute |
| 2004 | The 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - In Memoriam |
| 2003 | Sex at 24 Frames Per Second · as Self |
| 2003 | Celebrities Uncensored (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | The 100 Greatest Movie Stars · as Self |
| 2003 | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2003 | Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) · as Self |
| 2002 | Naqoyqatsi · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2001 | |
| 2001 | A Huey P. Newton Story · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1999 | |
| 1997 | |
| 1997 | The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender · as Self |
| 1996 | All Power to the People! (the Black Panther Party and Beyond) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1995 | |
| 1995 | Empire of the Censors · as Self |
| 1994 | Marlon Brando: Wild One · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1994 | 100 Years at the Movies · as Self |
| 1993 | |
| 1993 | |
| 1993 | Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. · as Self |
| 1993 | Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro · as Self |
| 1993 | Fame in the 20th Century (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | |
| 1991 | |
| 1991 | Movie Tough Guys · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1990 | The Godfather Family: A Look Inside · as Self |
| 1990 | The Hollywood Collection: Anthony Quinn an Original · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1988 | John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1985 | Larry King Live (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1980 | The Making of Superman: The Movie · as Self |
| 1978 | Hollywood's Diamond Jubilee · as Self - Interviewee |
| 1978 | Raoni · as Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1975 | Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1973 | Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1972 | Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1972 | Midi Trente (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1969 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1968 | The Movie Orgy · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1963 | Hollywood: The Great Stars · as Self |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1959 | CBS Reports (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1958 | The 30th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 1956 | The 28th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1955 | The 27th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Presenter & Winner |
| 1954 | Camera Three (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1954 | The 26th Annual Academy Awards · as Self |
| 1953 | Person to Person (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1953 | The Academy Awards (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | Mutiny on the Bounty · as Consultant |