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".
117 movies · 17 shows
The Shadows Of Method
2026·0.0
Humpty Dumpty X
2026·0.0
Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage
2025·6.0
Chaos: The Manson Murders
2025·6.1
Marlon Brando in Paradise
2024·5.0
Flashing Images of Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando
2023·0.0
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
2022·0.0
Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man
2022·5.0
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
2021·7.2
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021·7.4
kid 90
2021·7.0
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021·5.0
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
2020·7.5
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
2019·6.9
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
2019·5.7
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
2019·0.0
Making Montgomery Clift
2018·7.8
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018·5.5
The Madding Crowd
2017·0.0
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016·9.0
Listen to Me Marlon
2015·7.5
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015·7.3
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014·7.2
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014·6.7
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012·7.6
Always Brando
2011·0.0
Hollywood Invasion
2011·6.0
Ballybrando
2009·10.0
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009·0.0
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
2008·7.0
Brando: An Icon Is Born
2007·7.0
Brando
2007·6.8
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006·7.4
Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye
2006·0.0
Superman Returns
2006·5.8
An Actor Named Brando
2006·0.0
A Streetcar in Hollywood
2006·6.5
Desire and Censorship
2006·3.0
North and the Music of the South
2006·0.0
The Godfather and the Mob
2006·7.0
A Streetcar on Broadway
2006·6.5
Lost in "The Thinking"
2005·7.0
1955, Seven Days of Fall
2005·0.0
Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
2004·8.5
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004·2.0
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003·7.0
Naqoyqatsi
2002·6.1
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
2001·8.0
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001·8.5
The Score
2001·6.7
A Huey P. Newton Story
2001·5.4
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
2001·7.6
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
2001·7.2
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
1999·9.0
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
1999·5.9
Free Money
1998·5.4
The Brave
1997·6.0
The Island of Dr. Moreau
1996·4.9
All Power to the People!
1996·6.3
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
1995·6.1
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995·8.0
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994·9.0
Don Juan DeMarco
1994·6.8
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994·6.5
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992·8.9
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
1992·4.8
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991·7.9
Movie Tough Guys
1991·10.0
Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990·6.8
The Freshman
1990·6.3
A Dry White Season
1989·6.7
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989·0.0
Black Leather Jacket
1989·9.0
Hello Actors Studio
1988·6.7
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988·6.0
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988·6.0
All-Time Movie Greats
1988·0.0
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
1987·10.0
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982·6.8
The Formula
1980·5.6
Apocalypse Now
1979·8.3
Superman
1978·7.2
Raoni
1978·6.0
The Missouri Breaks
1976·6.5
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974·7.2
Last Tango in Paris
1972·6.9
The Godfather
1972·8.7
The Nightcomers
1972·5.7
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
1971·0.0
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970·7.3
Burn!
1969·6.8
The Night of the Following Day
1969·6.0
Candy
1968·5.1
The Movie Orgy
1968·6.7
Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967·6.5
A Countess from Hong Kong
1967·6.0
Meet Marlon Brando
1966·6.9
The Appaloosa
1966·6.4
The Chase
1966·7.1
Morituri
1965·6.8
Bedtime Story
1964·6.3
The Ugly American
1963·6.6
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962·7.1
One-Eyed Jacks
1961·6.8
The Fugitive Kind
1960·6.9
The Young Lions
1958·6.8
Sayonara
1957·6.7
The Teahouse of the August Moon
1957·6.2
Operation Teahouse
1956·6.5
Guys and Dolls
1955·6.6
Désirée
1954·6.6
On the Waterfront
1954·7.9
The Wild One
1953·6.6
Julius Caesar
1953·7.1
Viva Zapata!
1952·6.9
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951·7.6
The Men
1950·7.0