Acting
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".
Filmography
Humpty Dumpty X
Film · 2026
Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage
Film · 2025
Chaos: The Manson Murders
Film · 2025
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Film · 2025
Marlon Brando in Paradise
Film · 2024
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
Series · 2024
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
Film · 2022
Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man
Film · 2022
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Film · 2021
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
Film · 2021
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Film · 2021
Val
Film · 2021
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
Film · 2020
Sophia Loren, a special destiny
Film · 2019
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
Film · 2019
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence
Film · 2019
Making Montgomery Clift
Film · 2018
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Film · 2018
The Madding Crowd
Film · 2017
Tab Hunter Confidential
Film · 2015
Listen to Me Marlon
Film · 2015
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Film · 2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Film · 2014
The Sixties
Series · 2014
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Film · 2012
Hollywood Invasion
Film · 2011
Always Brando
Film · 2011
Ballybrando
Film · 2009
Hollywood sul Tevere
Film · 2009
The Last Days of Marlon Brando
Film · 2008
Brando: An Icon Is Born
Film · 2007
Brando
Film · 2007
Brando: The Documentary
Series · 2007
Superman Returns
Film · 2006
An Actor Named Brando
Film · 2006
The Godfather and the Mob
Film · 2006
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Film · 2006
Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye
Film · 2006
A Streetcar on Broadway
Film · 2006
A Streetcar in Hollywood
Film · 2006
Desire and Censorship
Film · 2006
North and the Music of the South
Film · 2006
Lost in "The Thinking"
Film · 2005
Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
Film · 2004
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
Film · 2004
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Film · 2003
Celebrities Uncensored
Series · 2003
Naqoyqatsi
Film · 2002
The Score
Film · 2001
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
Film · 2001
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Film · 2001
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
Film · 2001
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
Film · 2001
A Huey P. Newton Story
Film · 2001
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Film · 1999
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Film · 1999
Free Money
Film · 1998
The Brave
Film · 1997
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Film · 1996
All Power to the People!
Film · 1996
E! True Hollywood Story
Series · 1996
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Film · 1995
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
Film · 1995
Don Juan DeMarco
Film · 1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Film · 1994
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Film · 1994
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Film · 1992
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Film · 1992
Movie Tough Guys
Film · 1991
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Film · 1991
The Freshman
Film · 1990
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Film · 1990
A Dry White Season
Film · 1989
Black Leather Jacket
Film · 1989
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Film · 1989
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Film · 1988
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Film · 1988
Hello Actors Studio
Film · 1988
All-Time Movie Greats
Film · 1988
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
Film · 1987
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Film · 1982
The Formula
Film · 1980
Apocalypse Now
Film · 1979
Roots: The Next Generations
Series · 1979
Superman
Film · 1978
Raoni
Film · 1978
The Hollywood Greats
Series · 1977
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
Series · 1977
The Missouri Breaks
Film · 1976
The English Programme
Series · 1976
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Film · 1974
Last Tango in Paris
Film · 1972
The Nightcomers
Film · 1972
The Godfather
Film · 1972
Midi trente
Series · 1972
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
Film · 1971
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Film · 1970
Burn!
Film · 1969
The Night of the Following Day
Film · 1969
The Movie Orgy
Film · 1968
Candy
Film · 1968
The Dick Cavett Show
Series · 1968
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Film · 1967
A Countess from Hong Kong
Film · 1967
The Chase
Film · 1966
The Appaloosa
Film · 1966
Meet Marlon Brando
Film · 1966
Morituri
Film · 1965
Bedtime Story
Film · 1964
The Ugly American
Film · 1963
Mutiny on the Bounty
Film · 1962
One-Eyed Jacks
Film · 1961
The Mike Douglas Show
Series · 1961
The Fugitive Kind
Film · 1960
The David Susskind Show
Series · 1959
The Young Lions
Film · 1958
Sayonara
Film · 1957
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Film · 1957
Operation Teahouse
Film · 1956
Cinépanorama
Series · 1956
Guys and Dolls
Film · 1955
MGM Parade
Series · 1955
On the Waterfront
Film · 1954
Désirée
Film · 1954
The Wild One
Film · 1953
Julius Caesar
Film · 1953
The Oscars
Series · 1953
Viva Zapata!
Film · 1952
A Streetcar Named Desire
Film · 1951
The Men
Film · 1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
Series · 1948
Horrifying Hollywood Murders
Film