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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".
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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May 9th, 2025 | Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage | Self (archive) - subject | 6 | |
March 6th, 2025 | Chaos: The Manson Murders | Self - Activist (archive footage) | 6.1 | |
April 1st, 2024 | Marlon Brando in Paradise | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 5 | |
April 10th, 2023 | Flashing Images of Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando | Stanley Kowalski/Self | TBD | |
December 28th, 2022 | The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972 | Himself | TBD | |
October 10th, 2021 | Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius | Himself (archive footage) | 7.2 | |
June 18th, 2021 | Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It | Self (archive footage) | 7.5 | |
March 12th, 2021 | kid 90 | Self (archive footage) | 7.1 | |
January 2nd, 2021 | Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend | Self (archive footage) | 5 | |
March 6th, 2020 | Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth | Self(archive footage) | 7.5 | |
December 24th, 2019 | Sophia Loren, a special destiny | Self (archive footage) | 6.9 | |
October 13th, 2019 | Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood | (archive footage) | 5.7 | |
April 5th, 2019 | Sacheen: Breaking the Silence | Self (archive footage) | TBD | |
September 23rd, 2018 | Making Montgomery Clift | Self (archive footage) | 7.8 | |
March 1st, 2018 | Hollywood: No Sex, Please! | TBD | 5.5 | |
February 1st, 2017 | The Madding Crowd | Self (archive footage) | TBD | |
January 17th, 2016 | The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959 | Don Vito Corleone | 8.8 | |
July 29th, 2015 | Listen to Me Marlon | Self (voice) (archive footage) | 7.5 | |
March 15th, 2015 | Tab Hunter Confidential | Self (archive footage) | 7.3 | |
September 20th, 2014 | Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire | Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage) | 7.2 | |
August 24th, 2014 | Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau | Self (archive footage) | 6.7 | |
February 4th, 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 7.5 | |
September 8th, 2011 | Always Brando | TBD | TBD | |
September 1st, 2011 | Hollywood Invasion | Self (archive footage) | 6 | |
December 12th, 2009 | Ballybrando | Self (archive footage) | 10 | |
September 7th, 2009 | Hollywood sul Tevere | TBD | TBD | |
March 1st, 2008 | The Last Days of Marlon Brando | Self (archive footage) | 7 | |
May 22nd, 2007 | Brando: An Icon Is Born | Himself (archive footage) | 7 | |
May 1st, 2007 | Brando | Self (archive footage) | 6.8 | |
November 2nd, 2006 | Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut | Jor-El | 7.4 | |
August 6th, 2006 | Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye | Self (archival) | TBD | |
June 28th, 2006 | Superman Returns | Jor-El | 5.8 | |
May 2nd, 2006 | An Actor Named Brando | Self (archive footage) | TBD | |
April 25th, 2006 | The Godfather and the Mob | Self (archive footage) | 7 | |
October 29th, 2005 | Lost in "The Thinking" | Jor-El (archive footage) | 7 | |
October 4th, 2005 | 1955, Seven Days of Fall | (archive footage) | TBD | |
December 3rd, 2004 | Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris | Self (archive footage) | 8.5 | |
August 29th, 2004 | Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild | Self(archive footage) (uncredited) | 2 | |
April 3rd, 2003 | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self (archive footage) | 7 | |
September 2nd, 2002 | Naqoyqatsi | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 6.1 | |
November 13th, 2001 | Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration | Self | 8 | |
October 7th, 2001 | Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies | Self (archive footage) | 8.5 | |
July 13th, 2001 | The Score | Max | 6.7 | |
June 18th, 2001 | A Huey P. Newton Story | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 5.4 | |
May 1st, 2001 | Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman' | Self | 7.6 | |
May 1st, 2001 | Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend | Self | 7.2 | |
January 1st, 1999 | Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 9 | |
January 1st, 1999 | Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity | Self | 5.9 | |
December 3rd, 1998 | Free Money | Warden Sven 'The Swede' Sorenson | 5.4 | |
July 30th, 1997 | The Brave | McCarthy | 6 | |
August 23rd, 1996 | The Island of Dr. Moreau | Dr. Moreau | 4.9 | |
June 1st, 1996 | All Power to the People! | Self (archive footage) | 6.3 | |
December 19th, 1994 | Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage | Stanley Kowalski / Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (archive footage) | 9 | |
October 12th, 1994 | Don Juan DeMarco | Dr. Jack Mickler | 6.8 | |
August 11th, 1994 | Marlon Brando: The Wild One | Self (archive footage) | 6.5 | |
October 21st, 1992 | The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 | Don Vito Corleone | 8.9 | |
August 20th, 1992 | Christopher Columbus: The Discovery | Tomas de Torquemada | 4.8 | |
November 27th, 1991 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Self | 7.9 | |
January 1st, 1991 | Movie Tough Guys | Self (archive footage) | 10 | |
September 10th, 1990 | Anthony Quinn: An Original | Self (archive footage) | 6.8 | |
July 20th, 1990 | The Freshman | Carmine Sabatini, aka Jimmy The Toucan | 6.3 | |
September 20th, 1989 | A Dry White Season | Ian McKenzie | 6.7 | |
June 26th, 1989 | Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre | Self (voice) | TBD | |
January 1st, 1989 | Black Leather Jacket | Johnny Strabler (segment "The Wild One") (archive footage) | 9 | |
November 9th, 1988 | Hello Actors Studio | Self (archive footage) | 6.7 | |
October 24th, 1988 | John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 6 | |
May 16th, 1988 | Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC | Self (archive footage) | 6 | |
October 7th, 1987 | Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star | Self (archive footage) | 10 | |
January 24th, 1982 | The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' | Self | 6.6 | |
December 19th, 1980 | The Formula | Adam Steiffel | 5.6 | |
May 19th, 1979 | Apocalypse Now | Colonel Walter Kurtz | 8.3 | |
December 14th, 1978 | Superman | Jor-El | 7.2 | |
February 15th, 1978 | Raoni | Self - Narrator (voice) | 6 | |
May 19th, 1976 | The Missouri Breaks | Robert E. Lee Clayton | 6.5 | |
April 11th, 1974 | Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 7.2 | |
December 15th, 1972 | Last Tango in Paris | Paul | 6.9 | |
March 14th, 1972 | The Godfather | Don Vito Corleone | 8.7 | |
February 15th, 1972 | The Nightcomers | Peter Quint | 5.6 | |
January 1st, 1971 | The Godfather: Behind the Scenes | Self | TBD | |
March 24th, 1970 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | 7.3 | |
December 21st, 1969 | Burn! | Sir William Walker | 6.8 | |
January 10th, 1969 | The Night of the Following Day | Chauffeur | 6 | |
December 17th, 1968 | Candy | Grindl | 5.2 | |
January 1st, 1968 | The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage) | 6.6 | |
October 13th, 1967 | Reflections in a Golden Eye | Maj. Weldon Penderton | 6.5 | |
January 5th, 1967 | A Countess from Hong Kong | Ogden Mears | 6 | |
September 16th, 1966 | Meet Marlon Brando | Self | 6.9 | |
September 15th, 1966 | The Appaloosa | Matt | 6.4 | |
February 18th, 1966 | The Chase | Sheriff Calder | 7.1 | |
August 24th, 1965 | Morituri | Robert Crain | 6.8 | |
June 10th, 1964 | Bedtime Story | Freddy Benson | 6.3 | |
April 2nd, 1963 | The Ugly American | Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite | 6.6 | |
November 8th, 1962 | Mutiny on the Bounty | First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian | 7.1 | |
March 30th, 1961 | One-Eyed Jacks | Rio | 6.7 | |
April 14th, 1960 | The Fugitive Kind | Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier | 6.9 | |
April 2nd, 1958 | The Young Lions | Lt. Christian Diestl | 6.8 | |
December 25th, 1957 | Sayonara | Major Lloyd Gruver | 6.7 | |
January 14th, 1957 | The Teahouse of the August Moon | Sakini | 6.2 | |
November 29th, 1956 | Operation Teahouse | Self | 8 | |
December 23rd, 1955 | Guys and Dolls | Sky Masterson | 6.5 | |
November 16th, 1954 | Désirée | Napoleon Bonaparte | 6.6 | |
June 22nd, 1954 | On the Waterfront | Terry Malloy | 7.9 | |
December 30th, 1953 | The Wild One | Johnny Strabler | 6.6 | |
June 4th, 1953 | Julius Caesar | Mark Antony | 7.1 | |
February 7th, 1952 | Viva Zapata! | Emiliano Zapata | 6.9 | |
September 18th, 1951 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Stanley Kowalski | 7.6 | |
August 25th, 1950 | The Men | Ken | 7 | |
TBD | Horrifying Hollywood Murders | Self (archive footage) | TBD |