Marlon Brando (1924–2004)

Actor | Soundtrack | Director

Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more ...

Born: April 3, 1924
Died: July 1, 2004 (age 80)

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Filmography

Known For

Apocalypse Now Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (1979)
The Godfather Don Vito Corleone (1972)
Last Tango in Paris Paul (1972)
Known For

On the Waterfront Terry Malloy (1954)
Actor

The Godfather Don Vito Corleone (2006)
Michael Jackson: You Rock My World Boss (2001)
The Score Max (2001)
Free Money The Swede (1998)
The Brave McCarthy (1997)
The Island of Dr. Moreau Dr. Moreau (1996)
Divine Rapture Priest (1995)
Don Juan DeMarco Dr. Jack Mickler (1994)
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery Tomas de Torquemada (1992)
The Freshman Carmine Sabatini (1990)
A Dry White Season McKenzie (1989)
The Formula Adam Steiffel (1980)
Apocalypse Now Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (1979)
Roots: The Next Generations George Lincoln Rockwell (1979)
Superman Jor-El (1978)
The Godfather Saga Don Vito Corleone (1977)
The Missouri Breaks Lee Clayton (1976)
Last Tango in Paris Paul (1972)
The Godfather Don Vito Corleone (1972)
The Nightcomers Peter Quint (1971)
Burn! Sir William Walker (1969)
The Night of the Following Day Chauffeur (1969)
Candy Grindl (1968)
Reflections in a Golden Eye Maj. Weldon Penderton (1967)
A Countess from Hong Kong Ogden (1967)
The Appaloosa Matt (1966)
The Chase Sheriff Calder (1966)
Morituri Robert Crain (1965)
Bedtime Story Freddy Benson (1964)
The Ugly American Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite (1963)
Mutiny on the Bounty 1st Lt. Fletcher Christian (1962)
One-Eyed Jacks Rio (1961)
The Fugitive Kind Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (1960)
The Young Lions Lt. Christian Diestl (1958)
Sayonara Major Lloyd 'Ace' Gruver (1957)
The Teahouse of the August Moon Sakini (1956)
Guys and Dolls Sky Masterson (1955)
Omnibus Stanley Kowalski (1955)
Désirée Napoleon Bonaparte (1954)
On the Waterfront Terry Malloy (1954)
The Wild One Johnny Strabler (1953)
Julius Caesar Mark Antony (1953)
Viva Zapata! Zapata (1952)
A Streetcar Named Desire Stanley Kowalski (1951)
The Men Ken (1950)
Actor

Actor's Studio (1949)
Soundtrack

Listen to Me Marlon (2015)
Barbra: The Concert (1995)
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
The Ugly American (1963)
Soundtrack

Guys and Dolls (1955)
Director

One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Producer

Lying for a Living (2002)
Archive footage

Martin Luther King by Trevor McDonald (2018)
Hollywood, No Sex Please! (2017)
Hell's Club Part 2. Another Night (2017)
I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
Entertainment Tonight (2016)
CBS This Morning (2015)
Tellement Gay! Homosexualité et pop culture (2015)
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015)
Listen to Me Marlon (2015)
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)
2nd Indie Fest of YouTube Videos 2014 (2014)
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire (2014)
The Sixties (2014)
Un jour, une histoire (2014)
And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)
Éternelle Jean Seberg (2014)
The O'Reilly Factor (2013)
That's Life!! Kilorenzos Smith in Talks... (2013)
Hollywood Rebellen (2013)
The March (2013)
Unknown Movies (2013)
America's Book of Secrets (2013)
Cinéphiles de notre temps (2012)
Stars of the Silver Screen (2011)
Marlon Brando tuli Suomeen (2011)
Hollywood Invasion (2011)
Sing Your Song (2011)
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010)
Smash His Camera (2010)
Reel Injun (2009)
Hollywood on the Tiber (2009)
Banda sonora (2009)
Glenn Beck (2009)
The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009)
Tracks (2008)
El espíritu de la democracia (2008)
Truly, Madly, Cheaply!: British B Movies (2008)
5 Second Movies (2008)
Mike Douglas: Moments & Memories (2008)
Blood, Sweat, & Brando (2008)
Paris Hilton Inc.: The Selling of Celebrity (2007)
Legenden (2007)
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Al Pacino (2007)
On the Lot (2007)
Brando (2007)
Larry King Live: The Greatest Interviews (2007)
The Godfather: The Don's Edition (2007)
The Godfather: Blackhand Edition (2007)
Voces (2006)
You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman (2006)
Requiem for Krypton: Making 'Superman Returns' (2006)
Resurrecting Jor-El (2006)
The Rise of Two Legends (2006)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)
20 Most Horrifying Hollywood Murders (2006)
The Godfather: Mob Wars (2006)
E! True Hollywood Story (2005-2006)
The Curse of Superman (2006)
Superman Returns (2006)
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman (2006)
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)
Guys and Dolls: The Goldwyn Touch (2006)
Guys and Dolls: From Stage to Screen (2006)
The Godfather and the Mob (2006)
Hollywood Greats (2006)
Ban the Sadist Videos! Part 2 (2006)
Corazón de... (2006)
The Originals (2005)
Lost in the Thinking (2005)
Bullets Over Hollywood (2005)
VM Show Vol. 2 (2005)
Biography (1995-2005)
La tierra de las 1000 músicas (2005)
Cinema mil (2005)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005)
The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005)
11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2005)
Larry King Live (2004)
The 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2004)
Dateline NBC (2004)
Dies de transició (2004)
Michael Jackson: The One (2004)
James Dean and Marlon Brando (2003)
Michael Jackson: Number Ones (2003)
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003)
American Masters (1989-2003)
Celebrities Uncensored (2003)
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Robert De Niro (2003)
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years (2003)
The 100 Greatest Movie Stars (2003)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
Inside the Actors Studio (1994-2003)
Sendung ohne Namen (2002)
Naqoyqatsi (2002)
Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend (2001)
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration (2001)
Gordon Willis on Cinematography (2001)
Francis Coppola's Notebook (2001)
Private Screenings (2001)
A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman' (2001)
The Magic Behind the Cape (2001)
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (1999)
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999)
ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999)
Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998)
Århundredets vidner (1998)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)
Great Romances of the 20th Century: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (1997)
Showbiz Today (1997)
All Power to the People! (The Black Panther Party and Beyond) (1996)
Empire of the Censors (1995)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)
Imágenes prohibidas (1994)
100 Years at the Movies (1994)
In the Name of the Father (1993)
One on One: Classic Television Interviews (1993)
Edward R. Murrow: The Best of 'Person to Person' (1993)
Fame in the Twentieth Century (1993)
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992)
Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (1991)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
Anthony Quinn: An Original (1990)
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990)
The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (1990)
Hollywood Mavericks (1990)
The Siskel & Ebert 500th Anniversary Special (1989)
Great Performances (1988)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (1988)
Apocalypse Pooh (1987)
The Rock 'n' Roll Years (1985)
The Rebels: Marlon Brando (1981)
Sixty Years of Seduction (1981)
The Mike Douglas Show (1976)
America at the Movies (1976)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1972)
Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963)
Archive footage

MGM Parade (1955)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1955)
Cinematographer

Untitled Famine Relief Fund-Raising Documentary (1967)

Awards

Did You Know

He did not like to sign autographs for collectors. Because of this, his own autograph became so valuable that many checks he wrote went uncashed--his signature on them was worth more than the value of the check itself. Ironically, his secretary ...

Quotes

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

Trademark

Frequently played young, somewhat misunderstood rebels in his youth (A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), The Wild One (1953), On the Waterfront (1954)), and later powerful criminals (The Godfather (1972), The Formula (1980), The Freshman (1990)).