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| Born | Marlon Brando Jr. April 3, 1924 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Died | July 1, 2004 (aged 80) Los Angeles, California |
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| Years active | 1944–2004 |
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| Children | 11, including Christian and Cheyenne |
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| Awards | Full list |
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Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and activist. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time,[1] he received numerous accolades throughout his career, which spanned six decades, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Brando is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting and method acting to mainstream audiences.
Brando fell under the influence of Stella Adler and Stanislavski's system in the 1940s. He began his career on stage, adeptly reading his characters and consistently anticipating where scenes flowed. He made his Broadway debut in the play I Remember Mama (1944) and won Theater World Awards for his roles in the plays Candida and Truckline Cafe both in 1946. He returned to Broadway playing Stanley Kowalski in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). He reprised the role in the 1951 film adaptation directed by Elia Kazan.
He transitioned to film making his debut playing a wounded G.I. in The Men (1950) and later won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for his roles as a dockworker in the crime drama film On the Waterfront (1954) and Vito Corleone in the gangster epic The Godfather (1972). He was Oscar-nominated for playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (1952), Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (1953), an air force pilot in Sayonara (1957), an American expatriate in Last Tango in Paris (1973), and a lawyer in A Dry White Season (1989).
Brando was known as for his iconic roles including the rebellious motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One (1953) became an emblem of the era's generational gap.[2] He also played Sky Masterson in the musical film Guys and Dolls (1955), Fletcher Christian in the action film Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), Jor-El in the superhero film Superman (1978), as Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam war drama Apocalypse Now (1979). He made his directorial film debut and starred in the western drama One-Eyed Jacks (1961) which was a commercial flop.
On television, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his role in the ABC miniseries Roots: The Next Generations (1979). Brando took a 9-year acting hiatus and later return to film where his output fluctuated in varying degrees of commercial and critical success. The last two decades of his life were marked with controversy, and his troubled private life received significant attention. He struggled with mood disorders and legal issues. His final films include The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) and The Score (2001).
- ^ "TIME 100 Persons of the Century". Time. June 6, 1999. Archived from the original on May 23, 2016. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
- ^ Jones, Dylan (August 14, 2014). Elvis Has Left the Building: The Day the King Died. The Overlook Press. ISBN 9781468310429. Archived from the original on August 5, 2020. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
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