marlon brando

     

Marlon Brano, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an Academy Award-winning American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential actors of all time. As a young sex symbol, he is best known for his roles as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, both directed by Elia Kazan in the early 1950s. In middle age, his well-known roles include his Academy-Award winning performance as Vito Corleone in The Godfather and Colonel Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, the latter two directed by Francis Ford Coppola in the 1970s.

Trivia about marlon brando

  • Stefan Kanfer's 2008 biography of this star is titled "Somebody", a nod to one of his most famous lines
  • He was nominated for Best Actor 5 times in the 1950s, the most for any man in one decade
  • Fletcher Christian,Colonel Kurtz,Vito Corleone
  • 41 years after "On The Waterfront", he played Johnny Depp's therapist in 1995's "Don Juan DeMarco"
  • He appeared in the Henry James-inspired film "The Nightcomers" the same year he played "The Godfather"
  • Bernardo Bertolucci directed the controversial film "Last Tango In Paris", starring this American
  • Replacing Kubrick as the director of 1961's "One-Eyed Jacks" was an offer this actor could not refuse
  • This actor is in costume from his film "The Wild One"
  • His 1st stage hit was "I Remember Mama" but he's better remembered for shouting "Stella!"
  • Presenter John Ritter accepted this actor's Emmy in 1979; guess Sacheen was busy that night
  • A script of "The Godfather" with notes by this man pulled in more than $300,000 at a 2005 auction
  • Terry Malloy
  • This late, great actor "had a heap of fun cranking out" "Fan-Tan" "while throwing back a few hundred martinis"
  • A 2-time Oscar winner, he was a roommate of funnyman Wally Cox during his theatrical training in NYC

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