Considered by his peers to be the greatest actor of all time, Marlon Brando was born April 3, 1924, in Omaha, Neb. He helped popularize the practice of method acting and revolutionized the stage and screen with a gripping portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), for which he earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination.Brando continued his streak of memorable film roles with Julius Caesar, The Wild One, On the Waterfront (which produced his first Best Actor Oscar) and Guys and Dolls. His iconic performances continued through the 1970s with The Godfather (which garnered another Best Actor Oscar win), Last Tango in Paris and Apocalypse Now.
Later in his career, Brando displayed signs of his former greatness, playing off his Godfather image in The Freshman and taking on a romantic lead in Don Juan DeMarco. He died of pulmonary fibrosis on July 1, 2004.
The GodfatherWhen organized-crime family patriarch Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge in this Oscar-winning epic. Read More
A Streetcar Named DesireAfter losing the family plantation to creditors, aging Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) travels to New Orleans seeking solace in her sister, Stella (Kim Hunter). Instead, she goes toe-to-toe with Stella's brute of a husband, Stanley (Marlon Brando). Leigh, Hunter and Karl Malden all took... Read More
On the WaterfrontWinner of eight Oscars, director Elia Kazan's classic morality tale stars Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, a has-been boxer who experiences a crisis of conscience while working for mobbed-up union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb). Terry turns a blind eye when Friendly's thugs kill a fellow... Read More
Last Tango in ParisIn this art-house classic, Hollywood heavyweight Marlon Brando delivers a tour de force performance as an American expatriate living in Paris who's still spinning from his estranged wife's sudden suicide. While searching for an apartment, the grief-stricken widower encounters an equally despondent... Read More
Don Juan DeMarcoMarlon Brando stars as a psychiatrist assigned to diagnose a mysterious man (Johnny Depp) who's convinced that he's legendary lover and swashbuckler Don Juan De Marco. Yet delving into Don Juan's past revitalizes the doctor's own relationship with his wife (Faye Dunaway). Look for a café scene... Read More
Brando: The Documentary (2007) | NR | |
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Broadway: The Golden Age (2004) | NR | |
Naqoyqatsi (2002) | PG | |
The Score (2001) | R | |
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001) | R | |
Hollywood Screen Tests (2000) | NR | |
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Free Money (1998) | R | |
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Don Juan DeMarco (1994) | PG-13 | |
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Hearts of Darkness (1991) | R | |
The Freshman (1990) | PG | |
A Dry White Season (1989) | R | |
The Formula (1980) | R | |
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Roots: The Next Generations (1979) | NR | |
Superman: The Movie (1978) | PG | |
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The Missouri Breaks (1976) | PG | |
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The Nightcomers (1972) | R | |
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Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) | NR | |
A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) | G | |
The Appaloosa (1966) | NR | |
The Chase (1966) | UR | |
Morituri (1965) | NR | |
The Ugly American (1963) | UR | |
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) | NR | |
One Eyed Jacks (1961) | UR | |
The Fugitive Kind (1960) | NR | |
The Young Lions (1958) | NR | |
Sayonara (1957) | NR | |
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Guys and Dolls (1955) | NR | |
On the Waterfront (1954) | NR | |
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The Wild One (1953) | NR | |
Best of Person to Person (1953) | NR | |
Viva Zapata! (1952) | NR | |
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