Marlon Brando

ActorCrewDirector Apr 3 (died age 80) Omaha, Nebraska, USA 1948–2025 (77 year career)

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Biography

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 be…

Known For

Film

The Godfather

Don Vito Corleone

Film

Apocalypse Now

Colonel Walter Kurtz

Film

Superman

Jor-El

Film

In the Name of the Father

Thanks

Film

On the Waterfront

Terry Malloy

Film

A Streetcar Named Desire

Stanley Kowalski

Film

The Score

Max

Film

Last Tango in Paris

Paul

Filmography

Acting (129)

Movies (110)

Chaos: The Manson Murders

2025

as Self - Activist (archive footage)

6.2

Marlon Brando's Tahitian Mirage

2025

as Self (archive) - subject

6.0

Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master

2024

as Self

8.1

Marlon Brando in Paradise

2024

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

5.0

Lynch/Oz

2023

as Self (archive footage)

6.9

Flashing Images of Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando

2023

as Stanley Kowalski/Self

The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972

2022

as Himself

kid 90

2021

as Self (archive footage)

7.1

Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius

2021

as Himself (archive footage)

7.2

Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend

2021

as Self (archive footage)

5.0

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

2021

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

2019

as (archive footage)

5.7

Sacheen: Breaking the Silence

2019

as Self (archive footage)

Sophia Loren, a special destiny

2019

as Self (archive footage)

6.9

Hollywood: No Sex, Please!

2018

5.5

Making Montgomery Clift

2018

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

The Madding Crowd

2017

as Self (archive footage)

Tab Hunter Confidential

2015

as Self (archive footage)

7.3

Listen to Me Marlon

2015

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

7.5

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

2014

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

2014

as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)

7.3

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

2012

as (archive footage)

7.5

Hollywood Invasion

2011

as Self (archive footage)

Always Brando

2011

Ballybrando

2009

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

Hollywood sul Tevere

2009

The Last Days of Marlon Brando

2008

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Brando

2007

as Self (archive footage)

6.8

Brando: An Icon Is Born

2007

as Himself (archive footage)

7.0

Superman Returns

2006

as Jor-El

5.8

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

2006

as Jor-El

7.4

Albert Maysles: The Poetic Eye

2006

as Self (archival)

An Actor Named Brando

2006

as Self (archive footage)

The Godfather and the Mob

2006

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

1955, Seven Days of Fall

2005

as (archive footage)

Lost in "The Thinking"

2005

as Jor-El (archive footage)

Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild

2004

as Self(archive footage) (uncredited)

2.0

Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris

2004

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

2003

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Naqoyqatsi

2002

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.1

The Score

2001

as Max

6.7

Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration

2001

as Self

8.0

A Huey P. Newton Story

2001

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.1

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

2001

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

2001

as Self

6.8

Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

2001

as Self

7.8

Come vorresti che fosse il futuro?

2000

as Self

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

1999

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity

1999

as Self

5.9

Free Money

1998

as Warden Sven 'The Swede' Sorenson

5.4

The Brave

1997

as McCarthy

6.0

The Island of Dr. Moreau

1996

as Dr. Moreau

4.9

All Power to the People!

1996

as Self (archive footage)

5.8

Don Juan DeMarco

1994

as Dr. Jack Mickler

6.7

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

1994

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

1994

as Stanley Kowalski / Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (archive footage)

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

1992

as Don Vito Corleone

8.9

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

1992

as Tomas de Torquemada

4.7

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

1991

as Self

7.9

Movie Tough Guys

1991

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

The Freshman

1990

as Carmine Sabatini, aka Jimmy The Toucan

6.3

Anthony Quinn: An Original

1990

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Black Leather Jacket

1989

as Johnny Strabler (segment "The Wild One") (archive footage)

A Dry White Season

1989

as Ian McKenzie

6.6

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989

as Self (voice)

Hello Actors Studio

1988

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

1988

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.9

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

1988

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star

1987

as Self (archive footage)

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

1982

as Self

6.4

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

as Don Vito Corleone

The Formula

as Adam Steiffel

Apocalypse Now

as Colonel Walter Kurtz

Superman

as Jor-El

Raoni

as Narrator

The Missouri Breaks

as Robert E. Lee Clayton

6.5

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

1974

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Godfather

as Don Vito Corleone

Last Tango in Paris

as Paul

The Nightcomers

as Peter Quint

The Godfather: Behind the Scenes

1971

as Self

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

1970

as Self (archive footage)

7.1

Burn!

1969

as Sir William Walker

6.7

The Night of the Following Day

as Chauffeur

Candy

as Grindl

The Movie Orgy

as Self (archive footage)

6.3

A Countess from Hong Kong

1967

as Ogden Mears

6.0

Reflections in a Golden Eye

1967

as Maj. Weldon Penderton

The Chase

as Sheriff Calder

The Appaloosa

as Matt

Meet Marlon Brando

as Self

Morituri

as Robert Crain

Bedtime Story

as Freddy Benson

The Ugly American

as Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite

6.6

Mutiny on the Bounty

1962

as First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian

One-Eyed Jacks

as Rio

The Fugitive Kind

as Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier

6.8

The Young Lions

1958

as Lt. Christian Diestl

6.8

Sayonara

1957

as Major Lloyd Gruver

6.7

The Teahouse of the August Moon

1957

as Sakini

6.2

Operation Teahouse

1956

as Self

Guys and Dolls

as Sky Masterson

On the Waterfront

as Terry Malloy

Désirée

as Napoleon Bonaparte

Julius Caesar

as Mark Antony

The Wild One

as Johnny Strabler

Viva Zapata!

as Emiliano Zapata

A Streetcar Named Desire

as Stanley Kowalski

The Men

as Ken

Superman Redeemed

as Jor-El (Voice Only)

Television (19)

Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae

2024

as Self (archive footage)

8.7

The Sixties

2014

as Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

7.5

Brando: The Documentary

2007

as Self

4.5

Final Days of an Icon

2007

Celebrities Uncensored

2003

as Self

4.0

E! True Hollywood Story

1996

8.1

Roots: The Next Generations

1979

as George Lincoln Rockwell

7.5

Roots: The Next Generations

1979

as George Lincoln Rockwell

7.5

Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

as Don Vito Corleone

The Hollywood Greats

The English Programme

1976

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Midi trente

as Self

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

as Self

5.4

The David Susskind Show

as Self

Cinépanorama

as Self

MGM Parade

The Oscars

as Self

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus!

2010

Thanks

2.8

In the Name of the Father

Thanks

One-Eyed Jacks

Director