Marlon Brando, Jr.
(Aprile 3, 1924 ? Julie 1, 2004) wis an American actor an activist. He is hailed for bringin a grippin realism tae film actin an is eften citit as ane o the greatest an maist influential actors o aw time. Brando is widely kent for his
Academy Awaird
-winnin performances as Terry Malloy in
On the Waterfront
(1954) an Don
Vito Corleone
in
The Godfather
(1972). Brando wis an
activist
for mony causes, notably the
Ceevil Richts Muivement
an various
Native American
movements.
He ineetially gained acclaim an an Academy Awaird nomination for reprisin the role o
Stanley Kowalski
in the 1951 film adaptation o
Tennessee Williams
' play
A Streetcar Named Desire
, a role that he oreeginatit successfully on
Broadway
.
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He received forder praise for his performance as Terry Malloy in
On the Waterfront
, an his portrayal o the rebellious motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in
The Wild One
pruived tae be a lastin eemage in popular cultur.
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Brando received Academy Awaird nominations for playin
Emiliano Zapata
in
Viva Zapata!
;
Mark Antony
in
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
's 1953
film adaptation
o
Shakespeare
's
Julius Caesar
; an Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in
Sayonara
(1957), an adaption o
James Michener
's 1954 novelle. Brando wis includit in a leet o
Top Ten Money Making Stars
three times in the 1950s, comin in at nummer 10 in 1954, number 6 in 1955, an number 4 in 1958.
The 1960s pruived tae be a fauch decade for Brando. He directit an starned in the
cult
western film
One-Eyed Jacks
, a creetical an commercial flop, efter that he delivered a series o box-office failyies, beginnin wi the
1962 film adaptation
o the novelle
Mutiny on the Bounty
. Efter 10 years, in that he did nae appear in a successfu film, he wan his seicont Academy Awaird for playin Vito Corleone in
Francis Ford Coppola
's
The Godfather
, a role creetics conseeder amang his greatest.
The Godfather
wis then ane o the maist commercially successfu films o aw time. Wi that an his Oscar-nominatit performance in
Last Tango in Paris
, Brando re-established himsel in the ranks o tap box-office stars, placin saxt an tent in the Money Making Stars poll in 1972 an 1973, respectively. Brando teuk a fower-year hiatus afore appearin in
The Missouri Breaks
(1976). Efter this, he wis content wi bein a heichly paid
chairacter actor
in
cameo roles
, sic as in
Superman
(1978) an
The Formula
(1980), afore takkin a nine-year break frae motion pictures. Accordin tae the
Guinness Book of World Records
, Brando wis paid a record $3.7 million ($16 million in inflation-adjuistit dollars) an 11.75% o the gross profits for 13 days' wark on
Superman
. He finished out the 1970s wi his controversial performance as
Colonel Kurtz
in anither Coppola film,
Apocalypse Now
, a box-office hit for that he wis heichly paid an that helped finance his career layaff in the 1980s.
Brando wis ranked bi the
American Film Institute
as the
fowert-greatest movie starn
amang male movie starns that's screen debuts occurred in or afore 1950. He wis ane o anly fower professional actors, alang wi
Charlie Chaplin
,
Ronald Reagan
an
Marilyn Monroe
, named in 1999 bi
Time
magazine as ane o its
100 Most Important People of the Century
.
[4]
He dee'd o
respiratory failyie
on Julie 1, 2004, at age 80.