Marlon Brando's biography

Marlon Brando Jr. is 80 years old film actor born at Omaha. He was born on Thursday 3rd of April 1924. He is often nicknamed as Bud, Mr. Mumbles (Given to him by Frank Sinatra), Brando. According to year of birth 1924 Marlon belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 3rd of April means Marlon is Aries. Aries is the most active sign of Zodiac, one born with this sign is a very quick learner, aggressive and passionate.He was married 3 times.

He is white american. Marlon is citizen of United States of America. Marlon is deist. His primary profession is to be film actor. You can know Marlon also as film director, stage actor. He is recently known as television actor. Marlon received Academy Award for Best Actor On the Waterfront in 1954

Marlon Brando's dad

Marlon Brando's father's name is Marlon Brando Sr.. He is known as film producer. His father was born on Friday 11th of January 1895 in Omaha. His father died on Saturday 17th of July 1965 in Los Angeles. Marlon Brando Sr. was 41 years old, when this happened.

Marlon Brando's mom

Marlon Brando's mother's name is Dodie Brando.

Marlon Brando's family

Marlon Brando's ex spouses

Anna Kashfi

Marlon Brando and Anna Kashfi have been together since 1957 for 2 years. She is known as actor. His ex spouse was born on Sunday 30th of September 1934 in Darjeeling. His ex spouse died on Friday 21st of August 2015 in Cowlitz County. Anna Kashfi was 91 years old, when this happened.

Movita

Marlon Brando and Movita have been together since 1960 for 2 years. She is known as actor. Marlon´s ex spouse was born on Wednesday 12th of April 1916. His ex spouse died on Thursday 12th of February 2015. Movita was 91 years old, when this happened.

Tarita Teriipaia

Marlon Brando and Tarita Teriipaia have been together since 1962 for 10 years.

He has 3 sons.

Marlon Brando's son: Christian Brando

Marlon Brando's son's name is Christian Brando. He is known as actor. Marlon´s son was born on Sunday 11th of May 1958 in Los Angeles. His son died on Saturday 26th of January 2008 in Los Angeles. Christian Brando was 84 years old, when this happened.

Marlon Brando's son: Teihotu Brando

Marlon Brando's son's name is Teihotu Brando. Marlon´s son was born on Thursday 30th of May 1963.

Marlon Brando's son: Stephen Blackehart

Marlon Brando's son's name is Stephen Blackehart. He is known as actor. Marlon´s son was born on Friday 1st of December 1967 in New York City.

Marlon Brando's schools

We found 5 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Actors Studio, Shattuck-Saint Mary's, New School, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Libertyville High School.

Detailed informations about Marlon´s schools

He studied high school - Libertyville High School, Libertyville, Illinois, USA (expelled), Shattuck Military Academy, Faribault, Minnesota, USA (dropped out).

Marlon studied university - American Theatre Wing Professional School at the Dramatic Workshop of the New School, Stella Adler Studio of Acting Alumni.

Marlon Brando's career

Marlon´s main focus is to be film actor. He is famous thanks to his roles as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, his Academy Award-winning performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront and his Academy Award-winning performance as Vito Corleone in The Godfather. You could see him also in On the Waterfront, The Godfather, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Roots: The Next Generations and many more.

Is Marlon Brando gay ?

Marlon is known to be bisexual.

How did Marlon Brando die

He died on on Thursday 1st of July 2004 when he was 80 years old at Los Angeles. Marlon Brandos death was caused by respiratory failure from pulmonary fibrosis with congestive heart failure. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Marlon Brando's Awards

Marlon received award for Academy Award for Best Actor for work On the Waterfront in 1954
He received award for Academy Award for Best Actor for work The Godfather in 1972
Marlon received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for work The Godfather in 1972
He received award for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor for work The Island of Dr. Moreau in 1996
Marlon received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for work Roots: The Next Generations in 1979

Marlon Brando's Rankings

Ranked #13 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Ranked #12 in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 100 Entertainers" of all time (2000).
His performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954) is ranked #2 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
His performance as Paul in Last Tango in Paris (1972) is ranked #27 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
His performance as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) is ranked #85 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
His performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954) is ranked #69 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Marlon Brando's Nominations

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for work A Dry White Season in 1989
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
Marlon was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
Marlon was nominated for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor for work The Formula in 1981

What Marlon Brando has done for a first time

Was Oliver Stone's first choice for the role of Richard Boyle in Salvador (1986). However, Brando had become notoriously reclusive by the time the project got underway and turned down the role.
Brando's first Oscar nomination for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) marked his first of four consecutive nominations, a feat he shares with Jennifer Jones (1943-1946), Thelma Ritter (1950-1953), Elizabeth Taylor (1957-1960) and Al Pacino (1972-1975).
Finished first in MSN's "The Big 50: Cinema's Greatest Legends" poll in March 2009 (Robert De Niro finished runner-up with Al Pacino in third place).
He won his first Oscar for On the Waterfront (1954) on March 20, 1955, four days before he turned age 31, making him the youngest Best Actor winner. He held the record for 23 years.
When Brando studied acting under Stella Adler, she was the first person who showed faith in his potential.

Marlon Brando's Donations

Brando donated his $25,000 salary for his one day of work on Roots: The Next Generations (1979) to the American Indian Movement.

Marlon Brando's quotes

The more sensitive you are, the more likely you are to be brutalised, develop scabs and never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything because you always feel too much.
The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
Would people applaud me if I were a good plumber?
I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.
I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armour because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.
If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful, it's worse than having a skin disease.
I don't want to spread the peanut butter of my personality on the mouldy bread of the commercial press.
The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid.
With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
[on Frank Sinatra] He's the kind of guy that when he dies, he's going up to heaven and give God a bad time for making him bald.
Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting is a sign of maturity.
[on the impact of The Godfather (1972)] I'd gotten to know quite a few mafiosi, and all of them told me they loved the picture because I had played the Godfather with dignity. Even today I can't pay a check in Little Italy.
Acting is an empty and useless profession.
[on his characterization of Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954)] [The role] was actor-proof, a scene that demonstrated how audiences often do much of the acting themselves in an effectively told story.
If the vacuum formed by Dr. [Martin Luther King's] death isn't filled with concern and understanding and a measure of love, then I think we all are really going to be lost here in this country.
It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek... Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.
I'm one of those people who believes that if I'm very good in this life I'll go to France when I die.
Even today, I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but it is troubling.
If Wally [Wally Cox] had been a woman, I would have married him and we would have lived happily ever after.
America has been good to me, but that wasn't a gift.
I have eyes like those of a dead pig.
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
This is a false world. It's been a struggle to try to preserve my sanity and sense of reality taken away by success. I have to fight hard to preserve that sense of reality so as to bring up my children.
I always enjoyed watching John Wayne, but it never occurred to me until I spoke with Indians how corrosive and damaging and destructive his movies were - most Hollywood movies were.
I know I'm not an easy person to get along with, I'm no walk in the park.
[on Burt Reynolds] I disagree with the thought process of people like him, who is a totally narcissistic person who epitomizes everything wrong with being a celebrity in Hollywood.
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Humphrey Bogart played himself in every movie. Clark Gable always played Clark Gable.
Regrets belong to the past.
[on Hollywood] A cultural boneyard.
[on Dustin Hoffman] I believe that he has talent. He ought to get away from this rather nervous character that he's played since Midnight Cowboy (1969). Then we'd really be able to see that he's a complete actor.
The good directors that I've worked with will say I'm a good guy. The other fellows will say I'm a bad guy.
At Paramount, I sat at lunch with John Wayne. I couldn't even talk.
Most New York and Beverly Hills psychoanalysts are a little crazy themselves, as well as highly motivated to separate patients from their money while making their emotional problems worse.
[on Lee Strasberg] An ambitious, selfish man who exploited the people who attended the Actors Studio, and he tried to project himself as an acting oracle and guru. Some people worshipped him, but I never knew why.
I bumped into Marilyn Monroe at a party. While other people drank and danced, she sat by herself in a corner almost unnoticed, playing the piano.
I come from a long line of Irish drunks.
When I saw The Godfather (1972) the first time, it made me sick; all I could see were my mistakes and I hated it. But years later, when I saw it on television from a different perspective, I decided it was a pretty good film.
[on Al Pacino] I didn't say much to Pacino when we were making The Godfather (1972), but I not only consider him one of the best actors in America, but in the world. I never meant anything more in my life.
On The Godfather (1972), I had signs and cue cards everywhere -- on my shirt sleeves, on a watermelon and glued to the scenery. Not memorizing lines increased the illusion of reality and spontaneity.
Everyone on a movie deserves an award - not just one person.
With so much prejudice, racial discrimination, injustice, hatred, poverty, starvation and suffering in the world, making movies seemed increasingly silly and irrelevant.
Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.
I hated authority and did everything I could to defeat it by resisting it, subverting it, tricking it and outmaneuvering it. I would do anything to avoid being treated like a cipher.
If I hadn't been an actor, I've often thought I'd have become a con man and wound up in jail.
An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
I'm just another son-of-a-bitch sitting in a motor home on a film set and they come looking for Zeus.
[on working with David Niven on Bedtime Story (1964)] Working with David was the only time I ever looked forward to filming. I just couldn't wait to wake up each morning and go to work so he could make me laugh.
The Godfather (1972) said that a man with a briefcase can steal more money than a man with a pistol.
I liked High Anxiety (1977). Mel Brooks makes me laugh. They had a Laurel and Hardy festival on television; boy, I laughed at that. It went on all night long; I was up half the night laughing.
[on Charles Chaplin] A remarkable talent but a monster of a man.
[on acting] I don't put it down. But I resent people putting it up.
Mao Tse-tung was the last giant.
I don't think any movie is a work of art.
A prostitute can give you all kinds of wonderful excitement and inspiration and make you think that nirvana has arrived on the two-o'clock plane, and it ain't necessarily so.
Acting is just hustling.
George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.
What people are willing to do in front of a public is puzzling. I don't understand why they do it. I guess it makes them feel a little less lonely. I always found it distasteful and not something I cared to do.
I just don't believe in washing my dirty underwear for all to see, and I'm not interested in the confessions of movie stars.
[on his refusal to talk about Marilyn Monroe's death] It's disemboweling a ghost.
Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know anything about it. They don't want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby.
I'm not going to lay myself at the feet of the American public and invite them into my soul. My soul is a private place. And I have some resentment of the fact that I live in a system where you have to do that.
You can say something in a certain spirit, with a smile, but when it appears in print, there's no smile.
[on Charles Chaplin] Chaplin you got to go with. Chaplin is a man whose talents is such that you have to gamble. First off, comedy is his backyard. He's a genius, a cinematic genius. A comedic talent without peer.
[To his cast on the set of One-Eyed Jacks (1961)] I don't know how this film is going to end. But I want a scene where someone gets shot in the back. Who wants to be the shooter? Who wants to be the shootee?
[To his cast and crew on the set of One-Eyed Jacks (1961)] I've got to have clouds, not a clear sky, before we can go on shooting.
[on Hollywood] A small-minded little town in the middle of nowhere.
I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed.
[on Burt Reynolds] He's the epitome of everything that's disgusting about the thespian. He worships at the temple of his own narcissism.
If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
I'm not a film fanatic. If I never saw another movie in my life, it wouldn't bother me. Acting is what I do to make money, but it's certainly not my life-style. Compared to world affairs, to peace conferences, making a movie is absolutely nothing!
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
[on Leonardo DiCaprio] He looks like a girl.
I am myself, and if I have to hit my head against a brick wall to remain true to myself, I will do it.
[To Bernardo Bertolucci about his role in Last Tango in Paris (1972)] Never again will I make a film like this one. For the first time, I have felt a violation of my innermost self. It should be the last time.
I too have had homosexual experiences, and I am not ashamed. I'd never paid much attention to what people think about me. Deep down, I feel a bit ambiguous.
I think it's part of an actor's trade to be able to play in a light vein and to be an entertainer as well as a serious storyteller.
We like to see ourselves as perhaps John Wayne sees us. That we are a country that stands for freedom, for rightness, for justice. It just simply doesn't apply.

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