He also had ambitions to work in film, like Elvis Presley and Eddie Cochran, and registered for acting classes with Lee Strasburg's Actors ' Studio, where the likes of Marlon Brando and James Dean had trained.

Coppola chose Brando over Ernest Borgnine on the basis of Brando's screen test, which also won over the Paramount leadership.

Brando was also nominated for the Oscar for playing Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata!

Brando was also an activist, supporting many issues, notably the African-American Civil Rights Movement and various American Indian Movements.

In 1953, Brando also starred in The Wild One riding his own Triumph Thunderbird 6T motorcycle, which caused consternation to Triumph's importers, as the subject matter was rowdy motorcycle gangs taking over a small town.

Brando also filmed scenes for the movie's sequel, Superman II, but after producers refused to pay him the same percentage he received for the first movie, he denied them permission to use the footage.

Brando also adopted Teriipia's daughters, Maimiti Brando ( born 1977 ) and Raiatua Brando ( born 1982 ).

Brando also adopted Petra Brando-Corval ( born 1972 ), the daughter of his assistant Caroline Barrett and novelist James Clavell.

His numerous grandchildren also include Michael Brando ( born 1988 ), son of Christian Brando, Prudence Brando and Shane Brando, children of Miko C. Brando, the three children of Teihotu Brando and the children of Michael Gilman, among others.

Brando also, along with Paul Newman, participated in the freedom rides.

" Brando was also a major donor to the Irgun, a Zionist political-paramilitary group.

Brando was also considered a sex symbol, one of the earliest in the film industry to achieve widespread attention due to his enigmatic and sexy persona and the reports of his dalliances and relationships with various major Hollywood celebrities.

He also wrote a screenplay from the novel The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones, a draft that evolved into the 1961 Marlon Brando film One-Eyed Jacks.

( 1952 ) which also starred Marlon Brando playing the role of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata.

He played a drunken sailor in Kazan's " Truckline Cafe ," which also included a young Marlon Brando.

However, his first major stage success was his role as an awkward suitor of Jessica Tandy in " A Streetcar Named Desire ," which also helped make Brando a star on stage.

Marlon Brando was also offered the part, and Anthony Perkins and Montgomery Clift were briefly considered, before O ' Toole was cast.

During the 1950s, she participated in several Hollywood productions such as Arrowhead ( 1953, with Charlton Heston ), Broken Lance ( 1954, with Spencer Tracy for which she received an Academy Award nomination ), Trapeze ( 1955, with Burt Lancaster ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1959, directed by Marlon Brando ), Barabbas, Stay Away, Joe ( 1968, opposite Elvis Presley ), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ), and others.

Patrick Spurgeon has played with bands Pancho San, Somehow at Sea, Antenna, Stranded at the Drive In, Ramona the Pest, Brando, Steve Kowalski, Lessick, and has also released solo work as The Phantom Drummer.

Brando failed to capitalize on the momentum of his revitalized career, taking a long hiatus before appearing in The Missouri Breaks ( 1976 ), a box office bomb.

His sister Jocelyn Brando was the first to pursue an acting career, going to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Art.

Some later performances, such as The Island of Dr. Moreau ( 1996 ), earned Brando some of the most uncomplimentary reviews of his career.

At age 20, Fonda started his acting career at the Omaha Community Playhouse, when his mother's friend Dodie Brando ( mother of Marlon Brando ) recommended that he try out for a juvenile part in You and I, in which he was cast as Ricky.

Throughout his illustrious career, Richard Garrick performed along with some of the brightest actors and actresses in stage and film history, including James Arness, Ed Begley, Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, James Dean, Julie Harris, Brian Keith, Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, Victor Mature, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Patricia Neal, Donald O ' Connor, Maureen O ' Sullivan, Anthony Quinn, Ronald Reagan, Ginger Rogers, Jean Simmons, Richard Todd, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, John Wayne, Dennis Weaver and Richard Widmark.

After the war ended in 1945, he resumed his acting career, playing yet another small supporting role in the Maxwell Anderson play Truckline Cafe, with a then-unknown Marlon Brando.

Likewise, for the Latin America version the main character was called Brando Drummond and the carrier " Gran Dragon del Espacio ") who was drafted for the job because his latent psychic powers made him the only one capable of doing so, all other similarly empowered candidates having been assassinated by alien agents with he himself having been injured in an attack that ended his sports career.

The acclaimed actor Marlon Brando, who was cast along with Manners in Maxwell Anderson's play Truckline Cafe ( 1946 ), said of his colleague, " I owe him my entire career.

Guitarist and vocalist Artur Rojek started the band in 1992 as " The Freshmen ", taking the initial name from the 1990 film The Freshman, starring Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick — which indicates a fascination with cinema that would become a characteristic feature throughout the band's career.

His film career began with minor roles in films dating back to 1945, including They Were Expendable ( with John Wayne and Robert Montgomery, but he quickly rose to young leading man status opposite such stars as Wallace Beery in The Mighty McGurk, Doris Day and James Cagney in Love Me or Leave Me, Lana Turner and Spencer Tracy in Cass Timberlane, Clark Gable and Jane Russell in The Tall Men, and Marlon Brando, Merle Oberon, Jean Simmons in Désirée, and Joanne Woodward and Sheree North in No Down Payment.

The Score is a 2001 crime thriller directed by Frank Oz and starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Angela Bassett and Marlon Brando in his final film role.

The 2001 movie, The Score, starring Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando has a Diana Krall recording, " I'll Make It Up As I Go ".

( 1955 ), the Olivier Richard III ( 1955 ), the travelogue Cinerama Holiday ( 1955 ), Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), the Audrey Hepburn-Henry Fonda War and Peace ( 1956 ), the all-star Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), the Technicolor Ten Commandments ( 1956 ), the Cinerama documentary Seven Wonders of the World ( 1956 ), Giant ( 1956 ), The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), Raintree County ( 1957 ), the Cinerama Search for Paradise ( 1957 ), the Cinemiracle documentary Windjammer ( 1958 ), South Pacific ( 1958 ), the Cinerama travelogue South Seas Adventure ( 1958 ), The Big Country ( 1958 ), the Sidney Poitier-Dorothy Dandridge Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ), Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) with Charlton Heston, Disney's Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ) ( an animated feature only seventy-five minutes long with no intermission ), John Wayne's The Alamo ( 1960 ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), Exodus ( 1960 ), Can-Can ( 1960 ), Scent of Mystery ( 1961 ), El Cid ( 1961 ), King of Kings ( 1961 ), The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), ( shown only occasionally in roadshow format despite its length of more than two-and-a-half hours ), Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), the Marlon Brando Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( 1962 ), How the West Was Won ( 1962 ), The Longest Day ( 1962 ), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), The Cardinal ( 1963 ), Cleopatra ( 1963 ), the Richard Burton Hamlet ( 1964 ), My Fair Lady ( 1964 ), The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ), The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), the Olivier Othello ( 1965 ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), The Great Race ( 1965 ), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ), The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), Khartoum ( 1966 ), Cinerama's Russian Adventure ( 1966 ), Hawaii ( 1966 ), The Blue Max ( 1966 ), Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Half a Sixpence ( 1967 ), Camelot ( 1967 ), The Happiest Millionaire ( 1967 ), Ice Station Zebra ( 1968 ), The Lion in Winter ( 1968 ), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ), Oliver!

Brando directed and starred in the cult western film One-Eyed Jacks that was released in 1961, after which he delivered a series of box office failures beginning with the non-success of the 1962 film adaptation of Mutiny on the Bounty.

Later that same year, Brando starred in Lee Falk's production of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man in Boston.

In the 1960s, Brando starred in films such as One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ), a western that was the only film he ever directed ; Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Chase ( 1966 ), and Reflections in a Golden Eye ( 1967 ), portraying a repressed gay army officer.

Brando starred as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now.

In 1952, he starred in the Red Scare film Invasion U. S. A. and in 1954 in Luis Buñuel's Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor ( Marlon Brando won for On the Waterfront instead ).

Four years later, she would appear in another story of war veterans, Fred Zinnemann's The Men ( 1950 ), which starred Marlon Brando in his film début.

Magnani worked with Tennessee Williams again in his 1959 film, The Fugitive Kind ( originally titled, Orpheus Descending ) directed by Sidney Lumet, where she played Lady Torrance and starred with Marlon Brando.

When Jagger and Bowie asked Launer to write a screenplay for them, Launer suggested they do a remake of the movie Bedtime Story, which originally starred David Niven and Marlon Brando.

She starred opposite such actors as Yul Brynner, Marcello Mastroianni, Suzy Delair, Gary Cooper and Marlon Brando.

It starred newcomer Ewa Aulin in the title role and like Casino Royale it featured a host of stars in cameo roles, including Richard Burton, Marlon Brando, John Astin, Ringo Starr, Walter Matthau, and Anita Pallenberg.

The motion picture starred Glenn Ford and Marlon Brando.

In 1946, he starred in A Flag Is Born, opposite Quentin Reynolds and Marlon Brando.

Ballycotton was the scene of a major movie called ' Divine Rapture ' in summer 1995 which starred Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp and Debra Winger.

Founded in 1924, the Playhouse's first president was Alan McDonald, architect of the Joslyn Art Museum, and its first play, directed by Greg Foley in April 1925, was The Enchanted Cottage, which starred Dodie Brando, mother of Marlon Brando.