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.

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.

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 also participated in the singer's two-day solo career 30th-anniversary celebration concerts in 2001, and starred in his 13-minute-long music video, " You Rock My World ," in the same year.

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

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.

The book appears in the film Apocalypse Now, among those kept by the character, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando, along with The Golden Bough.

Francis Ford Coppola ’ s Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) went so far as to not feature the title at all, except briefly as graffiti in Colonel Kurtz ’ ( Brando ) compound.

His commanding officer, Colonel Wainwright Purdy III ( Paul Ford ), assigns him a wily local, Sakini ( Marlon Brando ), to act as interpreter.

* Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, the main antagonist of the film Apocalypse Now, played by Marlon Brando, which is based on the Conrad story, but in a Vietnam War setting

The term was used in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now, in which Martin Sheen's character, Captain Willard, is ordered by Jerry, a man in civilian attire ( presumably CIA, played by Jerry Ziesmer ) to " terminate the command " of the allegedly insane Colonel Kurtz ( played by Marlon Brando ) with " extreme prejudice.

" Similarly, Louie Kemp, in his article for Jewish Journal, wrote: " You might remember him as Don Vito Corleone, Stanley Kowalski or the eerie Col. Walter E. Kurtz in " Apocalypse Now ," but I remember Marlon Brando as a mensch and a personal friend of the Jewish people when they needed it most.

At the end of the 1940s, he took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator alongside Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis, Walter Matthau, Bea Arthur and Sidney Poitier, while performing with the American Negro Theatre.

Scandalized, her family sends her to private school, where she embarks on a psychedelic journey during which she meets a number of strange people, including a sex starved military general ( Walter Matthau ), a doctor who performs public operations ( James Coburn ), a hunchback ( Charles Aznavour ) and a fake Indian guru ( Marlon Brando ).

She is remembered for playing the title character in the cult film Candy where she appeared alongside such stars as John Huston, Ringo Starr, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, Richard Burton and Marlon Brando.

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O ' Toole's major break came when he was chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), after Marlon Brando proved unavailable and Albert Finney turned down the role.

She has made few films since, the best-known being Don Siegel's The Black Windmill ( 1974 ), Nijinsky ( 1980 ), Priest of Love ( 1981 ), Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 ), Federico Fellini's E la Nave Va ( And the Ship Sails On 1983 ), A Dry White Season ( 1989 ) with Marlon Brando and Nuns on the Run ( 1990 ; a rare comedic role ).

In a May 24, 1976 Time magazine interview it was revealed that Brando " changed the entire flavor of his character — a bounty hunter called Robert E. Lee Clayton — by inventing a deadly hand weapon resembling both a harpoon and a mace that he uses to kill.

Marlon Brando ... Robert E. Lee Clayton

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.

Set on an oceanliner, it was to star Marlon Brando as an American ambassador, and Sophia Loren as a beautiful stowaway found in his cabin.

Carroll, in an autobiography, claimed to be the daughter of Marlon Brando, alleging that she had DNA tests done to prove it.

Love's biological grandmother, Paula Fox, had an affair with Brando in the 1940s.

In the 1950s, however, the arrival of stage actors like Marlon Brando, trained in more naturalistic techniques, slowly changed drama to a more realistic tenor.

* Guys and Dolls ( 1955 ) — Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, and Stubby Kaye.

Later, he attended the Actors Studio from its inception ; there, he would study acting with founding member Robert Lewis, alongside, among others, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Herbert Berghof, and Sidney Lumet, not to mention his soon-to-be wife, Anne Jackson.

It won three Academy Awards, including his second for Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) ( with Puzo ), Best Picture and Best Actor ( for Brando ) and a nomination for Best Director and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director.

There was disagreement between Paramount and Coppola on the issue of casting ; Coppola stuck to his plan of casting Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone, though Paramount wanted either Ernest Borgnine or Danny Thomas.

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

Brando later won an Academy Award for his portrayal, which he refused to accept.

A biopic based on the life of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce and market the Tucker ' 48, Coppola had originally conceived the project as a musical with Marlon Brando after the release of The Godfather Part II.

Marlon Brando played Kurtz, and it remains one of his most famous roles.

Cunard officials, who were responsible for the security at the dock, said they had never seen anything like it, although they had experienced past visits by Marlon Brando and Robert Redford.

Spacey is well known in Hollywood for his impressions as when he appeared on Inside the Actors Studio he imitated, at host James Lipton's request: James Stewart, Johnny Carson, Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon.

* 1958 – Christian Brando, American actor ( d. 2008 )

Marlon Brando, Jr. ( April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004 ) was an American screen and stage actor.

Considered to be one of the most important actors in American cinema, Brando was one of only three professional actors, along with Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe, named by Time magazine as one of its 100 Persons of the Century in 1999.

Brando had a significant impact on film acting.

" Brando was ranked by the American Film Institute as the fourth greatest screen legend among male movie stars.

An enduring cultural icon, Brando became a box office star during the 1950s, during which time he racked up five Oscar nominations as Best Actor, along with three consecutive wins of the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Brando made the Top Ten Money Making Stars, as ranked by Quigley Publications ' annual survey of movie exhibitors, three times in the decade, coming in at number 10 in 1954, number 6 in 1955, and number 4 in 1958.

The 1960s proved to be a fallow decade for Brando, and after 10 years in which he did not appear in a commercially successful movie, he won his second Academy Award for playing Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather ( 1972 ), a role critics consider among his greatest.