It too was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, but won 8, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, for Marlon Brando.

" I felt I ’ d better go find out where it is ; what it is to be black in this country ; what this rage is all about ," Brando said on the late night ABC-TV talk show Joey Bishop Show.

During the actual scene, she has also said she was crying real tears as she felt humiliated and violated by both Brando and Bertolucci.

At one point, Coppola was told by the then-president of Paramount that " Marlon Brando will never appear in this motion picture ".

The production of the film was plagued by numerous problems, including typhoons, nervous breakdowns, the firing of Harvey Keitel, Martin Sheen's heart attack, extras from the Philippine military leaving in the middle of scenes to go fight rebels, and an unprepared Brando with a bloated appearance ( which Coppola attempted to hide by shooting him in the shadows ).

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.

Marvin had a small but memorable role in The Wild One ( 1953 ) opposite Marlon Brando ( Marvin's gang in the film was called " The Beetles "), followed by Seminole ( 1953 ) and Gun Fury ( 1953 ).

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

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.

Brando worked as a ditch-digger as a summer job arranged by his father.

A 24-year-old Brando as Stanley Kowalski on the set of the stage version of A Streetcar Named Desire ( play ) | A Streetcar Named Desire, photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1948

Brando achieved stardom, however, as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Elia Kazan.

When Brando reported to the induction center, he answered a questionnaire provided to him by saying his race was " human ", his color was " Seasonal-oyster white to beige ", and he told an Army doctor that he was psycho neurotic.

In Songs My Mother Taught Me, Brando claimed he met Marilyn Monroe at a party where she played piano, unnoticed by anybody else there, and they had an affair and maintained an intermittent relationship for many years, receiving a telephone call from her several days before she died.

She was 20 years old, 18 years younger than Brando, who was reportedly delighted by her naiveté.

Brando had a long-term relationship with his housekeeper Maria Christina Ruiz, by whom he had three children: Ninna Priscilla Brando ( born May 13, 1989 ), Myles Jonathan Brando ( born January 16, 1992 ), and Timothy Gahan Brando ( born January 6, 1994 ).

He had four more children by unidentified women: Stephen Blackehart ( born 1967 ), Michael Gilman ( born 1967 ), who was adopted by Brando's longtime friend Sam Gilman, Dylan Brando ( born 1968 ), and Angelique Brando.

Galella had followed Brando, who was accompanied by talk show host Dick Cavett, after a taping of The Dick Cavett Show in New York City.

Brando eventually had a now-closed hotel built on Tetiaroa, which went through many redesigns as a result of changes demanded by Brando over the years.

Bertolucci became infamous in 1972, with the controversial film Last Tango in Paris, with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Massimo Girotti, when a scene featuring the anal rape of character Jeane by character Paul using butter as a lubricant, among other depictions of the young Schneider that were thought to be exploitative, caused serious concern due to its representation of women.

* Last Tango in Paris ( 1972 ), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider

* Last Tango in Paris ( 1972 ), starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.

He appeared with a hero of his, Marlon Brando in the Bertolucci film Last Tango in Paris, although the two never met, since all of Léaud's scenes were shot on Saturdays and Brando refused to work on Saturdays.

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.

Brando excelled at theatre and did well in the school.

Director Francis Ford Coppola convinced Brando to submit to a " make-up " test, in which Brando did his own makeup ( he used cotton balls to simulate the puffed-cheek look ).

Her irreverent and often bawdy sense of humour allowed her to establish a rapport with her co-star Marlon Brando ; but she had difficulty with director Elia Kazan, who did not hold her in high regard as an actress.

When Marlon Brando did a five-minute screen test for the studio in 1947, he was given fragments of one of the 1940s partial scripts.

Brando adopted a nondescript Southern accent for Gruver, despite the objections of director Logan, who did not think a Southern accent was appropriate for a general's son who was educated at West Point.

He famously did not get along at all with Brando during filming.

In his review for the Toronto Star, Peter Goddard wrote, " Hackers joy-rides down the same back streets Marlon Brando did in The Wild One, or Bruce Springsteen does in Born To Run.

Norton later admitted he wasn't very fond of the script and only did the film to work with De Niro and Brando, stating that he would have loved a script that " had three characters reading from the Montreal phone book, if the other two actors were Brando and DeNiro ".

Marlon Brando, Rock Hudson, Geoffrey Horne, and Leslie Nielsen were also offered the role, as were a number of muscular, handsome Italian actors ( many of whom did not speak English ).

Parks did a take-off of his hosting role in The Freshman ( 1990 ), starring Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, and Bruno Kirby.

Quark is even reclining in a chair as did Brando and petting an alien creature ( Presumably a popular pet of Ferenginar, just as cats are on Earth ) the way Don Corleone held his cat.

From 1981 – 86, Brando was WAFB-TV Baton Rouge's assistant sports director and did telecasts of LSU basketball on Tigervision.

In spite of the presence of such big names as Marlon Brando, Ringo Starr, and Richard Burton, the film did poorly in America and failed to make an international star out of Ewa.

He was a close friend of Marlon Brando with the actor naming his son Christian after him as did French director Roger Vadim.

) The Academy Awards ceremony was held in Hollywood, where the actor Marlon Brando, a supporter of AIM, asked an Apache actress, Sacheen Littlefeather, to speak at the Oscars on his behalf.

Mummato rules over Australia and New Zealand, and is known for his silence ( though he does speak on rare occasions ; his voice sounds much like Marlon Brando ).