He initially gained popularity for recreating the role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a Tennessee Williams play that had established him as a Broadway star during its 1947-49 stage run ; and for his Academy Award-winning performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), as well as for his iconic portrayal of the rebel motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One ( 1953 ), which is considered to be one of the most famous images in pop culture.

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.

Tazio Giorgio Nuvolari (; 16 November 1892 – 11 August 1953 ) was an Italian motorcycle and racecar driver, known as Il Mantovano Volante ( The Flying Mantuan ) or Nivola.

Two members of the Traber family traversed the same route in 1953 on a tightrope on a motorcycle.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club formed in 1998, taking its name from Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang in the 1953 film The Wild One.

In April 1953, the first motorcycle races took place at Imola, and the first car race took place in June 1954.

In 1953 The Wild One, starring Marlon Brando, was the first film about a motorcycle gang.

He had a small role as a member of Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang in the 1953 film, The Wild One.

From 1953 to 1968, two Australian Grand Prix, several Tasman Cup races and touring car and motorcycle championship were organized on the Longford Circuit.

* Terry Vance ( born 1953 ), Hall of Fame motorcycle racer and co-founder of aftermarket parts business Vance & Hines

Pedro was national motorcycle champion in 1953 and 1954.

* Leslie Graham ( 1911 – 1953 ), world champion motorcycle racer

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 ).

Eventually, in 1953, she took control of a criminal gang in Tangier from Henri Louche and expanded it to international status as " The Network ".

Raymond Lee Washington ( August 14, 1953 – August 9, 1979 ) was the original founder of the South Central Los Angeles street gang the Crips.

* Raymond Washington ( 1953 – 1979 ), founder of the notorious street gang the Crips

He portrayed a shipping clerk turned gang member in Joseph Strick's 1953 film, The Big Break, a crime drama.

These events launched his North American career, which flourished until it came to a sudden halt in 1953 ; while walking through New York's Central Park, Lewenthal was attacked by a gang of hoodlums and suffered broken bones in his hands and arms.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

The Ashes featured in the film The Final Test, released in 1953, based on a television play by Terence Rattigan.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

* 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.

The first incarnation of the film was a 1953 script by Alex Gordon titled The Atomic Monster, but a lack of financing prevented any production.

Doris Day and Howard Keel, Calamity Jane ( film ) | Calamity Jane ( 1953 )

Daniel Robert " Danny " Elfman ( born May 29, 1953 ) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme.

In 1953 he was cast as Angelo Maggio in the film From Here to Eternity, but was abruptly replaced by Frank Sinatra before filming began.

The first North American high film festival was the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, also known as The Chris Awards, held in 1953.

Gate of Hell, a 1953 film by Teinosuke Kinugasa, was the first movie that filmed using Eastmancolor film, Gate of Hell was both Daiei's first color film and the first Japanese color movie to be released outside of Japan, receiving an Oscar in 1954 for Best Costume Design by Sanzo Wada and an Honorary Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The Rank Organisation also produced some other notable comedy successes, such as Genevieve in 1953 ( see 1953 in film ).

" We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941 – 1953 ( A Panorama of American Film Noir ), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject.

She does not appear in the best-known film she directed, The Hitch-Hiker ( 1953 ), developed by her company, The Filmakers, with support and distribution by RKO.

* 1953 – Tony Adams, Irish film producer ( d. 2005 )

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon ( 1954 ), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland.

Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film called Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia.

Glen or Glenda is a 1953 exploitation film written, directed by, and starring Ed Wood, and featuring Bela Lugosi and Wood's then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller.

* The Wild One ( 1953 )

" Time also liked Holden's performance, describing it as his best since Stalag 17 ( a 1953 film that earned Holden an Oscar ), said Robert Ryan gave " the screen performance of his career " and concluded that " The Wild Bunch contains faults and mistakes " ( such as flashbacks " introduced with surprising clumsiness "), but " its accomplishments are more than sufficient to confirm that Peckinpah, along with Stanley Kubrick and Arthur Penn, belongs with the best of the newer generation of American film makers.

On loan at Warner Brothers, he played Wild Bill Hickok in Calamity Jane ( 1953 ), a highly popular Oscar-winning musical starring Doris Day in one of her most famous screen roles.

' JDs ' followed the standard black leather and denim jeans look set by Marlon Brando in the 1953 film The Wild One.

In 1953, Törni was granted a residence permit through an Act of Congress that was shepherded by the law firm of " Wild Bill " Donovan, the former head of the OSS, America's wartime covert military organization.

He made uncredited appearances in numerous films, including Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Wild One ( 1953 ), and The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

The 1953 film The Wild One starring Marlon Brando wearing jeans, a T-shirt, a leather jacket, and muir cap, played on pop-cultural fascination with the Hollister " riot " and promoted an image of masculine independence that resonated with some gay men who are dissatisfied with a culture that stereotyped gay men as effeminate.

Kramer continued producing movies at Columbia, including Death of a Salesman ( 1951 ), The Sniper ( 1952 ), The Member of the Wedding ( 1952 ), The Juggler ( 1953 ), The Wild One ( 1953 ) and The 5, 000 Fingers of Dr. T ( 1953 ).

* Yachts winning Line Honours to be later disqualified: Wild Wave ( 1953 ), Nirvana ( 1983 ) and Rothmans ( 1990 )

This development, in conjunction with the emergence of the teddy boy and the release of the US films The Wild One ( 1953 ) and Rebel Without a Cause ( 1955 ), saw adolescents in North America and Western Europe collectively express a form of rebellion against the values of their parents and authority in general.

In 1953, the company mostly gave up on comics, selling its most popular titles — the romance comics Cinderella Love and Romantic Love, the Western title Kid Cowboy, and the jungle adventure title Wild Boy of the Congo — to St. John Publications.

In the 1950s, however, jazz began to be used for all or parts of film soundtracks, and Manne pioneered in these efforts, beginning with The Wild One ( 1953 ).

The Triumph brand received considerable publicity in the United States when Marlon Brando rode a 1950 Thunderbird 6T in the 1953 motion picture, The Wild One.

* Blowing Wild ( 1953 )

The Wild One is a 1953 American outlaw biker film directed by László Benedek and produced by Stanley Kramer.