* Actor: Marlon Brando

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

* Most Ludicrous Racial Impersonation: Marlon Brando as a native of Okinawa in The Teahouse of the August Moon

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.

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 ).

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

Marlon Brando was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Marlon Brando, Sr., a pesticide and chemical feed manufacturer, and his wife, Dorothy Julia ( née Pennebaker ).

His paternal grandmother, Marie Holloway, abandoned her family when Marlon Brando, Sr., was five years old.

Marlon Brando, Sr., was a talented amateur photographer.

Falk was proud to tell people that Marlon Brando turned down an offer of $ 10, 000 per week on Broadway, in favor of working on Falk's play in Boston.

Marlon Brando with Eva Marie Saint in the trailer for On the Waterfront ( 1954 )

Marlon Brando as Jor-El in Superman ( film ) | Superman ( 1978 )

* William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, and the films made from these two plays ( played by Marlon Brando and Robert Speaight, respectively ).

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

He was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), in which he played Marlon Brando's character's brother.

The character Maynard G. Krebs, played on TV by Bob Denver in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis ( 1959 – 63 ), solidified the stereotype of the indolent non-conformist beatnik, which contrasted with the aggressively rebellious Beat-related images presented by popular film actors of the early and mid-1950s, notably Marlon Brando and James Dean.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

Marlon Brando played Emiliano Zapata in the award-winning movie based on his life, Viva Zapata!

Marlon King, the footballer, owned a house in Dulwich when he played for Watford.

Marlon Brando, who played Corleone, apparently used tapes of Costello from the Kefauver hearings as the basis for the character's accent.

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.

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.

* Sparky – " Survival " by Bob Marley was originally played just before Sparky Anderson's show ; it was replaced, and Venus's outro was changed from " Yes, Brother Marley, we are the survivors " to " Yes, that was Brother Marlon and the Surf Riders ".

In a clinical trial with pediatric diabetes patients at Stanford University Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente, children who played the company's diabetes game, Packy and Marlon, experienced a 77 % reduction in urgent care visits over six months, compared to children in the control group who were given a standard video game to play.

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.

Other films during this period include Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess with Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter ( 1953 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), where he played a priest who influenced Terry Malloy ( Marlon Brando ) to testify against mobster-union boss Johnny Friendly ( Lee J. Cobb ).

She played Blanche ( on the road and on Broadway ) opposite at least four different Stanley Kowalskis, including Anthony Quinn and Marlon Brando.

Johnson played in supporting roles in Shane ( 1953 ) starring Alan Ladd, and One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) starring Marlon Brando.

Marlon Brando as Jor-El, with Kal-El played by Lee Quigley.

Marlon Brando played Jor-El in the 1978 film Superman, which Alexander Salkind, his son Ilya Salkind, and their business partner Pierre Spengler produced and which Richard Donner directed.

Michael is the youngest son of Don Vito Corleone ( played by Marlon Brando in The Godfather and Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II ).

* Vito Corleone — Father ; played by Marlon Brando in The Godfather, and by Robert De Niro in flashback scenes in Part II.

In a controversial scene in the movie Last Tango in Paris, the character Paul, played by Marlon Brando, uses butter during anal sex with the character Jeanne played by Maria Schneider.

In that film, co-starring with Marlon Brando, he played Joe Kelly, an American airman stationed in Kobe, Japan during the Korean War, who falls in love with Katsumi, a Japanese woman ( played by Miyoshi Umeki ), but is barred from marrying her by military rules intended to reassure the local populace that the U. S. presence is temporary.