Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando (1924), US film actor. His career began in the theatre, where he was an outstanding success as the violent Stanley Kowalsky in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire (filmed in 1951). The leading practitioner of ‘Method’ acting, he has been most successful in portraying inarticulate but very masculine heroes. His best-known films include On the Waterfront and The Wild One (both 1954), and The God-father and Last Tango in Paris (both 1972). Since the later 1970s Brando has appeared in few major roles; his more recent films include A Dry White Season (1989) and Don Juan de Marco (1995). At the same time his private life has been overshadowed by tragedy: in 1989
“As an actor, he is a genius, and even when he’s dull, he’s still much better than most actors at the top of their form. But he has preserved the mentality of an adolescent.
Burt Reynolds on Marion Brando”
Brando’s son Christian was arrested for the murder of the boyfriend of his half-sister, who later committed suicide. He published his autobiography in 1994.
