Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Jr. was an American actor and film director with a career spanning 60 years. He won the Oscar for Best Actor twice and is well-regarded for his cultural influence on 20th-century film. He is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting and method acting to mainstream audiences.

About Marlon Brando in brief

Marlon Brando Jr. was an American actor and film director with a career spanning 60 years. He won the Oscar for Best Actor twice and is well-regarded for his cultural influence on 20th-century film. He is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting and method acting to mainstream audiences. Brando was ranked by the American Film Institute as the fourth-greatest movie star among male movie stars whose screen debuts occurred in or before 1950. He was one of only six actors named in 1999 by Time magazine in its list of the 100 Most Important People of the Century. In this list, Time also designated Brando as the \”Actor of the century\”. His ancestry was German, Dutch, English, and Irish. His patrilineal immigrant ancestor, Johann Wilhelm Brandau, arrived in New York in the early 1700s from the Palatinate in Germany. His mother, known as Dodie, was unconventional for her time; she smoked, wore pants, and drove cars. His father eventually joined Alcoholics Anonymous and Brando harbored more enmity for his father than he did for his namesake, stating, ‘I was his father, but nothing I did ever pleased him, or even I did anything he enjoyed telling me right He had a habit of telling me I would never amount to anything. \” Around 1930, Brando’s parents moved to Evanston, Illinois, when his father’s work took him to Chicago, but the next year they moved to Santa Ana, California, where they lived with her mother.

In his autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me, he expressed sadness when writing about his mother: ‘The anguish that Dodie produced was that she preferred getting drunk to caring for us’ He was raised a Christian Scientist and his mother was an alcoholic and often had to be brought home from Chicago bars by her husband. He had two older sisters named Jocelyn Brando and Frances. His mother took the three children with her when she left Evanston for Santa Ana when he was 11 years old, where he lived with his mother until he was 18 years old. In the early 1970s, he was generally content with being a highly paid character actor in supporting roles, such as in Superman, as Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, and in The Formula, before taking a nine-year break from film. After ten years of underachieving, he agreed to do a screen test as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather. He got the part and subsequently won his second Academy Award in a performance critics consider among his greatest. He also received Academy Award nominations for playing Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! ; Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar; and Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara, an adaptation of James Michener’s 1954 novel. The 1960s saw his career take a commercial and critical downturn.

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