Marlon Brando filmography
Brando from a trailer for the film Julius Caesar (1953), for which he received his third Oscar nomination.
This is a complete filmography of Marlon Brando, who is considered one of the greatest actors of all time.
Stage
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | I Remember Mama | Nels | Broadway debut Music Box Theatre |
| 1946 | Truckline Cafe | Sage McRae | First collaborations with Elia Kazan and Karl Malden First major appearance on Broadway |
| A Flag is Born | David | ||
| Candida | Eugene Marchbanks | ||
| Antigone | Messenger | National Theatre | |
| 1947 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Stanley Kowalski | Ethel Barrymore Theatre |
| 1953 | Arms and the Man | Sergius | Final play |
Filmography
Documentaries
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Himself | Ely Landau | |
| 1978 | Raoni | Narrator | Jean-Pierre Dutilleux Luiz Carlos Saldanha |
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| 1991 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Himself | Various | |
| 2015 | Listen to Me Marlon | Himself | Stevan Riley |
Posthumous performances
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Superman Returns | Jor-El | Bryan Singer | Made completely from footage from the 1978 Superman film, combined with CGI. |
| 2006 | Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut | Jor-El | Richard Donner | Footage shot during 1977 |
| 2015 | Listen to Me Marlon | Himself | Stevan Riley |
Film projects turned down or incomplete
| Year | Title | Role (If taken) | Actor(s) Take The Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | High Noon | Will Kane | Gary Cooper | Fred Zinnemann | |
| 1954 | The Egyptian | Sinuhe | Edmund Purdom | Michael Curtiz | |
| 1954 | Le rouge et le noir (The Red and the Black) | Julien Sorel | Gérard Philipe | Claude Autant-Lara | Brando accepted the part, but he walked off production of the film after clashing with French director Claude Autant-Lara. |
| 1956 | The Conqueror | Genghis Khan | John Wayne | Dick Powell | Brando backed out at the last minute. |
| 1959 | Ben-Hur | Judah Ben-Hur | Charlton Heston | William Wyler | |
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | T. E. Lawrence | Peter O’Toole | David Lean | Brando said that he didn't want to ride camels in the desert for two years. |
| 1965 | Doctor Zhivago | Victor Ipolitovich Komarovsky | Rod Steiger | David Lean | |
| 1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Either Butch Cassidy or the Sundance Kid | Robert Redford | George Roy Hill | Brando was seriously considered to team with Paul Newman for one of the roles. He declined in order to film Burn!. |
| 1969 | The Arrangement | Eddie Anderson | Kirk Douglas | Elia Kazan | Shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Brando told Kazan he could not star in a run-of-the-mill movie after King's assassination. Instead, he opted for Burn!, which was a pro-revolutionary story about a rebellion of African slaves in the Caribbean. |
| 1970 | Ryan's Daughter | Major Randolph Doryan | Christopher Jones | David Lean | The role was written for Brando. He accepted, but problems with the production of Burn! forced him to drop out. |
| 1972 | Child's Play | Joseph Dobbs | Robert Preston | Sidney Lumet | Brando backed out just before principal photography was to begin when he realized James Mason had the better part. Brando subsequently was sued by producer David Merrick for breach of contract. |
| 1974 | The Great Gatsby | Jay Gatsby | Robert Redford | Jack Clayton | Paramount studio brass wanted him to appear as the titular character, but he wanted $4 million, an unheard-of salary at the time. |
| 1974 | The Godfather Part II | Vito Corleone | Francis Ford Coppola | Brando was scheduled to make a cameo appearance in the film, in the flashback at the end of the film in which Vito Corleone comes back to his home and is greeted with a surprise birthday party. In fact, he was expected the day of shooting but did not show up due to a salary dispute. | |
| 1977 | Equus | Martin Dysart | Richard Burton | Sidney Lumet | |
| 1980 | Superman II | Jor-El | Richard Lester | Marlon Brando finished all his scenes for both two Superman films early into production, successfully sued the Salkinds, producers of the film, for $50 million over grossed profits gained from the first film. In response, the Salkinds cut Brando from the film, replacing his scenes with actress Susannah York. His scenes were restored in the 2006 re-cut of the film, titled Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut. | |
| 1984 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | O'Brien | Richard Burton | Michael Radford | |
| 1986 | Salvador | Richard Boyle | James Woods | Oliver Stone | |
| 1988 | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | Preston Tucker | Jeff Bridges | Francis Ford Coppola | The director wanted Brando to appear as Preston Tucker in his biopic of the maverick automotive executive that Coppola planned to make after completing The Godfather Part II. Brando was not interested. |
| 1988 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Vulcan | Oliver Reed | Terry Gilliam | |
| 1990 | The Field | Bull McCabe | Richard Harris | Jim Sheridan | |
| 1991 | Nostromo (incomplete) | David Lean | Brando was scheduled to appear with co-stars Paul Scofield, Peter O'Toole, Isabella Rossellini, Christopher Lambert, and Dennis Quaid. However, when director David Lean died, the production came to a halt. | ||
| 1995 | Divine Rapture (incomplete) | A Priest | The project included stars like Johnny Depp, Debra Winger, and John Hurt. Production was never completed due to a lack of financing. | ||
| 1998 | American History X | Cameron Alexander | Stacy Keach | Tony Kaye | |
| 1999 | Sleepy Hollow | Headless Horseman | Christopher Walken | Tim Burton | |
| 1999 | Magnolia | Earl Partridge | Jason Robards | Paul Thomas Anderson | |
| 2001 | Scary Movie 2 | Father McFeely | James Woods | Keenen Ivory Wayans | Brando had to withdraw when he was hospitalized with pneumonia in April 2001. |
| 2004 | Man on Fire | Paul Rayburn | Christopher Walken | Tony Scott | Brando was the original choice to play Rayburn, less than a year before he died. |
| N/A | Big Bug Man (incomplete) | Mrs. Sour (voice) | Bob Bendetson Peter Shin |
Brando recorded for the voice of Mrs. Sour a month before his death on July 1, 2004. He thought it would be fun to voice a girl for this project. Since Brando's death, there has been no update on the film's progress.[1] |
Box office ranking
For a number of years exhibitors voted Brando among the most popular stars in the country:
- 1954: 10th (US)
- 1955: 6th (US)
- 1956: 14th (US)
- 1957: 14th (US)
- 1958: 4th (US)
- 1959: 21st (US)
- 1961: 21st (US)
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Actors Studio | Doctor | Episode: "I'm No Hero" |
| 1950 | Come Out Fighting | Jimmy Brand | Unsold pilot[2][3][4][5][6] |
| 1977 | The Godfather Saga | Don Vito Corleone | Miniseries |
| 1979 | Roots: The Next Generations | George Lincoln Rockwell | Episode #1.7 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie |
Music video
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | You Rock My World | The Boss |
References and notes
- ↑ "Brando's Last Role: An Old Lady". CBS News. July 14, 2004. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
- ↑ Brando, Marlon (1984). Songs My Mother Taught Me. New York: Random House. p. 104. ISBN 0-679-41013-9. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
- ↑ Marill, Alvin H. (2009). Sports on Television. Westport, CN: Praeger. p. 12. ISBN 0313351058
- ↑ Heimer, Mel (July 8, 1969). "Boone Takes Glum Look at TV". The Pottsdown Mercury
- ↑ Scott, Vernon (March 18, 1980). "TV Pioneer Mourns Loss of Half-Hour Drama". The Montreal Gazette
- ↑ "Television". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. April 18, 1950.
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