Marlon Brando filmography
Brando from a trailer for the film Julius Caesar (1953), for which he received his third Oscar nomination. | ||
| Filmography: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Feature films | 40 | |
| Stage | 7 | |
| Television series | 3 | |
| Video games | 1 | |
| Music videos | 1 | |
This is a complete filmography of Marlon Brando, who is considered one of the greatest actors of all time.
Stage[]
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | Bobino[1] | Giraffe/Guard | |
| I Remember Mama | Nels | Broadway debut | |
| 1946 | Truckline Cafe | Sage McRae | |
| A Flag is Born | David | ||
| Candida | Eugene Marchbanks | ||
| Antigone | Messenger | ||
| 1947 | Eagle Rampant (The Eagle Has Two Heads) [2] | Stanislas | |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Stanley Kowalski | ||
| 1953 | Arms and the Man | Sergius | Final play |
Film[]
Television[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Actors Studio | Doctor | Episode: "I'm No Hero" |
| 1950 | Come Out Fighting | Jimmy Brand | Pilot[3][4][5][6][7] |
| 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 | Artist | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | "You Rock My World" | Michael Jackson | The Boss |
Video game[]
| Year | Title | Voice role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | The Godfather | Don Vito Corleone | Cameo Released posthumously |
Film projects turned down or incomplete[]
| Year | Title | Role (If taken) | Actor(s) Take The Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Sunset Boulevard | Joe Gillis | William Holden | Billy Wilder | He was deemed too much of an unknown. |
| 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 | |
| 1954 | A Star Is Born | Norman Lester | James Mason | George Cukor | |
| 1955 | East of Eden | Cal Trask | James Dean | Elia Kazan | Kazan considered casting Brando as Cal, before deciding he was too old for the role at 30. |
| 1956 | Baby Doll | Archie Lee Meighan | Karl Malden | Elia Kazan | |
| 1956 | The Conqueror | Genghis Khan | John Wayne | Dick Powell | |
| 1956 | Giant | Jett Rink | James Dean | George Stevens | |
| 1957 | A Face in the Crowd | Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes | Andy Griffith | Elia Kazan | |
| 1957 | The Man with the Golden Arm | Frankie Machine | Frank Sinatra | Otto Preminger | |
| 1958 | The Defiant Ones | John "Joker" Jackson | Tony Curtis | Stanley Kramer | |
| 1959 | Ben-Hur | Judah Ben-Hur | Charlton Heston | William Wyler | |
| 1961 | Judgment at Nuremberg | Hans Rolfe | Maximilian Schell | Stanley Kramer | In a rare effort to actually obtain a part, he showed interest in the role, even approaching Kramer about it. |
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | T. E. Lawrence | Peter O'Toole | David Lean | Brando preferred to appear in Mutiny on the Bounty instead due to its pleasanter filming location, Tahiti,[8][9] and munificenter pay.[10][11] "I'll be damned if I'll spend two years of my life on some fucking camel," he said.[8] |
| 1965 | Doctor Zhivago | Victor Ipolitovich Komarovsky | Rod Steiger | David Lean | |
| 1967 | The Graduate | Mr. Robinson | Murray Hamilton | Mike Nichols | |
| 1968 | Planet of the Apes | George Taylor | Charlton Heston | Franklin J. Schaffner | |
| 1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Either Butch Cassidy or the Sundance Kid | Robert Redford | George Roy Hill | |
| 1969 | The Arrangement | Eddie Anderson | Kirk Douglas | Elia Kazan | |
| 1970 | Little Big Man | Old Lodge Skins | Chief Dan George | Arthur Penn | |
| 1970 | Ryan's Daughter | Major Randolph Doryan | Christopher Jones | David Lean | |
| 1971 | Dirty Harry | Harry Callahan | Clint Eastwood | Don Siegel | |
| 1972 | Deliverance | Lewis Medlock | Burt Reynolds | John Boorman | |
| 1972 | Child's Play | Joseph Dobbs | Robert Preston | Sidney Lumet | |
| 1972 | Fat City | Billy Tully | Stacy Keach | John Huston | |
| 1974 | The Great Gatsby | Jay Gatsby | Robert Redford | Jack Clayton | |
| 1974 | The Godfather Part II | Vito Corleone | Francis Ford Coppola | ||
| 1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Randle Patrick "R.P." McMurphy | Jack Nicholson | Miloš Forman | Brando declined the offer to play the role. |
| 1976 | A Star Is Born | John Norman Howard | Kris Kristofferson | ||
| 1976 | Taxi Driver | Travis Bickle | Robert De Niro | Martin Scorsese | |
| 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 | |
| 1987 | Angel Heart | Louis Cyphere | Robert De Niro | Alan Parker | |
| 1987 | The Last Emperor | Reginald Johnston | Peter O'Toole | Bernardo Bertolucci | |
| 1988 | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | Preston Tucker | Jeff Bridges | Francis Ford Coppola | |
| 1988 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Vulcan | Oliver Reed | Terry Gilliam | |
| 1990 | Dances with Wolves | Major Fambrough | Maury Chaykin | Kevin Costner | |
| 1990 | The Field | Bull McCabe | Richard Harris | Jim Sheridan | |
| 1991 | Nostromo (incomplete) | David Lean | |||
| 1995 | Divine Rapture (incomplete) | A Priest | |||
| 1998 | The Big Lebowski | Jeffrey "The Big" Lebowski | David Huddleston | Joel Coen | The Coen Brothers wanted Brando to play the role and even had him in mind while writing the script but Brando couldn't star in the movie due to ill health.[12] |
| 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 | |
| 2004 | Man on Fire | Paul Rayburn | Christopher Walken | Tony Scott | |
| 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.[13] |
References and notes[]
- ^ Mann, William J.. The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando. First edition. New York, NY: Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 2019. Print.
- ^ Brando, Marlon, and Lindsey, Robert. Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me. United Kingdom, Random House, 1994.
- ^ 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, CT: 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.
- ^ a b Maxim Staff (December 11, 2008). "Last Tango on Brando Island". Maxim. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
- ^ Jokinen, Pauli (July 19, 2004). "Marlon Brandon muistokirjoitus". Film-O-Holic.com (in Finnish). Retrieved August 10, 2019.
- ^ Lyttelton, Oliver (May 18, 2012). "5 Things You Might Not Know About David Lean's 'Lawrence Of Arabia'". IndieWire. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
[Sam] Spiegel initially wanted Marlon Brando, but the actor turned it down in favor of 'Mutiny on the Bounty,' which was paying better.
- ^ Alikhan, Anvar (July 19, 2015). "Dilip of Arabia?". The Times of India. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
To play Lawrence, [David] Lean had originally wanted Marlon Brando, but Brando turned him down because the money wasn't good enough.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 12, 2021. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Brando's Last Role: An Old Lady". CBS News. July 14, 2004. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
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