Marlon Brando filmography
This is a complete filmography of Marlon Brando, who is considered one of the greatest actors of all time.
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 | |
Stage
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | I Remember Mama | Nels | Broadway debut |
| 1946 | Truckline Cafe | Sage McRae | |
| A Flag is Born | David | ||
| Candida | Eugene Marchbanks | ||
| Antigone | Messenger | ||
| 1947 | 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[1][2][3][4][5] |
| 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 |
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 | Brando accepted the part, but he walked off production of the film after clashing with French director 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 | Brando backed out at the last minute. |
| 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,[6][7] and munificenter pay.[8][9] "I’ll be damned if I'll spend two years of my life on some fucking camel," he said.[6] |
| 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 | 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 | Little Big Man | Old Lodge Skins | Chief Dan George | Arthur Penn | |
| 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 | Deliverance | Lewis Medlock | Burt Reynolds | John Boorman | |
| 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. |
| 1972 | Fat City | Billy Tully | Stacy Keach | John Huston | Huston initially wanted Brando to star. When Brando informed Huston repeatedly that he needed some more time to think about it, Huston finally came to the conclusion that the star wasn't really interested and looked out for another actor until he finally cast the then relatively unknown Stacy Keach. |
| 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. | |
| 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 | 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 | Dances with Wolves | Major Fambrough | Maury Chaykin | Kevin Costner | |
| 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.[10] |
References and notes
- 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.
- 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.
- "Brando's Last Role: An Old Lady". CBS News. July 14, 2004. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
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