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Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando
Born 3 April 1924, in Omaha, Nebraska; died 1 July 2004, in Los Angeles, California

Wise words: "I'm one of those people who believes that if I'm very good in this life I'll go to France when I die."



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Marlon Brando - news / articles


  • Brando trustees sue for leather jacket cash - 25 May 2010
    -The trustees of Marlon Brando's estate have filed suit against a clothing company over the unlicensed use of the Brando name in the marketing of a new leather jacket range. - -Brando Enterprises has filed a lawsuit against Joe's Jeans, seeking compensation for damages


  • Coppola blasts Brando's bad reputation - 9 June 2009
    -Late acting legend Marlon Brando was a misunderstood eccentric, according to Francis Ford Coppola, the director who knew him best.- -Coppola cast Brando in two of his most famous roles as mafia boss Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather and Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse No


  • Brando returns to the big screen - 19 May 2004
    Veteran actor Marlon Brando is set to return to the big screen starring as himself in low-budget project "Brando and Brando".-Details of the £3 million movie were revealed during the Cannes film festival this week.-"Brando and Brando" tells the

Marlon Brando - what members say


  • The Wild One
  • The Wild One review by Zamy from LONDON
    Rated - 2.0 stars 19 July 2004
    ... their exploits looks very tame today. The main interest is the performance of Marlon Brando in the title role. He certainly looks good in his leathers: a rather camp gay ...   Read customer review
  • Superman
  • Superman review by from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars Classic, unrivalled superhero epic 22 October 2004
    ...with three distinct segments - the heavenly glow of the Kryptonian scenes (with Marlon Brando as his father), then the wonderful cornfield landscapes of the Smallville growi...   Read customer review
  • On The Waterfront
  • On The Waterfront review by Hurdlemagurdle from Scotland
    Rated - 5.0 stars Mesmerising.... 23 July 2004
    ...performance by Marlon Brando in one of his best films. Although the films looks slightly creaky around the edges you can still see the sheer power of Brando's screen presen...   Read customer review

Marlon Brando - filmography


  • Naqoyqatsi on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Elton John,  Marlon Brando,  Marlon Brando/ Elton John
    Director: Godfrey Reggio
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 671 members
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  • The Score on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Angela Bassett,  Edward Norton,  Marlon Brando
    Director: Frank Oz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Professional thief Nick Wells (Robert De Niro) is considering giving up his life of crime when his old fence Max Baron (Marlon Brando) asks him to help steal a priceless sceptre from the city customs house. Nick agrees, treating it as the 'one last job' which will pay for his retirement, but ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 7,968 members
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  • The Score - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Gary Farmer,  Angela Bassett,  Edward Norton
    Director: Frank Oz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Professional thief Nick Wells (Robert De Niro) is considering giving up his life of crime when his old fence Max Baron (Marlon Brando) asks him to help steal a priceless sceptre from the city customs house. Nick agrees, treating it as the 'one last job' which will pay for his retirement, but ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,878 member
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  • Free Money on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Charlie Sheen,  Martin Sheen,  Mira Sorvino
    Director: Yves Simoneau
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Corrupt North Dakota prison warden The Swede (Marlon Brando) tricks a couple of none-too-bright loafers, Bud (Charlie Sheen) and Larry (Thomas Haden Church), into marrying his daughters and then proceeds to terrorise them with his random outbursts. Eager to get away from their maniacal father-in-..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 124 members
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  • The Brave on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Max Perlich,  Elpidia Carrillo,  Marshall Bell
    Director: Johnny Depp
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Raphael (Johnny Depp, who also wrote and directed the film) and his family live in a small town just above the poverty line. The only way out of the situation seems to be by earning some fast money; which happens when Raphael meets monstrous snuff movie maker, McCarthy (Marlon Brando) and agrees to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 3,408 members
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  • The Island Of Dr Moreau (1996)
    Starring: Mark Dacascos,  Val Kilmer,  Fairuza Balk
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    On a remote tropical island, Dr. Moreau has appointed himself ruler over a menagerie of genetic mutants fashioned in his gene-splicing chamber of horrors. The products of his misguided attempt to create a more pure human species, the man-beasts worship Moreau as their god and father and live by his ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 1,557 member
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  • Don Juan DeMarco on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Rachel Ticotin,  Bob Dishy,  Faye Dunaway
    Director: Jeremy Leven
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Marlon Brando plays a psychiatrist whose last case, that of Don Juan, is his most difficult. Don Juan (Johnny Depp) is the world's greatest lover, having seduced over 1000 women, and his amorous tales totally captivate the analyst, re-awakening passions which he thought had been lost forever.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 5,878 members
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  • The Freshman on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Penelope Ann Miller,  Bruno Kirby,  B.D. Wong
    Director: Andrew Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    In this farcical comedy, Matthew Broderick plays Clark Kellogg, an aspiring director who arrives in New York City to attend film school. However, moments after he arrives in the city, he's robbed by Victor Ray (Bruno Kirby), leaving him no money for the $700 in books required by his instructor, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 855 members
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  • A Dry White Season on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Donald Sutherland,  Janet Suzman,  Zakes Mokae
    Director: Euzhan Palcy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardeners son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realise his society is built on a pillar of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 242 members
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  • The Formula on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Marthe Keller,  George C. Scott,  Marlon Brando
    Director: John G. Avildsen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Political thriller directed by John G. Avildsen, starring George C. Scott and Marlon Brando. Detective Barney Caine (Scott) uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil - and oil companies. When a major ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 103 members
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  • Superman - Blu-ray (1978)
    Starring: Marc McClure,  Terence Stamp,  Trevor Howard
    Director: Richard Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    A baby from the planet Krypton develops superhuman powers under Earth's yellow sun. As an adult (Christopher Reeve) he dons red cape and pants, and flies across the world doing good deeds, whilst also hiding behind the alias of mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent. Fellow journalist Lois Lane (Margot ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,831 member
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  • Superman (1978)
    Starring: Trevor Howar,  Marc McClure,  Terence Stamp
    Director: Richard Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Richard Donner's big-budget blockbuster Superman: The Movie is an immensely entertaining recounting of the origin of the famous comic book character. Opening on Krypton (where Marlon Brando plays Superman's father), the film follows the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) as he's sent to Earth where ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 16,775 members
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  • The Missouri Breaks on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Randy Quaid,  Marlon Brando,  Jack Nicholson
    Director: Arthur Penn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A rancher, a rustler, and a regulator face off in Arthur Penn's eccentric western. As a cover for their horse thievery, a gang of Montana rustlers, led by the laid-back Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson), buys a small farm adjacent to the ranch of their latest target/nemesis, Braxton (John McLiam). When ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 862 members
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  • The Nightcomers (1972)
    Starring: Harry Andrews,  Marlon Brando,  Thora Hird
    Director: Michael Winner
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Bly House, a turn-of-the-century English estate, provides young Miles and Flora with a home after they are orphaned. However, they only find out about the death of their parents through the gardener Peter Quint (Marlon Brando), who becomes a powerful father figure for them both. As the children ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 339 members
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  • The Godfather on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Richard Conte,  James Caan
    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Francis Ford Coppola's epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone's ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 74,364 members
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  • Burn on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Sal Marquez,  Marlon Brando,  Renato Salvatori
    Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    British agent provocateur William Walker foments a slave uprising on a Caribbean island of Quemada in the 1840s and then installs his own leader, an illiterate sugar cane cutter. But, when the puppet leader learns that the new masters are no better than the old, Walker must return to the island to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 368 members
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  • Candy (1968)
    Starring: John Huston,  Walter Matthau,  Ringo Starr
    Director: Christian Marquand,  Richard Marquand
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Psychedelic sex comedy, adapted from the satirical novel by Terry Southern. Candy (Ewa Aulin) is a young woman dangerously attractive to older men, none of whom can resit making a fool of themselves trying to seduce her. On a journey of self-discovery she becomes embroiled with Richard Burton's ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 326 members
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  • A Countess From Hong Kong on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Sydney Chaplin,  Sophia Loren,  Tippi Hedren
    Director: Charlie Chaplin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Romantic comedy and the last film directed by Charles Chaplin. An American diplomat (Marlon Brando) is heading for Hawaii from Hong Kong in order to attempt to patch things up with his estranged wife Martha (Tippi Hedren). His trip soon becomes eventful as he finds a Russian countess, a stowaway, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 215 members
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  • The Appaloosa on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Anjanette Comer,  Anjanette Comer
    Director: Sidney J. Furie
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Marlon Brando plays Matt Fletcher a bone-weary saddle trap, tired of life on the range who wants to settle down and breed horses. His dream is shattered when the prize Appaloosa stallion is stolen by a Mexican bandit.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 124 members
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  • The Chase on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Miriam Hopkins,  Jane Fonda,  Martha Hyer
    Director: Arthur Penn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama. Appointed by local kingpin Val Rogers (E. G. Marshall), benevolent Sheriff Calder (Marlon Brando) manages to keep the peace in Tarl, but the situation starts to fester one Saturday ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 635 members
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  • Morituri on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Trevor Howard,  Marlon Brando
    Director: Bernhard Wicki
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Marlon Brando stars in this adaptation of Werner Jeorg Kosa's novel. Set during World War II, an anti-Nazi pacifist on a German freighter (who is seemingly working for the British) turns out to be a double agent who is working for a German spy.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 218 members
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  • Bedtime Story on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Dody Goodman,  Shirley Jones,  David Niven
    Director: Ralph Levy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A black comedy starring Marlon Brando, David Niven and Shirley Jones. The action takes place in a quiet but rich part of Southern France where Lawrence Jameson also know as 'The Prince' (David Niven) has been conning countless women out of their fortunes for years until the arrival of Freddy Benson ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 349 members
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  • The Ugly American (1963)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Eiji Okada,  Sandra Church
    Director: George Englund
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Taken from a best-selling book, this is an uneven, politically tinged drama by George Englund that does not really follow the book that closely. Marlon Brando is Harrison Carter MacWhite, an ambassador to a Southeast Asian country that goes unnamed but stands in well for Vietnam. There is a growing ..read more »
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  • Mutiny On The Bounty on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Trevor Howard,  Richard Harris,  Marlon Brando
    Director: Lewis Milestone
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A remake of the classic 1935 film of a voyage from Portsmouth to the South Seas by The Bounty. Animosity grows between Captain Blythe (Trevor Howard) and Fletcher Christian (Marlon Brando) during the voyage, reaching a climax when the ship arrives at the island of Tahiti.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 345 members
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  • One Eyed Jacks (1961)
    Starring: Slim Pickens,  Katy Jurado,  Timothy Carey
    Director: Marlon Brando
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Western bandit Kid Rio (Marlon Brando) is betrayed by his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden). Escaping from prison, Rio learns that Longworth has become a wealthy and influential lawman. Rio thirsts for revenge, but bides his time, waiting for the right moment to strike. In the meantime, Rio ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 862 members
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  • One Eyed Jacks - Blu-ray (1961)
    Starring: Slim Pickens,  Katy Jurado,  Timothy Carey
    Director: Marlon Brando
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Marlon Brando directs and stars in this western tale of betrayal and revenge. Brando stars as Johnny Rio, a man betrayed by his best friend, Dad, and sentenced to serve five years in prison. On his release he seeks out his nemesis (now sheriff of Monterey) and seduces his step-daughter, leading the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 6 members
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  • The Fugitive Kind (1959)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Anna Magnani,  Victor Jory
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Adapted from Tennessee Williams' play 'Orpheus Descending', this US drama stars Marlon Brando as drifter Val Xavier. Arriving in a small town Val gets a job working for miserable shopkeeper Lady Torrance (Anna Magnani) and later begins an affair with her while her cruel husband Jabe (Victor Jory) ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 3 members
    Due for release on 27th May 2013
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  • Sayonara (1957)
    Starring: Martha Scott,  James Garner,  Miyoshi Umeki
    Director: Joshua Logan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Nominated for 10 Oscars and winning 4, this is a beautifully portrayed film which depicts the racism on both sides at the time of a Korean conflict. Marlon Brando is an army major who falls for a Japanese dancer and faces fierce opposition from both the American and the Japanese authorities when he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 199 members
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  • Guys And Dolls on DVD (1955)
    Starring: B. S. Pully,  She,  Vivian Blaine
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A romantic gangster musical starring Frank Sinatra and a singing Marlon Brando. Nathan Detroit (Sinatra) is a New York gambler who needs $1000 in order to stage a big game during the Prohibition era. To get the money, he issues a typically enigmatic challenge to master gambler Sky Masterson (Brando)..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,493 members
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  • The Wild One on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Hugh Sanders,  Petty Maley,  Jay C. Flippen
    Director: Laslo Benedek
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    What are you rebelling against? asks someone. What've you got? responds surly, leather-jacketed motorcycle punk Marlon Brando. It comes as a disappointment to discover that The Wild One, the quintessential Brando rebel film, is at base a traditional misunderstood youth vs. the nasty system effort, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 1,896 member
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  • On The Waterfront - Blu-ray (1954)
    Starring: John Hamilton,  Pat Hingle,  Lee J. Cobb
    Director: Elia Kazan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Elia Kazan directs this 1950s crime drama starring Marlon Brando. Ex-boxer Terry Malloy (Brando) becomes involved in corrupt dockside politics through his lawyer brother Charley (Rod Steiger), who works for gangster union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb). When Terry witnesses the murder of a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 60 members
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  • On The Waterfront on DVD (1954)
    Starring: John Hamilton,  Pat Hingle,  Lee J. Cobb
    Director: Elia Kazan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Elia Kazan directs this 1950s crime drama starring Marlon Brando. Ex-boxer Terry Malloy (Brando) becomes involved in corrupt dockside politics through his lawyer brother Charley (Rod Steiger), who works for gangster union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb). When Terry witnesses the murder of a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 15,143 members
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  • Viva Zapata (1952)
    Starring: Harold B. Gordon,  Anthony Quinn,  Lou Gilbert
    Director: Elia Kazan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and directed by Elia Kazan, this film follows the life of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) from his peasant upbringing, through his rise to power in the early 1900s, to his death. The film presents an interesting but fictionalized picture of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 481 members
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  • A Streetcar Named Desire on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Nick Dennis,  Rudy Bond,  Wright King
    Director: Elia Kazan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Elia Kazan's screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' successful Broadway play. Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) travels to New Orleans to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter). Stella's husband, Stanley (Marlon Brando), resents Blanche's presence, and is unhappy when she begins seeing his ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 4,556 members
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  • The Men (1950)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Teresa Wright
    Director: Fred Zinnemann
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Wounded veterans struggle as they must survive in post-war America, faced with the everyday difficulties of being handicapped as well as the prejudice they face due to their condition.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 177 members
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Marlon Brando facts

5 most recent films

Smash His Camera - 3.0 stars
Naqoyqatsi - 3.0 stars
Naqoyqatsi - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
The Score - 3.5 stars
The Score - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Godfather Trilogy - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
The Godfather - 4.0 stars
Apocalypse Now - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
On The Waterfront - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Hearts of Darkness - A Filmmaker's Apocalypse - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Ugly American - 3 stars
The Fugitive Kind - 2.0 stars
Naqoyqatsi - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
One Eyed Jacks - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
The Night Of The Following Day - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Karl Malden - 11 times - show films
Robert Duvall - 7 times - show films
Timothy Carey - 6 times - show films
Slim Pickens - 6 times - show films
Ben Johnson - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Francis Ford Coppola - 11 times - show films
Elia Kazan - 8 times - show films
Richard Donner - 4 times - show films
Henry Koster - 3 times - show films
Arthur Penn - 3 times - show films