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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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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
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Marlon Brando - filmography
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The Score
on DVD (2001)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Angela Bassett
Director: Frank Oz
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Every thief dreams of the big heist that will allow him to leave the business of crime behind. Every thief except Nick (Robert De Niro), a cool, methodical safecracker who never takes on long-shot jobs until his longtime partner, Max (Marlon Brando), offers him the big score--to filch a priceless ...
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Free Money
on DVD (1998)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Donald Sutherland, Charlie Sheen
Director: Yves Simoneau
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Prison warden the Swede strikes fear in the heart of everyone, especially his sons-in-law Bud (Sheen) and Larry (Church). When the boys come across a money train carrying millions of unmarked bills to be destroyed, and the only obstacle between them and untold riches is the Swede himself, they must ...
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The Brave
(1997)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Marshall Bell
Director: Johnny Depp
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Johnny Depp writes, directs and stars in this tense drama about a man racing to save his own life. Depp plays Raphael, whose family are struggling to make ends meet and defy poverty. He seeks a more secure future for his family when he meets the sinister McCarthy (Brando) who offers him $30000 to ...
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The Island Of Dr Moreau
on DVD (1996)
Starring: Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, Marlon Brando
Director: John Frankenheimer
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Marlon Brando stars as the eponymous scientist in the third adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic. The archetypal mad scientist, the good doctor has been conducting a number of experiments in his remote island kindom, producing a race of genetic mutants both man and beast in his quest to produce a ...
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Don Juan De Marco
on DVD (1995)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway
Director: Jeremy Leven
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Dr Jack Mickler, ten days before his retirement, takes on his last case as a psychiatrist. The case is that of Don Juan, who has seduced more than a thousand women, and starts Dr Mickler re-evaluating his own life...
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The Freshman
on DVD (1990)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby
Director: Andrew Bergman
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THE FRESHMAN is a wry and winsome film about Clark, a freshman film student (Matthew Broderick) in New York City, who is made an offer he can't refuse by a Mafia don (Marlon Brando) who is the spitting image of Don Corleone. As Clark weighs the romance against the danger of his association, he ...
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A Dry White Season
on DVD (1989)
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae
Director: Euzhan Palcy
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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 ...
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The Formula
on DVD (1980)
Starring: Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, Marthe Keller
Director: John G. Avildsen
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During World War II, Germany developed a method to derive cheap, pollution-free gasoline from coal. But when the Third Reich collapsed, the formula disappeared. A lone L.A. detective sets out to find it.
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Apocalypse Now Redux
on DVD (1979)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Released in August 2001, APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX, a restored and updated version of the 1979 film, includes 49 minutes of never-before-seen footage, a Technicolor enhancement, and a six-channel soundtrack.Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic, loosely based on HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad, ...
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Superman
on DVD (1978)
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando
Director: Richard Donner
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In Richard Donner's blockbuster, the Superman myth is well told, from his birth on the doomed planet Krypton to his childhood in a small Kansas town and beyond. After he comes of age, young Clark Kent, as his Earth parents have named him, learns the truth of his alien birth on a voyage of discovery ...
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Superman - HD DVD Version
(1978)
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando
Director: Richard Donner
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Born on planet Krypton but raised in Kansas, USA, Clark Kent (as his Earth parents have named him) embarks on a voyage of self-discovery to the Arctic, where he learns the truth about his alien origins, superhuman abilities, and responsibility to preserve and protect 'truth, justice and the ...
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The Missouri Breaks
on DVD (1976)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid
Director: Arthur Penn
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It's the wild frontier and anything goes, especially in the untamed territory of Montana. Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) leads a gang of cattle thieves out for revenge when one of its members is hanged by wealthy rancher David Braxton. Braxton, however, has hired expert manhunter Lee Clayton (Marlon ...
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The Nightcomers
on DVD (1972)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham, Thora Hird
Director: Michael Winner
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Isolated in a traditional English country manor, two rich orphans--Miles (Christopher Ellis) and Flora (Verna Harvey)--have only their nurse, their housekeeper, and a strange gardener named Quint (Marlon Brando) to provide them with company and care. The youngsters are particularly intrigued by ...
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Burn
on DVD (1969)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Sal Marquez, Renato Salvatori
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
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Manipulative English mercenary Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) is posted to a Portuguese colony in the Caribbean. Once there he uses his skills to engineer a slave revolt as part of his calculated plans for the English to seize control of the colony.
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The Chase
on DVD (1966)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford
Director: Arthur Penn
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Robert Redford plays Bubba Reeves, an escaped convict who is returning to the small Texas town he calls home to visit his wife. Bubba's wife, the sheriff, and the rest of the town are none too pleased when they catch wind of Bubba's return. His wife is cheating on him with Roger, the son of the ...
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Morituri
on DVD (1965)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard
Director: Bernhard Wicki
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A British secret agent is sent to sabotage a German freight ship and deliver the cargo of rubber into Allied hands. The German captain in charge of the ship has been ordered to ensure that it reaches it's destination safely...
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Bedtime Story
on DVD (1964)
Starring: Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones
Director: Ralph Levy
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In this 1960s comedy, Freddy Benson (Marlon Brando) and Lawrence 'The Prince' Jameson (David Niven) are two charming scoundrel confidence trickster gigolos who prey on wealthy women taking holidays on the French Riviera. The pair join a playful competition to see who is best at the job, and the ...
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Mutiny On The Bounty
on DVD (1962)
Starring: Richard Harris, Trevor Howard, Marlon Brando
Director: Lewis Milestone
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Lewis Milestone replaced Carol Reed as director on this third version of Nordhoff and Hall's classic true account of naval rebellion. The film stars Marlon Brando as the spirited Fletcher Christian and Trevor Howard as the tyrannical Captain Bligh. Their ship, the Bounty, leaves Portsmouth in 1787, ...
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Sayonara
on DVD (1957)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, Kent Smith
Director: Joshua Logan
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Marlon Brando is an American serviceman on leave in Japan during the Korean War who discovers that his long-distance relationship with his fiancee has faltered. He soon finds that he has fallen in love with a Japanese entertainer (Miko Taka), despite the policies and standards set by the American ...
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Guys And Dolls
on DVD (1955)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Based on the Broadway show from the Damon Runyon short story and filled to the brim with Frank Loesser tunes such as "Luck Be a Lady" and "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat," this outrageously comic film featuring Marlon Brando's bold musical debut is a colorful tale about gamblers, a feisty ...
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The Wild One
on DVD (1954)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith
Director: Laslo Benedek
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The Wild One is the original motorcycle film, starring Marlon Brando as the brooding leader of a biker gang that invades a small town. The film always looked like one of those synthetic Hollywood ideas of subculture life in the 1950s, which means it looks even more artificial today. But it ...
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On The Waterfront
on DVD (1954)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Director: Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances. Brando is Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the ...
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Viva Zapata
on DVD (1952)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn
Director: Elia Kazan
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Set in the early 1900s, VIVA ZAPATA! tells the story of Mexican rebel Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando), who rallies the countryside against the government and eventually assumes the role of president. John Steinbeck wrote the film's screenplay.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
(2 discs)
on DVD (1951)
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter
Director: Elia Kazan
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Tennessee Williams based his screenplay on Oscar Saul's adaptation of Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in a grimy New Orleans project. The story of the fragile sentimentalism of a former prostitute who visits her sister only to be taunted mercilessly by her childish brother-in-law. Academy ...
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The Men
on DVD (1950)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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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.
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Naqoyqatsi
on DVD
Starring: Marlon Brando, Elton John
Director: Godfrey Reggio
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With a pulsing Philip Glass soundtrack graced by the beautiful cello music of Yo-Yo Ma, Godfrey Reggio's NAQOYQATSI is the final instalment of his Qatsi trilogy, which also includes KOYAANISQATSI and POWAQQATSI. In this film, computer-enhanced imagery rolls across the screen to the tune of the ...
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The Appaloosa
on DVD
Starring: Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer, John Saxon
Director: Sidney J. Furie
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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.
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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 ...
Classic, unrivalled superhero epic 22 October 2004
