Marlon
Brando
Jr.
Born in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
Jocelyn P. Brando and Frances Elizabeth (Brando) Loving
Husband of
[private wife (1930s - unknown)]
Husband of
[private wife (1910s - unknown)]
Husband of
[private wife (1940s - unknown)]
Father of
[private child (1950s - 2000s)], [private son (1960s - unknown)], [private son (1960s - unknown)], [private daughter (1960s - unknown)], [private daughter (1970s - 1990s)], [private daughter (1970s - unknown)], [private child (1970s - unknown)], [private child (1980s - unknown)], [private daughter (1980s - unknown)], [private son (1990s - unknown)] and [private son (1990s - unknown)]
Died
at age 80
in Westwood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
Profile last modified
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Biography
Marlon Brando Jr. is Notable.
Marlon Brando Jr. was born in Nebraska.
Marlon was an Amateur Radio Operator, Callsign: KE6PZH/FO5GJ
Marlon was born in 1924. He is the son of Marlon Brando and Dorothy Pennebaker. He passed away in 2004.
Early Life
Marlon Brando was the youngest of three children. His father was a pesticide and chemical feed manufacturer, his mother was an actress herself and a theater administrator, who helped Henry Jaynes Fonda (1905-1982) to start his career.[1] His mother was an alcoholic and in 1935, Brando's parents separated.[1] The children moved with the mother to California. Marlon already as a boy liked to mimic the mannerism of his friends.[1]
Acting
At the start of the 1940s, Marlon decided to go to New York City, where his sisters already lived. He enrolled in Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop at the New School.[2]. He started his acting career on Broadway, most notably he played there in A Streetcar Named Desire, which was directed by Elia Kazan (1909-2003).[1] With Kazan he worked later in his screenplay career in several movies.[2]
In 1949, Marlon left the theater stage for good, stating later playing in theaters drained him emotionally. [1] A Streetcar Named Desire was adapted into a screenplay version, where he again played the role of Stanley Kowalski. For this role, he got an American Award nomination just as for the role of Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata!. He won the American Award for his play of Terry Malloy in the movie On the Waterfront, which won eight Oscars in 1955.[3]
Afterwards he starred in several blockbusters, like Sayonara,[4] that led to controversies because of showing interracial marriages.[1] Marlon had established his own production company named Pennebaker[2] after his late mother, that cooperated with Paramount to create movies with a social relevance.[1] In 1961, he debuted as director in the Western One-Eyed Jack because he had a falling out with Stanley Nicholson Kubrick (1928-1999), who was originally hired to direct the movie.[2] While Marlon shot Mutiny on the Bounty, he gained a reputation of being a difficult character to work with.[1]
During the 1960s, his acting career was on a rollercoaster, when Marlon shot some commercial successes, but also some movies that were not successful at the Box office.[2] His career came at a turning point, when Francis Ford Coppola casted him for the role of Vito Corleone in The Godfather, for which he was awarded a second Academy Award.[5][1] He then starred in one of his last major roles in Last Tango in Paris, which was very controversial because of the sexual content of the movie.[1][2] In 1976, Marlon starred in a movie alongside Jack Nicholson, but the critics were very unkind with him. Francis Ford Coppola cast him again in 1979 for his movie Apocalypse Now, where Marlon starred in the role of Colonel Walter E. Curtz. After receiving bad critics for a role in The Formula[2], he announced his retirement from acting. However, in 1989, he shot A Dry White Season, based on an anti-apartheid novel.[1] He then got known for negotiating big fees for small roles.[1][2] His last completed movie is from 2001.[1]
Outside Acting
In his later years, Marlon experimented with drumheads and was granted several United States patents.[6]
Personal Life
Marlon was known to have a tumultuous private life. He was father to at least 11 children,[2] of whom three were adopted.[1] In 1976, he told a French journalist, "Homosexuality is so much in fashion, it no longer makes news. Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences, and I am not ashamed. I have never paid much attention to what people think about me. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing."[7] [8][9] He was also a good friend of Michael Joseph Jackson (1958-2009). Marlon's son Miko was a bodyguard of Jackson[1] and Marlon often spent several weeks or months on Jackson's Neverland-ranch.[1]
Marlon died on 1 July 2004 because of lung failure. He also suffered from diabetes and liver cancer.[1]
Sources
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 Wikipedia contributors, "Marlon Brando," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marlon_Brando&oldid=1214623330 (accessed March 30, 2024).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 IMDb contributors, "Marlon Brando"
(https://www.imdb.com/ : accessed 29 March 2024) Internet Movie Database Biography
- ↑ https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1955
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050933/?ref_=nmbio_mbio
- ↑ https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1973
- ↑ https://patents.justia.com/inventor/marlon-brando
- ↑ Brando, Anna Kashfi; Stein, E.P. (1979). Brando for Breakfast. New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 0-517-53686-2 , p. 268.
- ↑ Bosworth, Patricia (2001). Marlon Brando. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-84284-6 , p. 190.
- ↑ Stern, Keith (2009). Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians and Bisexual. Jackson, TN: BenBella Books. ISBN 978-1-933771-87-8 p. 70
- LDS FHL Ancestral File # (familysearch.org)
- AWTP: "The Ancestry of Overmire Tifft Richardson Bradford Reed" Larry Overmire
- "United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQKX-SD5: 8 December 2015), Marlon Brando Jr. in the entry for Marlon Brando, 1930.
- "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWCQ-XQY: accessed 24 October 2016), Marlon Brando in the household of Marlon Brando, Libertyville Township, Lake, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 49-54, sheet 13B, family 212, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 829.
- Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
Find A Grave: Memorial #9026023 (accessed 29 March 2024)
Memorial page for Marlon Brando (3 Apr 1924-1 Jul 2004); Maintained by Find a Grave. - "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 22 March 2022, 00:09), entry for (FamilySearch Person: L414-HVQ); contributed by various users.
See also:
- This WikiTree profile is referenced from Wikidata: Item Q34012, en:Wikipedia
- Marlon Brando on Wikipedia
- Marlon Brando on IMDb
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