Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor. Considered one of the most influential actors of the twentieth century, he received numerous honors during his six-decade career, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, one Cannes Film Festival Award, and three British Academy Film Awards. Brando was also an activist for a variety of causes, most notably the civil rights movement and various Native American movements. He is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system and method acting to mainstream audiences, having studied with Stella Adler in the 1940s.
He received critical acclaim and his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for reprising his Broadway role of Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire. He received additional praise, as well as his first Academy Award and Golden Globe Award, for his performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, and his portrayal of the rebellious motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One became an iconic image in popular culture. Brando received Academy Award nominations for his roles as Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (1952), Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara (1957), an adaptation of James A. Michener’s 1954 novel.
Was Marlon Brando married at the time of his death?
Kashfi and Brando’s divorce was finalized in 1960. She married electronics executive James Hannaford in 1974. He passed away in 1986. Brando married twice more before passing away in 2004 at the age of 80 from congestive heart failure.
