American actor Marlon Brando Jr. lived from April 3, 1924, to July 1, 2004. He was recognized as one of the most significant actors of the 20th century and won numerous awards over the course of his six-decade career, including three British Academy Film Awards, two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and one Cannes Film Festival Award.
In addition, Brando supported numerous causes, including the civil rights struggle and different Native American initiatives. He is recognized as one of the first actors to introduce the Stanislavski technique of acting and method acting to general audiences after studying with Stella Adler in the 1940s.
He originally received praise and received his first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for reviving the Broadway-tested part of Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 motion picture adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire. For his portrayal of Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, he garnered additional acclaim as well as his first Academy Award and Golden Globe Award, and his portrayal of Johnny Strabler, the disobedient motorcycle gang leader in The Wild One, established himself as an enduring figure in the culture.
For his performances as Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (1952), Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1953 version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in James A. Michener’s 1954 novel Sayonara (1957), Brando got Academy Award nominations.
Brando’s career experienced a decline in popularity and critical acclaim in the 1960s. In the critically and commercially unsuccessful cult western One-Eyed Jacks, he both directed and starred. He consented to take a screen test for The Godfather after ten years of underperformance (1972).
Marlon Brando had a nine-year sabbatical from acting in the 1970s and 1980s. For 13 days of work on Superman, he received a record salary of $3.7 million ($17 million in inflation-adjusted dollars). The American Film Institute ranked Brando as the fourth greatest movie star.
Marlon Brando siblings: Jocelyn Brando, Frances Brando
Frances and Jocelyn (1919-2005) were Brando’s older sisters (1922–1994).
Jocelyn Brando was an American actress and writer who lived from November 18, 1919, until November 27, 2005. Her most famous performance was as Katie Bannion in the noir movie The Big Heat (1953).
Jocelyn Brando made her Broadway debut in 1942’s The First Crocus. She played Navy nurse Lieutenant Ann Girard in Mister Roberts, which starred family friend Henry Fonda. Jocelyn and her brother Marlon were two of the first members of the newly formed Actors Studio.
China Venture served as Brando’s directing debut (1953). Her most well-known performance came in her second movie as the detective Glenn Ford’s wife in Fritz Lang’s The Big Heat. She portrayed Mrs. Reeves in Dallas and Mrs. Krakauer in Love of Life on primetime television.
On April 4, 1950, Brando filed for divorce from actor Don Hanmer. She wed author Eliot T. Asinof in Tarrytown, New York, on April 13, 1950. Gahan Hanmer and Martin Asinof were two of her sons. On November 27, 2005, at the age of 86, she passed away at her home in Santa Monica from natural causes.
Frances Brando was born on September 1st, 1922 in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, USA.
In 1945 in New York, she wed the artist Richard Maris Loving (1924-2021). From this coupling, one boy was born. She was an artist by profession.
On April 2, 1994, Frances Brando Loving passed away in Mundelein, Lake County, Illinois, at the age of 71.
