2. Upbringing
• The son of a actress who became a severe
alcholic and a viscious cold womanizer. He had
a tough childhood and in school was a real-life
juvenile delinquent who once rode a
motorcycle through the school corridors.
3. Breakout
• He made his name on the stage in “A streetcar
named Desire” but his first films that he really
stood out in were The Men (where he took
the Method to its logical extreme by taking to
a wheelchair and visiting veterans hospitals in
order to portray a disabled Vietnam veteran)
and the film adaption of A Streetcar named
Desire.
4. Private Lives
• By the end of his life Brando had children by at
least four women and his private life was
fraught with lawsuits (including when his
daughter's half-brother shot her boyfriend)
and this, combined with his penchant for
playing anti-heroic characters gradually built
his persona as a dark, flawed (in the Jungian
fashion) star up.
5. Famous Roles
• Marlon played many roles, but his most
famous were the tragic Nazi Christian, the
iconic Biker Johnny, the brutal renegade
Kurtz, Jor-El the father of Superman, and most
famously master gangster Vito Corleone in the
Godfather.
6. Looks
Marlon Brando dressed,
famously, in the James Dean
style of leather jackets and
tilted caps in his earlier days.
He had a distinctive square
jaw, a big nose and small
ears.
Later on in life he grew much
fatter, a strong contrast to
his early days that somehow
only reinforced his flawed
image.
