Marlon Brando Filmography

Brando's screen debut
Role: Ken Wilcheck
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb
Runtime: 85 min
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Plot: Paralized war vet tries to adjust to the world without the use of his limbs.

Role: Stanley Kowalski
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
Runtime: 122 min | USA:125 min (re-release)
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Plot: Disturbed Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

Role: Emiliano Zapata
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Jean Peters
Runtime: 113 min | Argentina: 115 min
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Plot: The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Diaz in the early 20th century.

Role: Mark Antony
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: James Mason, John Gielgud, Deborah Kerr
Runtime: 120 min
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Plot: The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.

Role: Johnny Strabler / Narrator
Directed by: Laslo Benedek
Cast: Mary Murphy, Lee Marvin
Runtime: 79 min
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Plot: Two rival motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail.

Won Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Role: Terry Malloy
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Cast: Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger
Runtime: 108 min
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Plot: An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.

Role: Napoleon Bonaparte
Directed by: Henry Koster
Cast: Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon
Runtime: 110 min
Plot: The rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France.

Role: Sky Masterson
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons, Vivian Blaine
Runtime: 150 min | 152 min (with overture and exit music)
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Plot: A big-city gambler bets that he can seduce a Salvation Army girl.

Role: Sakini
Directed by: Daniel Mann
Cast: Glenn Ford, Eddie Albert, Machiko Kyo
Runtime: 123 min
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Plot: An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life.

Role: Maj. Lloyd 'Ace' Gruver
Directed by: Joshua Logan
Cast: James Garner, Patricia Owens, Red Buttons
Runtime: 147 min
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Plot: A US air force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.

Role: Lt. Christian Diestl
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Lee Van Cleef
Runtime: 167 min
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Plot: The destiny of three soldiers during World War II. The German officer Christian Diestl approves less and less of the war. Jewish-American Noah Ackerman deals with anti-Semitism at home and in the army while entertainer Michael Whiteacre transforms from playboy to hero.

Role: Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward
Runtime: 119 min
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Plot: Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence, a sex-starved woman whose husband Jabe M. Torrance is dying of cancer upstairs.

Role: Rio
Directed by: Himself
Cast: Karl Malden, Ben Johnson
Runtime: 141 min
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Plot: Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.

Role: 1st Lt. Fletcher Christian
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
Runtime: 178 min | UK:185 min
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Plot: Lavish remake of the classic tale of the villainous Captain Bligh who drives his crew to revolt during a South Seas expedition.

Role: Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite
Directed by: George Englund
Cast: Eiji Okada, Pat Hingle, Jocelyn Brando
Runtime: 120 min | Germany: 115 min
Plot: An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once he's there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism. He can't accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for self-determination and nationalism. So, he breaks from his friend Deong, a local opposition leader, ignores a foreman's advice about slowing the building of a road, and tries to muscle ahead. What price must the country and his friends pay for him to get some sense?

Role: Freddy Benson
Directed by: Ralph Levy
Cast: David Niven, Shirley Jones
Runtime: 99 min
Plot: Two con-men engage in a competitve game of seducing wealthy women on the French Riviera.

Role: Robert Crain
Directed by: Bernhard Wicki
Cast: Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard
Runtime: 123 min
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Plot: A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.

Role: Himself
Directed by: Albert Maysles, David Mayles
Runtime: 28 min
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Plot: Journalists from all over America meet Marlon Brando in a New York hotel room to interview him about his new film, Morituri. Seeing this as an opportunity to let the legendary actor promote the film, they find Brando unwilling to talk about it, instead he is more interested in larking about and turning on the charm when being interviewed by a former winner of the Miss USA competition.

Role: Sheriff Calder
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Cast: Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E.G. Marchal, Robert Duvall
Runtime: 135 min
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Plot: The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

Role: Matt Fletcher
Directed by: Sidney J. Furie
Cast: John Saxon, Miriam Colon
Runtime: 98 min
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Plot: A wandering cowboy returns to his sleepy border hometown with the hopes of settling down. But when a merciless Mexican bandit steals his prize possession, it's a fight to the death for honor in the Old West.

Role: Ogden Mears
Directed by: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Sophia Loren, Tippi Hedren
Runtime: 120 min | USA: 108 min
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Plot: US politican Ogen Mears finds in his suit on the liner heading from Hongkong to Hawaii a russian countess, who is fed up with working as a taxi-dancer in Hongkong. Mears falls in love, but there is his wife waiting for him in Hawaii, and a divorce would ruin his chances of being elected.

Role: Maj. Weldon Penderton
Directed by: John Huston
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Brian Keith, Julie Harris
Runtime: 108 min
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Plot: A military officer becomes obsessed with an enlisted man.

Role: Grindl
Directed by: Christian Marquand
Cast: Richard Burton, James Coburn, John Huston, Walter Matthau
Runtime: UK:124 min | Portugal:113 min | USA:115 min
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Plot: Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel, a sendup of Voltaire's -Candide-. Young Candy is a high school girl who seeks truth and meaning in life, encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process.

Role: Chauffeur
Directed by: Hubert Cornfield
Cast: Rita Moreno, Richard Boone
Runtime: 93 min
Plot: Two men kidnap a girl off the streets, take her to a beach house owned by a drug-addicted stewardess, and hold her for ransom.

Role: Sir William Walker
Directed by: Gillo Pontecorvo
Cast: Renato Salvatori, Giampiero Albertini
Runtime: USA:112 min | USA:132 min (restored version)
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Plot: A British agent stifles a slave revolt on a Caribbean island.

Role: Peter Quint
Directed by: Michael Winner
Cast: Harry Andrews, Stephanie Beacham
Runtime: 96 min
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Plot: Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in their care.

Won Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Role: Don Vito Corleone
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Runtime: 175 min
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Plot: Epic tale of a 1940s New York Mafia family and their struggle to protect their empire from rival families as the leadership switches from the father to his youngest son.

Role: Paul
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Maria Schneider, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Runtime: 136 min | USA:127 min (R-rated version) | Italy:250 min (original cut)
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Plot: A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middled-aged American businessman whom lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex.

Role: Lee Clayton
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Harry Dean Staton
Runtime: 126 min
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Plot: An outlaw's attempts to go straight fall short when a rival rancher hires a psychotic gunman.

Role: Jor-El
Directed by: Richard Donner
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Glenn Ford
Runtime: 143 min | USA:127 min (1980 video release) | USA:151 min (2000 restoration)
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Role: Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper
Runtime: 153 min | 202 min (Redux version)
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Plot: During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.

Role: Adam Steiffel, Chairman Titan Oil
Directed by: John G. Avildsen
Cast: George C. Scott, John Gielgud
Runtime: 117 min
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Plot: A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil-and oil companies. A major oil company finds out about it and tries to destroy the formula and anyone who knows about it.

Role: Ian McKenzie
Directed by: Auzhan Palcy
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Susan Sarandon
Runtime: 97 min | West Germany:107 min
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Plot: In South Africa, a white schoolteacher's life and values are threatened when he asks about a black boy who died in police custody.

Role: Carmine Sabatini
Directed by: Andrew Bergman
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Maximilian Schell
Runtime: 102 min
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Plot: A young film student gets mixed up with the mob when his possessions are stolen.

Role: Tomas de Torquemada
Directed by: John Glen
Cast: Tom Selleck, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Benicio Del Toro
Runtime: 120 min
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Plot: Genoese navigator overcomes intrigue in the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain and gains financing for his expedition to the East Indies.

Role: Dr. Jack Mickler
Directed by: Jeremy Leven
Cast: Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway
Runtime: 97 min
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Plot: Days before his scheduled retirement, a clinical psychiatrist treats a young man who believes he is the legendary lover Don Juan. During the sessions that ensue, the doctor is forced to rethink his beliefs about life, love and passion, and whether or not Don Juan's alive and well--and sitting in his office.

Role: Dr. Moreau
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Cast: David Thewlis, Fairuza Balk, Val Kilmer
Runtime: 96 min | USA:99 min (director's cut)
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Plot: After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that it's inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor.

Role: McCarthy
Directed by: Johnny Depp
Cast: Johnny Depp, Marshall Bell, Frederic Forrest
Runtime: 123 min
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Plot: A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.

Role: Warden Sven 'The Swede' Sorenson
Directed by: Yves Simoneau
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen, Mira Sorvino
Runtime: 91 min
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Plot: Walrus-like warden, Sven "Swede" Sorenson, a cross between Bluto and Wimpy, runs the prison, murders convicts who escape, and has the FBI on his trail in the form of agent Karen Polarski, the daughter of the town's corrupt judge.

Role: Max Baron
Directed by: Frank Oz
Cast: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Angela Basset
Runtime: 124 min
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Plot: An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.