Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor with a career spanning 60 years, during which he won many accolades, including two Academy Awards for Best Actor, three BAFTA Awards for Best Foreign Actor and two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor — Motion Picture Drama. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in 20th-century film. Brando was also an activist for many causes, notably the civil rights movement and various Native American movements. Having studied with Stella Adler in the 1940s, he is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting and method acting, derived from the Stanislavski system, to mainstream audiences.
| Full name at birth | Marlon Brando Jr.
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| Claim to fame | his roles as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, his Academy Award-winning performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront and his Academy Award-winning performance as Vito Corleone in The Godfather
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| Date of birth | 3 April 1924
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| Place of birth | Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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| Date of death | 1 July 2004
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| Age | 80 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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| Cause of death | Respiratory failure from pulmonary fibrosis with congestive heart failure
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| Resting place | Cremated, Ashes scattered
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| Occupation | Actor, Film Director, Activist, Writer
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| Height | 5' 9" (175 cm)
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| Weight | 242 lbs (110 kg)
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| Net worth | $100,000,000 USD
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| Talent agency | 805Basecamp
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- The very last film role that was ever offered to him was Rayburn in Man on Fire (2004), less than a year before he passed away. The role instead went to Christopher Walken.
- Turned down Stacy Keach's role in American History X (1998).
- He was sought for the role of O'Brien the interrogator in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), along with Sean Connery and Paul Scofield. Scofield accepted the part, but had to drop out of shooting after breaking his arm and was replaced by Richard Burton.
- Youngest of three children.
- Turned down the role of the Headless Horseman in _Sleepy Hollow (1999)_ .
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