It was a plan conceived over a breakfast of bread and butter. Bernardo Bertolucci, the director of ''Last Tango in Paris,'' liked it, the assistant director liked it and so did the film's star, Marlon Brando. They left it to Brando to break the news to his young co-star, Maria Schneider. At the time, Schneider was 19, a runaway and a stoner with...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- Mary Murphy, an actress best known for her role opposite Marlon Brando in the 1953 film ''The Wild One,'' died on May 4 at her home here. She was 80. The cause was heart disease, her daughter and only survivor, Stephanie Specht, told The Los Angeles Times. Ms. Murphy had small parts in a number of movies in the early...
DARK HARBOR The War for the New York Waterfront By Nathan Ward 250 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26 Say you're a New York City newspaper reporter and the year is 1948. Your editor tells you to go down to the docks and check out the latest in a string of murders. For some reporters, the task would have meant an afternoon of work. For Malcolm...
Marlon Brando (3. april 1924 - 1. juli 2004) var en amerikansk skuespiller. Hans skuespil sammen med hans offentlige profil som en outsider i forhold til Hollywood i de tidlige 1950'ere, havde en væsentlig indflydelse på en hel generation af skuespillere som James Dean og Paul Newman. En senere filmstjerne som Robert De Niro blev også stærk inspireret af Marlon Brando.
Marlon Brando voksede op i Omaha, Nebraska i USA.
Den 28. marts 1973 nægtede han at modtage en Oscar i protest mod USA's opførsel over for det indianske folk og især mod Hollywood-filmindustriens ideologiske fremstilling af konflikten mellem den oprindelige indianske befolkning og de europæiske indvandrere, som erobrede landet.
Brando kæmpede i en lang årrække en offentlig kamp for den indianske befolknings vilkår og rettigheder, men også for de sorte amerikaneres borgerrettigheder, og han marcherede sammen med Martin Luther King og aktionerede til fordel for fængslede aktivister fra De Sorte Pantere. Fold ud