Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando was an American actor, born in 1924 and died in 2004, widely regarded as one of the most influential screen performers and one of the first to bring Stanislavski-based method acting to mainstream audiences. He studied under Stella Adler, made his Broadway debut in 1944 and became famous as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire on stage and in the 1951 film. He won Academy Awards for Best Actor for On the Waterfront and The Godfather, played the rebel Johnny Strabler in The Wild One, and appeared in Apocalypse Now and Superman. He made his directorial debut with the western One-Eyed Jacks in 1961 and won a Primetime Emmy Award for the miniseries Roots: The Next Generations.