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Birthdate: April 3, 1924
Death date: July 1, 2004
Marlon Brando
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1940s
1.4034
2
1950s
3.0955
12
1960s
2.5649
11
1970s
3.3249
6
1980s
1.3821
2
1990s
2.4286
7
2000s
2.4273
2
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.3011
3.3011
Marlon Brando Movie Rankings
1
3.9812War veteran Michael Corlone returns home to find himself becoming increasingly involved with the family "business." His father, "Don" Vito Corleone, is the head of the mafia family and eventually expects Michael to take his place when he dies. ...more about Godfather
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $7.18
(21 sellers)
2
3.7628An alien child is sent to Earth from his dying home planet to help preserve his people. When Clark discovers he has super powers he vows to use his abilities to stop evil and destruction. When Clark meets Lex Luther it seems he may have met his match. ...more about Superman
DVD from $5.99
(18 sellers)
3
3.5617Terry has been a witness and participant in the murder of dockworker, Joey. Terry's conscience begins to get the best of him when he starts falling for Joey's sister. Soon Terry will have to stand up against some of the most powerful men in New Jersey. ...more about On the Waterfront
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $11.84
(13 sellers)
4
3.4773
During the height of the Vietnam War, Special Forces Captain Willard is given the assignment to hunt and kill one of the Military's own; an insane Col. reported to have killed hundreds of innocent people and has established a personal refuge in the jungle. ...more about Apocalypse Now
DVD from $10.30
(13 sellers)
5
3.2598
A new, expanded version of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam war epic. ...more about Apocalypse Now Redux
- Not Available on DVD
6
3.1769
Blanche is in real need of a protector at this stage in her life when circumstances lead her into paying a visit to her younger sister Stella in New Orleans. ...more about Streetcar Named Desire
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Jussi Awards - Foreign Actor
DVD from $16.37
(15 sellers)
7
3.0007
All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. ...more about Guys and Dolls
DVD from $4.99
(14 sellers)
8
2.9849
Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking Romans murder Caesar, because they believe his ambition will lead to tyranny. The people of Rome are on their side until Antony, Caesar's right-hand man, makes a moving speech. ...more about Julius Caesar
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
DVD from $12.71
(12 sellers)
9
2.9037
Nick Wells, a professional criminal, decides to leave the business for good, since he nearly got caught on his last job. His plan is to live in peace with his girl Diane, running his Montreal jazz club NYC. ...more about Score
DVD from $2.10
(12 sellers)
10
2.8880
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. ...more about Mutiny on the Bounty
DVD from $14.99
(13 sellers)
11
2.8674
A gang of 40 motorcyclists, the Black Rebels, gatecrash a legitimate motorcycle race. They are eventually thrown out, but one of the gang steals the second prize trophy and gives it to their leader, Johnny. ...more about Wild One
DVD from $3.95
(11 sellers)
12
2.8529
Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. ...more about Freshman
DVD from $3.92
(12 sellers)
13
2.8524
In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the virgin Mary. ...more about Song of Bernadette
DVD from $5.99
(12 sellers)
15
2.7414
A young man (who is the legendary Don Juan?), comes to New York in search of his lost love. Feeling like he has nothing to live for, he attempts to commit suicide from atop a billboard. Dr. ...more about Don Juan DeMarco
DVD from $4.14
(13 sellers)
16
2.6395
This remake of the 1977 film stars Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, and Dragonheart's David Thewlis. Set in the year 2010, Dr. Moreau (Brando) has successfully combined human and animal DNA to make a crossbreed animal. ...more about Island of Dr. Moreau
Actor Awards
- Razzie Awards - Worst Supporting Actor
DVD from $5.99
(11 sellers)
17
2.6201
Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. ...more about Dry White Season
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
DVD from $5.80
(9 sellers)
18
2.6149
The destiny of two soldiers during World War II. The German officer Christian approves less and less of the war, while the American GI Ackerman climbs the military hierarchy. ...more about Young Lions
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
DVD from $7.68
(10 sellers)
19
2.6127
Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time. ...more about Missouri Breaks
DVD from $4.99
(10 sellers)
20
2.5718
Documents the sensational events surrounding the making of 'Apocalypse Now' (qv) and 'Francis Ford Coppola' (qv)'s struggle with nature, governments, actors, and self-doubt. Includes footage and sound secretly recorded by Elanor Coppola, wife of Francis. ...more about Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.5687
The professional British mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. ...more about Burn!
DVD from $6.79
(11 sellers)
22
2.4674
A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings. ...more about Island of Dr. Moreau
DVD from $5.99
(12 sellers)
23
2.4669
Things start to go wrong for a group of criminals after they kidnap a young heiress and hold her for ransom at a beach house in France. Fighting among the co-conspirators boils over shortly after the ransom is picked up, leading to a violent end for most. ...more about Night of the Following Day
DVD from $4.49
(19 sellers)
24
2.4274
Valentine Xavier is an "entertainer" in New Orleans - he plays a guitar given to him by Leadbelly - but when he runs afoul of the law one too many times, he vows to quit the scene and start anew elsewhere. ...more about Fugitive Kind
DVD from $5.91
(12 sellers)
25
2.4252
US politician Ogen Mears finds in his suite on the liner heading from Hongkong to Hawaii a Russian countess, who is fed up with working as a taxi-dancer in Hongkong. ...more about Countess from Hong Kong
DVD from $6.75
(15 sellers)
26
2.4013
A satire on America's very own drive of a world changer: One year after world war ii, Captain Fisby is sent to the village Tobiki in Okinawa to teach the people democracy. First step is to build a school - but the witty folks know what they really want. ...more about Teahouse of the August Moon
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical
DVD from $38.35
(12 sellers)
27
2.2295
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. ...more about Morituri
DVD from $5.91
(13 sellers)
28
2.1675
American servicemen stationed in Japan during the Korean War fall in love and marry Japanese nationals despite harsh paperwork impediments and orders to the contrary. ...more about Sayonara
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $6.34
(12 sellers)
29
2.1401
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
- Not Available on DVD
30
2.1369
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. ...more about One-Eyed Jacks
DVD from $1.99
(11 sellers)
31
2.1306
Most everyone in town thinks that Sheriff Calder is merely a puppet of rich oil-man Val Rogers. When it is learned that local baddie Bubba Reeves has escaped prison, Rogers' son is concerned because he is having an affair with Reeves' wife. ...more about Chase
DVD from $14.85
(7 sellers)
32
2.0692
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. ...more about Nightcomers
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- Not Available on DVD
33
1.9969
Dr. Cross (Vincent Price), a psychiatrist, is treating a young woman, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw), who is in a coma-state, brought on when she heard loud arguing, went to her window and saw a man strike his wife with a candlestick and kill her. ...more about Shock
DVD from $5.91
(13 sellers)
35
1.9000
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. ...more about Brave
- Not Available on DVD
36
1.8683
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. ...more about Formula
Actor Awards
- Razzie Awards - Worst Supporting Actor
DVD from $4.99
(12 sellers)
37
1.5908
Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus (George Corraface) has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies, by travelling west instead of east, across the unchartered Ocean sea. ...more about Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Actor Awards
- Razzie Awards - Worst Supporting Actor
- Not Available on DVD
39
1.2474
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. ...more about Free Money
DVD from $6.95
(5 sellers)
40
0.9967
On a U.S. Army post circa 1948, a major who is an impotent, latent homosexual is married to an infantile birdbrain who never misses an opportunity to ridicule his masculine failings. ...more about Reflections in a Golden Eye
DVD from $38.35
(12 sellers)
42
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. ...more about Ugly American
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $7.00
(17 sellers)
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