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Famous birthdays - actor Marlon Brando, born in Omaha, Nebraska on April 3, 1924. Marlon Brando is widely considered to be the greatest movie actor of all time. He was best known for his roles as Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire"  and his Academy Award–winning performance as Terry Malloy in "On the Waterfront", both directed by Elia Kazan in the early 1950s. In middle age, his well-known roles include his Academy Award–winning performance as Vito Corleone in "The Godfather", "Colonel Walter Kurtz" in Apocalypse Now, both directed by Francis Ford Coppola and an Academy Award–nominated performance as Paul in "Last Tango in Paris."

Marlon Brando Trivia per IMDB:

Two years before Brando declined his Oscar for Best Actor in The Godfather (1972), he'd applied to the Academy to replace the one he'd won for On the Waterfront (1954), which had been stolen. Prior to its theft, Brando had been using the Oscar as a doorstop.

Lived on infamous "Bad Boy Drive" (Muholland Drive in Beverly Hills, California), which received its nickname because its residents were famous "bad boy" actors Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and Brando.

He was offered a chance to reprise his role as Vito Corleone in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Jor El in Superman II (1980), but he turned them both down due to his own credo that once he finished a role, he put it away and moved on. He turned down both films despite being offered three times more money than any of his co-stars.

Took possession of friend Wally Cox's ashes from his widow in order to scatter them at sea but actually kept them hidden in a closet at his house.

Rode his own Triumph 6T Thunderbird, registration #63632, in The Wild One (1953).

Was the first male actor to break the $1-million threshold when MGM offered him that amount to star in Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

Turned down the role of the Sundance Kid in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) after Paul Newman took over the production from Steve McQueen. McQueen, who was obsessed with Newman as his rival as a movie actor and superstar, had bought the script from William Goldman, originally called "The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy". McQueen was slated to play "The Sundance Kid". When he dropped out and Newman took over the production, the title was reversed and Brando was offered the role

He was an avid user of the Internet in his final years, often going into chat rooms to start arguments.


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