Talk:Marlon Brando
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Brando also received an Oscar for On the Waterfront --zeno 04:19 Jan 31, 2003 (UTC)
"Uninspired performances " in poor films in the second half of the sixties?
This is largely true, but there are two exceptions.
"Reflections In A Golden Eye" is amongst Brando's best performances, while "The Night Of The Following Day" is a very good film. However, neither were very successful at the box office.
Have heard on a radio program that Brando's Don Corleone characterization (especially speech) was based on his observation of producer Dino DeLaurentiis...have not been able to confirm. Should go in the article if this is true. 20:08, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I really liked the job he did in the first Superman movie..."This is no fantasy. No careless product of wild imagination. No, my good friends, these indictments I have brought you today, the specific charges listed herein against the individuals, their acts of treason, their ultimate aim of sedition. These are matters of undeniable fact. I ask you now to pronounce judgment on those accused. On this, this mindless aberration, whose only means of expression are wanton violence and destruction. On the woman Ursa, whose perversions and unreasoning hatred of all mankind have threatened even the children of the planet Krypton. Finally, General Zod. Once trusted by this Council, charged with maintaining the defense of the planet Krypton itself. Chief architect of this revolution, and author of this insidious plot, to establish a "New Order" amongst us. With himself as absolute ruler. You have heard the evidence. The decision of the Council will now be heard."
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Brando bio/New School
Finding no better way to pose the question ("Contact Us?") I wanted to ask/alert someone that the "New School" link on the Brando biographical site sends you to a reference to "a course grouping at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec, . . ." I'm guessing that the reference should be to New School University in NYC (New School for Social Research) in which The Actors' Studio is a highly respected college.
ancestry / ethnicity
We so far have "He was of Dutch, French, English and Irish stock; the original family name was Brandeau." (I added Dutch in as he was a descendant of Neeltje Sellen and Weigand Pennebaker). But it's worth a note here to say that these sort of tidbits are the things actors often make up on the spot, and I wouldn't be too quick to accept the "Brandeau" as the origin of the name of his one "Brando" ancestor in each generation.
He is also said to be father of 1 adopted child and 9 acknowledged children, but an actual list is hard to find:
- by 1st wife, Anna Kashfi (who was born Joan O'Callaghan)
- 1. Christian Devi Brando, AKA Gary Brown (1958),
- by Movita Castanada, 2nd wife
- 2. Miko Brando (1960)
- by Tarita Teriipia, 3rd wife
- 3. Rebecca Brando (xxxx)
- 4. Tehotu Simon Brando (1962)
- 5. Cheyenne Brando (1970-1995)
- by Christina Ruiz, his former housekeeper
- 6. Ninna Priscilla Brando (1989)
- 7. Miles Brando (1992)
- 8. Timothy Brando (1994)
- by unknown mother
- 9. Stephano Mosca Brando (AKA) Stephen Blackehart (1967)
- by adoption
- 10. Petra Parrett Brando, the biological daughter (b. 1970) of novelist James Clavell and Caroline Barrett
- other reputed children
- Lisa Warmer, daughter of actress Cynthia Lynn
I would imagine that this is all such a complicated mess the facts will only become apparent after DNA testing, if it's performed (as it no doubt wil be if rumors of his pennilessness are, as reported, exaggerated. - Nunh-huh 00:59, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- The last time I was in Tahiti, in August of 1995, I was at the Faaa International airport waiting to catch my morning flight out. Sitting at the bar, having either a beer or a coffee, I forget which, was a young man about 18 to 20 years old who looked so much like Marlon Brando that my mouth almost dropped open. I had lived in Tahiti for 25 years and had never seen him before. Who he was, I still don't know. Judging from the above info about Brando's kids it's possible it was Tehotu Simon Brando but he would have been 32 at the time and this man definitely seemed quite a bit younger than that. Brando was reclusive all the time he stayed in Tahiti and I never met him (I saw him once at the airport) but many of my close friends knew him and I never heard any talk about there being illegitimate offspring, and Tahiti was certainly the gossip capital of the world. But who knows...?Hayford Peirce 17:23, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- You're probably right, the obituaries all insist that there are about 3-5 more, unnamed, illegitimate or unacknowledged children...so you probably met one<g> - Nunh-huh 02:07, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- The main page has just added two more kids, both with Tahitian names but no known mother. "Maimiti" (if that's a male name) could be the right age for the fellow I saw at the airport.Hayford Peirce 23:50, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- The New York Times says that Maimiti is a daughter. And Google says that Maimiti is the name of the female character in Mutiny on the Bounty that Brando fell in love with, ie, the one played by Tarita. So Maimiti is not the Brando look-alike I saw at the bar....Hayford Peirce 17:07, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
wrong date of birth
Brando was born in 1924 not 1935
Brando
You are mistaken Miko is not Brando's son.
Gay category
I removed this reference. If someone has some facts, not gossip, please reinsert them. Ted Wilkes 11:58, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)