1924-
Actor

The Look.

Before James Dean, Vlarlon Brando popularized the eans-and-T-shirt look, with and without leather jacket, as a movie idol during the early 1950s. The heatrically trained actor began to urn away from his youth-oriented persona with such movie roles as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (1953). After winning an Academy Award for Best Actor for On the Waterfront (1954), he portrayed a wide variety of characters on-screen, garnering popular acclaim and critical consensus as one of the greatest cinema actors of the late twentieth century.

Background.

Brando was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on 3 April 1924. After expulsion from a military academy he dug ditches until his father offered to finance his education. Brando moved to New York to study with acting coach Stella Adler and at Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio. While at the Actors' Studio, Brando adopted the Method approach, which emphasizes characters' motivations for actions...