Marlon Brando

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Marlon Brando: Biography

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Birth Name: Marlon Brando Jr.
Birth Place: Omaha, NE
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 04/03/1924, Aries
Date of Death: 07/01/2004
Profession: Actor

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Marlon Brando: TV Guide News

Ask FlickChick: Cigarettes and Werewolves Go Missing, and More | Ask FlickChick | 7/26/2007
Question: I saw and liked Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow but was wondering: What was the source of Sir Laurence Olivier's performance? I've always wanted to know. — JayFlickChick: The late Sir Laurence Olivier's "performance" as Professor Totenkopf ("dead head" in German) in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) was digitally built from archival BBC footage of Olivier giving a speech at some fund-raising event. The movements of his mouth were manipulated to match the film's dialogue, and the footage was processed to look like a staticky video holograph. The same basic technology was used to alter existing footage of Marlon Brando from Superman (1978) so he could speak new dialogue for Superman Returns (2006). But in Superman Returns, the Brando footage looks as "real" as the rest, so it's another step toward being truly able to have a living actor appear alongside a dead one, the way singers can now do thoroughly convincing "duets" by integrating their new tracks... read more
Roush Review | 4/25/2007
Once upon a not very long time ago, Saturday Night Live had character — make that characters. Wayne and Garth, Han read more
FlickChick | 3/23/2006
I know actors improvise their lines all the time in comedies, but recently I learned that Anthony Hopkins read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 3/3/2006
While all those media-maven types theorize about the true meaning of read more
FlickChick | 3/2/2006
Renee Zellweger has been nominated for an Oscar three years in a row ? can you tell me how many other t read more

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Marlon Brando: Credits

Title	Year	Type
Superman Returns (Actor - Jor-El)	2006	Movie
Apocalypse Now Redux (Actor - Col. Watler E. Kurtz)	2001	Movie
The Score (Actor - Max)	2001	Movie
Free Money (Actor - The Swede)	1999	Movie
The Island Of Dr. Moreau (Actor - Dr. Moreau)	1996	Movie