Voting Station

Marlon Brando Sr.

Please vote to return to collections.

Celebrity's Relative

The Resume

    (January 11, 1895-July 17, 1965)
    Born in Omaha, Nebraska
    Father of Marlon Brando
    Produced 'The Naked Edge' (1961) and 'The Wild Seed' (1965)
    Appeared on Person to Person

Why he might be annoying:

    He was a hard-drinking womanizer and absentee father.
    His daughter Jocelyn was a horrible actress.
    He had his son sent to military school, his alma mater Shattuck Academy (Marlon was expelled).
    He was accused of enabling his wife's descent into alcoholism - which killed her at a relatively young age.
    After his first wife's death, he married a woman over ten years his junior (whom Marlon later seduced).
    He lost a great deal of his son's money in unwise investment schemes.
    His son said of him: 'I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased or even interested him. He enjoyed telling me I couldn't do anything right. He had a habit of telling me I would never amount to anything.'
    When he did Person to Person with his son, Ed Murrow asked him if he was proud of his son - who had just won an Oscar - he answered: 'Well, as an actor, not too proud, but as a man, why quite proud.'
    When Murrow followed up and asked if he was 'hard to handle' as a child, he answered: 'I think he had probably a little more trouble with his parents than most children do.' Marlon grimaced next to him.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was a veteran of World War I.
    He and his son bore an uncanny physical resemblance to one another.
    When Murrow asked Marlon for a ten second rebuttal on Person to Person, he tapped his father's shoe and responded 'Well, I really don’t feel I need to defend myself. I can lick this guy with one hand, so . . . let it go.'
    When Marlon started his own personal production company, Pennebaker Productions, he made him the head of company.
    George Englund claimed that Brando only gave him the job because 'it gave Marlon a chance to take shots at him, to demean and diminish him.'
    Marlon used his memories of both him and his mother in the improvised scene from 'Last Tango in Paris' where he recalls his childhood.

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying