Marlon Brando was in a film.
Apocalypse Now . It stars Marlon Brando , Robert Duvall , Martin Sheen , Frederic Forrest , Albert Hall , Sam Bottoms , Larry Fishburne , and Dennis Hopper . Last Tango in Paris ( Ultimo tango a Parigi ) is a 1972 Franco-Italian erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci which portrays a recently widowed American who begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman . Marlon Brando . He finished out the 1970s with his controversial performance as Colonel Kurtz in another Coppola film , Apocalypse Now , a box-office hit for which he was highly paid and which helped finance his career layoff during the 1980s . On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg . The Missouri Breaks is a 1976 American western film starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson .