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 . After 10 years , during which he did not appear in a successful film , he won his second Academy Award for playing Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola 's The Godfather , a role critics consider among his greatest . 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 .