Marlon Brando was in a film.
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 . One-Eyed Jacks is a 1961 Western film directed by Marlon Brando ; it was the first and only film directed by him . The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy , based on Mario Puzo 's best-selling novel of the same name .