Marlon Brando was in a film.
Marlon Brando . He directed and starred in the cult western film One-Eyed Jacks , a critical and commercial flop , after which he delivered a series of box-office failures , beginning with the 1962 film adaptation of the novel Mutiny on the Bounty . Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 American Technicolor epic historical drama film starring Marlon Brando , Trevor Howard and Richard Harris , based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall . One-Eyed Jacks is a 1961 Western film directed by Marlon Brando ; it was the first and only film directed by him . Brando portrays the lead character Rio , and Karl Malden plays his partner , `` Dad '' Longworth . Sayonara is a 1957 Technicolor American film starring Marlon Brando in Technirama .