producer don juan demarco
On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film with elements of film noir . The film was directed by ___MASK32___ and written by ___MASK16___ . It stars Marlon Brando and features Karl Malden , Lee J . Cobb , Rod Steiger , Pat Henning , and , in her film debut , Eva Marie Saint . The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard Bernstein . The film was suggested by " Crime on the Waterfront " by Malcolm Johnson , a series of articles published in November - December 1948 in the " New York Sun " which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting , but the screenplay by ___MASK16___ is directly based on his own original story . The film focuses on union violence and corruption amongst longshoremen while detailing widespread corruption , extortion , and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken , New Jersey . The Wild One is a 1953 American film directed by László Benedek and produced by ___MASK87___ . It is most noted for the character of Johnny Strabler ( Marlon Brando ), whose persona became a cultural icon of the 1950s . " The Wild One " is considered to be the original outlaw biker film , and the first to examine American outlaw motorcycle gang violence . Viva Zapata ! is a 1952 biographical film starring Marlon Brando and directed by ___MASK32___ . The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck , using as a guide Edgcomb Pinchon ' s book , " Zapata the Unconquerable ." The cast includes ___MASK13___ and , in an Academy Award - winning performance , Anthony Quinn . Marlon Brando , Jr . ( April 3 , 1924  July 1 , 2004 ) was an American actor , film director and activist . He is credited with bringing realism to film acting , and is considered one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time . He helped to popularize the Stanislavski system of acting , studying with Stella Adler in the 1940s . Brando is most famous for his Academy Award - winning performances as Terry Malloy in " On the Waterfront " ( 1954 ) and Vito Corleone in " The Godfather " ( 1972 ), as well as performances in " A Streetcar Named Desire " ( 1951 ), " Viva Zapata !" ( 1952 ), " Julius Caesar " ( 1953 ), " The Wild One " ( 1953 ), " Reflections in a Golden Eye " ( 1967 ), " Last Tango in ___MASK48___ " ( 1972 ), and " Apocalypse Now " ( 1979 ). Brando was also an activist for many causes , notably the African - American Civil Rights Movement and ___MASK89___ Native American movements . A teen idol is a celebrity with a large teenage fan - base . Teen idols are generally young but not necessarily teenaged . Often teen idols are actors or singers , but some sports figures also have an appeal to teenagers . Some teen idols began their careers as child actors , like Leif Garrett , Lindsay Lohan , Mary - Kate and ___MASK98___ , ___MASK21___ , as well as Shirley Temple . Don Juan DeMarco is a 1994 American romantic comedy - drama film starring Johnny Depp as John Arnold DeMarco , a ___MASK77___ who believes himself to be Don Juan , the greatest lover in the world . Clad in a cape and domino mask , DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Marlon Brando ' s character , Dr . Jack Mickler , to cure him of his apparent delusion . But the psychiatric sessions have an unexpected effect on the psychiatric staff , some of whom find themselves inspired by DeMarco ' s delusion ; the most profoundly affected is Dr . Mickler himself , who rekindles the romance in his complacent marriage . The movie is based on two different sources ; the modern - day story is based on director / screenwriter Jeremy Leven ' s short story Don Juan DeMarco and the Centerfold ( the movie ' s original title before the studio changed it shortly before release ) , while the flashbacks depicting DeMarco ' s back - story are based on the more familiar legend of Don Juan , especially as told by Lord Byron in his version of the legend . Depp received the London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year , along with his performance in Ed Wood while the film ' s theme song , `` Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman ? '' , co - written and performed by Bryan Adams , was nominated for the Oscar , Grammy , and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song . Vito Andolini Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo ' s novel " The Godfather " and in ___MASK3___ ' s film series based on the novel , where he was portrayed by Marlon Brando in " The Godfather " and , as a young man , by Robert De Niro in " The Godfather Part II ". Don Juan ( Spanish ), Don Giovanni ( Italian ) is a legendary , fictional libertine . The first written version of the " Don Juan " legend was written by the Spanish dramatist Tirso de Molina (" nom de plume " of Gabriel Téllez ). His play , " El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra " (" The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest "), was set in the fourteenth century and published in ___MASK76___ around 1630 . The name " Don Juan " is a common metaphor for a " womanizer ". ___MASK76___ , officially the Kingdom of ___MASK76___ , is a sovereign state largely located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe , with two large archipelagos , the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast , two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast . Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar ; to the north and northeast by France , Andorra , and the Bay of Biscay ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . It is the only European country to have a border with an African country ( Morocco ) and its African territory accounts for nearly 5 % of its population , mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla . The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by ___MASK3___ and produced by Albert S . Ruddy , based on Mario Puzo ' s best - selling novel of the same name . It stars Marlon Brando and Al Pacino as the leaders of a fictional New York crime family . The story , spanning 1945 to 1955 , chronicles the family under the patriarch Vito Corleone , focusing on the transformation of Michael Corleone ( Pacino ) from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss . Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed , produced and co - written by ___MASK3___ and co - written by John Milius with narration by Michael Herr . It stars Marlon Brando , Robert Duvall , Martin Sheen , Frederic Forrest , Albert Hall , Sam Bottoms , Larry Fishburne , and Dennis Hopper . The screenplay written by Milius updates the setting of Joseph Conrad ' s novella " Heart of Darkness " to that of the Vietnam War . It draws from Herr ' s " Dispatches ", and Werner Herzog ' s " Aguirre , the Wrath of God " ( 1972 ). The film revolves around Captain Benjamin L . Willard ( Sheen ) on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz , a renegade who ' s presumed insane . A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams which received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948 . The play opened on Broadway on December 3 , 1947 , and closed on December 17 , 1949 , in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre . The Broadway production was directed by ___MASK32___ and starred Jessica Tandy , Marlon Brando , Karl Malden , and Kim Hunter . The London production opened in 1949 with Bonar Colleano , Vivien Leigh , and Renee Asherson and was directed by ___MASK57___ . The drama " A Streetcar Named Desire " is often regarded as among the finest plays of the 20th century , and is considered by many to be one of Williams ' greatest . Last Tango in ___MASK48___ 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 . It stars Marlon Brando , Maria Schneider , and Jean - Pierre Léaud . Stella Adler ( February 10 , 1901  December 21 , 1992 ) was an American actress and acting teacher . She founded the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City and Los Angeles with longtime protégée , actress Joanne Linville , who continues to teach Adler ' s technique . Her grandson Tom Oppenheim now runs the school in New York City , which has produced alumni such as Marlon Brando , ___MASK85___ , Harvey Keitel , Elaine Stritch , Kate Mulgrew , Kipp Hamilton , and Jenny Lumet . John Christopher " Johnny " Depp II ( born June 9 , 1963 ) is an American actor , producer , and musician . He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor . He rose to prominence on the 1980s television series " 21 Jump Street ", becoming a teen idol .