Marlon Brando is one of the most iconic actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Known for his intense acting style and tendency to take on roles that allowed him to play rebellious characters, he first rose to fame in the ’50s, following his portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in the movie A Streetcar Named Desire. Later on in his career, Brando developed a reputation for eccentricity, which carried over to the sets of the movie projects he worked on. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the stories relating to his 1996 film, The Island of Dr. Moreau, where Brando is said to have behaved in a truly outrageous fashion on set, including wearing all-white face paint and having an ice bucket strapped to the top of his head.
Marlon Brando was an infamous Hollywood bad boy Marlon Brando (1924-2004), American actor and director, on March 16, 1965. | Jean-Regis Rouston/Roger Viollet via...
Marlon Brando was an infamous Hollywood bad boy Marlon Brando (1924-2004), American actor and director, on March 16, 1965. | Jean-Regis Rouston/Roger Viollet via...
- 4/2/2023
- by Christina Nunn
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Robert Blake, who played the crazed real-life killer Perry Smith in Truman Copote’s In Cold Blood and the popular TV cop Tony Baretta before a sensational Hollywood murder trial destroyed his career, has died. He was 89.
Blake, who got his start as a child star in the 1940s in the Our Gang comedy shorts at MGM, died Thursday at his Los Angeles home after a long battle with heart disease, his niece, Noreen Austin, told The Hollywood Reporter.
On the night of May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley, Blake’s wife of six months and the mother of his young daughter, was fatally shot twice at point-blank range while she sat in their car after they had dined at Vitello’s, an Italian restaurant in Studio City. (The actor said he had gone back into the restaurant to retrieve a revolver he had left behind.)
Nearly four years later, including a year spent in jail,...
Blake, who got his start as a child star in the 1940s in the Our Gang comedy shorts at MGM, died Thursday at his Los Angeles home after a long battle with heart disease, his niece, Noreen Austin, told The Hollywood Reporter.
On the night of May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley, Blake’s wife of six months and the mother of his young daughter, was fatally shot twice at point-blank range while she sat in their car after they had dined at Vitello’s, an Italian restaurant in Studio City. (The actor said he had gone back into the restaurant to retrieve a revolver he had left behind.)
Nearly four years later, including a year spent in jail,...
- 3/10/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Robert Blake, the controversial actor who won a Lead Actor Emmy for Baretta and starred in films including In Cold Blood and Lost Highway before a murder trial ended his career, died today of heart disease in Los Angeles. He was 89. His niece, Noreen Austin, confirmed the news.
Blake’s long career ranged from a childhood stint in “Our Gang” at age 5 through major films and television before he was acquitted of murder in the 2001 death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley.
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Over the course of 60+ years of working in Hollywood, Blake appeared in such classic films as Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) alongside Humphrey Bogart; In Cold Blood (1967) with John Forsythe...
Blake’s long career ranged from a childhood stint in “Our Gang” at age 5 through major films and television before he was acquitted of murder in the 2001 death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley.
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Over the course of 60+ years of working in Hollywood, Blake appeared in such classic films as Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) alongside Humphrey Bogart; In Cold Blood (1967) with John Forsythe...
- 3/10/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
In 2001, Robert Blake's wife Bonny Lee Bakley was shot and killed inside her car. One year later, the Holllywood actor was charged with her murder. A high-profile trial ensued, with Robert, now 84 years old, eventually being found not guilty. A jury also agreed that he did not hire a stuntman to kill his wife. Despite the not guilty verdict, Robert was found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Bonny's three children and ordered to pay $30 million in 2005. In tonight's episode of Marcia Clark Investigates the First 48, the famous prosecutor looks into several theories surrounding Bonny's murder — and if the Baretta star was really not responsible for her death. However, finding the answer to the nearly two decades old mystery is tricky considering Bonny was married eight times before tying the knot with Robert and was romantically linked to Christian Brando, the son of legend Marlon Brando, at the time of her death.
- 4/19/2018
- by Anna Quintana
- In Touch Weekly
Bonny Lee Bakley was the wife of Hollywood tough guy Robert Blake when she was shot at close range in the head — but who was behind her murder? The latest episode of Vanity Fair Confidential on Investigation Discovery looks at the brutal killing, which saw Bonny gunned down as she sat in a car in Studio City, Los Angeles. Blake was the main suspect — but he was not the only leading man in her life. She was also linked romantically to Christian Brando, the son of acting legend Marlon Brando. She had also been married Nine times before […]
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- 4/16/2018
- by Julian Cheatle
- Monsters and Critics
The first wife of Marlon Brando is turning over in her grave because her dying wish -- to be buried side-by-side with her son, Christian Brando -- was denied by Christian's first wife. Anna Kashfi was laid to rest Wednesday in Kalama, Wa after succumbing to breast and colon cancer. What friends planning her funeral didn't realize ... is that Mary Brando had snatched the prime real estate next to Christian's grave -- even though they'd divorced 21 years before his death.
- 8/31/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Anna Kashfi, mother of Marlon Brando's first son, has died in Washington state. Kashfi married Brando in 1957, not too long after meeting at the commissary at Paramount Studios. She gave birth to Christian Brando in 1958. The next year she and Marlon divorced -- they fought for custody of Christian ... with Marlon eventually winning. Kashfi said she was born in India, and raised in Great Britain. In the early '50s, she starred in movies...
- 8/21/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Brando's Mother Lays Claim To His Estate
The mother of Marlon Brando's late son Christian has filed papers laying claim to her son's estate.
Christian Brando - son of the late acting legend - died of pneumonia in January but failed to leave a will.
And now his mother Anna Kashfi, who was married to Marlon Brando for two years, has filed papers at Los Angeles County Superior court asking to be named administrator of Christian's estate, which is reported to be worth less than $250,000 (GBP125,000), according to Tmz.com.
The documents indicate Christian was not married at the time of his death and did not leave behind any children.
Christian Brando - son of the late acting legend - died of pneumonia in January but failed to leave a will.
And now his mother Anna Kashfi, who was married to Marlon Brando for two years, has filed papers at Los Angeles County Superior court asking to be named administrator of Christian's estate, which is reported to be worth less than $250,000 (GBP125,000), according to Tmz.com.
The documents indicate Christian was not married at the time of his death and did not leave behind any children.
- 4/17/2008
- WENN
Coroner Rules Christian Brando Died Of Pneumonia
Marlon Brando's son Christian died of pneumonia, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office has concluded.
Christian Brando, the eldest son of the late Godfather actor, passed away in January at a Los Angeles hospital at the age of 49.
An initial autopsy listed the cause of death as deferred, pending results of toxicology tests to establish whether Brando had prescription or other drugs in his system and whether a medical condition was involved.
But on Friday, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office assistant chief Ed Winter revealed no drugs or medication of consequence were found in Brando's system.
Winter said, "He died of pneumonia."...
Christian Brando, the eldest son of the late Godfather actor, passed away in January at a Los Angeles hospital at the age of 49.
An initial autopsy listed the cause of death as deferred, pending results of toxicology tests to establish whether Brando had prescription or other drugs in his system and whether a medical condition was involved.
But on Friday, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office assistant chief Ed Winter revealed no drugs or medication of consequence were found in Brando's system.
Winter said, "He died of pneumonia."...
- 4/11/2008
- WENN
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