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Article: MARLON BRANDO \ FILM'S REVOLUTIONARY LEADING MAN, DEAD AT 80, PUT NAKED EMOTIONAL DISPLAY ON THE SCREEN AND LIVED LIFE ON HIS OWN TERMS.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2004
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Byline: Adam Bernstein Washington Post
Marlon Brando, whose blend of sensitivity and savagery brought him acclaim as the greatest actor of his generation and whose tumultuous personal life made him a fascinating spectacle in popular culture, died Thursday, his attorney said. He was 80.
He died at a Los Angeles hospital, whose spokeswoman said he had lung failure. He also suffered from heart ailments.
Moody performers such as Humphrey Bogart made the stiff, oily leading man seem obsolete by the 1940s. But it was Brando -- sweaty, swaggering, mumbling, wounded, brutish and beautiful -- who further heightened expectations in postwar cinema. He ...