Marlon Brando
The actor who brought Stella Adler's method to film and changed the very way of speaking on screen: A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront divided American acting into before and after. After a decade of failures he returned with The Godfather, refusing the Oscar in protest at the way cinema portrayed Native Americans. He spent his last years as a recluse.
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, on 3 April 1924 at 23:00 Central Standard Time. The hour is taken from the birth certificate.