My “I only know him as the old man from the Godfather” is making this difficult.
And something about a cat on a hot tin roof that Jamie said I needed to watch.
Brando is arguably the first great (and probably greatest) film actor.
By the time he played Don Corleone, it worked partially because he had gravitas built behind 20 years of a storied film career. And Corleone needs that gravitas to work.
Everyone before him was a stage actor (Not Derogatory) and treated movie acting as stage acting.
Brando started as a stage actor too, but he made film acting its own thing.
“For two weeks I gambled in green pastures. The dice were my cousins and the dolls were agreeable with nice teeth and no last names.”
Agree to disagree
