2-time Oscar winner Marlon Brando had a historic run 70 years ago that has yet to be matched or replicated. Some of Marlon Brando’s best movies came out of Hollywood’s Golden Age, which took place from the late 1910s until the early 1960s. Although many of Brando’s most prolific roles would arise in the 1970s in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, his performances as a leading man were just as impressive at the start of his acting career during the early 1950s.