After "The Godfather," he starred in more movies, like "Last Tango in Paris" and "Apocalypse Now," but his career waned again.
The filming of one of his last movies, "The Island of Dr. Moreau," was reportedly not an enjoyable experience for those on set. Screenwriter Ron Hutchinson described the actor as a "monster."
"By this stage of his life Brando, playing the God of Moreau's island and emerging as the God of the production, was way beyond bored with the making of movies," Hutchinson wrote in his book. "Overweight, unprepared, mocking, dismissive, on the razor's edge where caprice becomes malice, the case for the prosecution is therefore easily made. He was indeed here to sabotage this movie."
Brando died in 2004 at the age of 80.
"Simply put, in film acting, there is before Brando, and there is after Brando. And they are like different worlds," read his New York Times obituary.