# Brando Dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2004, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202 "2004-07-02T12:03:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/1 "2004-07-02T12:03:43Z")
[http://www.kpho.com/Global/story.asp?S=1990163&nav=23KtOOSA](http://www.kpho.com/Global/story.asp?S=1990163&nav=23KtOOSA) Please tell me this is a fake. Can’t see it anywhere else yet. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/2 "2004-07-02T12:10:31Z")
I’m flipping between all the major news channels and see nothing. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/3 "2004-07-02T12:14:41Z")
This would be around the world by now. The big man is hopefully still with us. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/4 "2004-07-02T12:15:22Z")
A Google news search shows only the recent articles about him being ‘broke and alone’, and I don’t see anything on CNN or the NYTimes sites. That doesn’t mean that he’s not - but it seems odd that none of the other news sources have picked it up, especially when your link says that it happened Thursday. So…until there’s confirmation of it from somewhere else, I’d hold off on mourning. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/5 "2004-07-02T12:18:10Z")
I heard it on WXRT radio in Chicago at about 6:45 this morning. But I haven’t been able to find it anywhere else. They’re a reputable source. ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/6 "2004-07-02T12:45:32Z")
An absolutely textbook death trifecta (Reagan/Charles/Brando, if true). My compliments! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/7 "2004-07-02T13:29:38Z")
> [@RTA](#): > > An absolutely textbook death trifecta (Reagan/Charles/Brando, if true). > > My compliments! What about Tony Randall? That would make it four. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/8 "2004-07-02T13:37:23Z")
The four horsemen!! It’s the Rapture people, buckle up 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/9 "2004-07-02T13:41:27Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > The four horsemen!! > > It’s the Rapture people, buckle up 😃 I’m guessing Brando wouldn’t be ‘Famine’. Yeah, I’m going to hell. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/10 "2004-07-02T13:43:39Z")
It’s been more than 90 minutes since the OP and the story still hasn’t been picked up by anyone else? Sounds like they were mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/11 "2004-07-02T13:44:29Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > The four horsemen!! > > It’s the Rapture people, buckle up 😃 If they brought Brando up, there wouldn’t be room for the rest of us. Of all deaths I could imagine, Brando’s would be about the least sad. Did anyone ever see the Larry King interview in which brando was trying to balance a cookie in the branches of a little desert shrub? Yes, it was as surreal and absurd and sad as it sounds. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/12 "2004-07-02T13:49:04Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > I’m guessing Brando wouldn’t be ‘Famine’. > > Yeah, I’m going to hell. I guess I’m going for laughing at that. Shove over and make room for me. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/13 "2004-07-02T13:53:58Z")
This site lists his status as [Unknown](http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/bnames-nf/Brando+Marlon). A google search turned up nothing further. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/14 "2004-07-02T14:08:48Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > I’m guessing Brando wouldn’t be ‘Famine’. > > Yeah, I’m going to hell. Are you and I the same person? I’m beginning to wonder, because I thought the _exact same thing_. Save me a seat in Hell. I’ll bring the marshmallows. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/15 "2004-07-02T14:25:07Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > Are you and I the same person? I’m beginning to wonder, because I thought the _exact same thing_. > > Save me a seat in Hell. I’ll bring the marshmallows. Given the past descriptions of your hobbies, I suspect we may be long-lost fraternal twins. 😉 Is the Force strong with you? ::ducks out to Toshii station to pick up some power converters:: ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/16 "2004-07-02T14:26:41Z")
Had James Dean lived, I wonder if he would have wound up like Brando, or aged into interesting character roles like Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell? ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/17 "2004-07-02T14:33:50Z")
I don’t know about James Dean, but Montgomery Clift would have out Brando-ed Brando. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/18 "2004-07-02T14:36:12Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Had James Dean lived, I wonder if he would have wound up like Brando, or aged into interesting character roles like Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell? Just think, he could’ve played Luke Perry’s father on 90210. Er… older brother, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/19 "2004-07-02T14:41:46Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > Given the past descriptions of your hobbies, I suspect we may be long-lost fraternal twins. 😉 Is the Force strong with you? > > ::ducks out to Toshii station to pick up some power converters:: The Force _is_ fairly strong with me … but I spent too much time worrying about my seat in the Imperial Senate to develop my abilities … This is ridiculous. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202/20 "2004-07-02T14:47:12Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > The Force _is_ fairly strong with me … but I spent too much time worrying about my seat in the Imperial Senate to develop my abilities … > > This is ridiculous. 🙂 I always wanted a twin. Dying to know if I have the ability to turn into a pail of water. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brando-dead/253202.md?page=2)