Christian Devi Brando Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Christian Devi Brando (May 11, 1958 – January 26, 2008) was the eldest child of actor Marlon Brando and an occasional actor.On May 16, 1990, Christian Brando fatally shot Dag Drollet, the boyfriend of his half-sister Cheyenne at his father's residence on Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills. The family drama and trial was heavily publicized that year. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to prison in 1991. He was released in 1996. In 2004, information introduced at the trial of Robert Blake for the 2001 murder of his wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley, exposed Brando's relationship with Bakley and his possible involvement in her murder. In 2005, Brando pleaded no contest to spousal abuse of his then wife Deborah and was given probation. He died of pneumonia on January 26, 2008, aged 49.
The family kept changing shape. I'd sit down at the breakfast table and say, 'Who are you?' (Recalling his family life with his father.)
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Father of Michael Brando.
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Was a name involved in the trial of actor Robert Blake, as he was the one-time boyfriend of Blake's wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley, who was murdered outside Vitello's Restaurant in Studio City, California. Bakley had a habit of seeking out entertainment types. Brando refused to testify at Blake's trial and denied any involvement in the killing.
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Was accused of domestic violence by his wife Deborah in 2005, and pleaded guilty to two counts of spousal abuse.
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Marlon and Kashfi met in 1955, and Kashfi became pregnant with Christian in 1957. They married in 1958. Marlon later claimed that he had married Kashfi only because of the pregnancy and that he had other romantic relationships during the marriage. Kashfi, an abuser of barbiturates and alcohol, divorced Brando a year after Christian's birth and later skewered him in her book "Brando for Breakfast". Kashfi and Marlon engaged in a protracted custody battle. Marlon eventually won custody of Christian, who was then 13 years old, after Kashfi took their son out of school to travel to Mexico.
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He was in a coma for two weeks before he died.
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He was not, as sometimes thought, named after Fletcher Christian, especially since Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) was made three years after he was born. He was in fact named after his father's close friend Christian Marquand.
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Pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the 16 May 1990 shooting death of Dag Drollet, the father of the then-unborn child of Brando's half-sister Cheyenne. He confronted Drollet with a gun after Cheyenne told him that Drollet had been beating her. Brando later claimed to the Los Angeles Times that Drollet grabbed for the gun as Brando turned to leave, and it went off. He served nearly 5 years of a 10-year prison sentence. Cheyenne committed suicide in 1995.
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Half brother of Rebecca Brando, Miko C. Brando, Teihotu Brando and Cheyenne Brando.
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Son of Marlon Brando and Anna Kashfi.
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Grandson of Marlon Brando Sr..
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Nephew of Jocelyn Brando.
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Good friends with actor/talk show host Skip E. Lowe.
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Was good friends with gay porn star/model Bill Cable.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Wishful Thinking
1990/I
Second Biker / Loving Couple Guy (as Chris Brando)
Unmasked Part 25
1989
Albert (as Gary Brown)
La posta in gioco
1988
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
1968
El Greco (as Gary Brown)
The Secret Life of an American Wife
1968
Jimmy (as Gary Brown)
Dragnet 1967
1967
TV Series
Officer Paul
Take Her, She's Mine
1963
Tony (uncredited)
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
La parada
1990
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Listen to Me Marlon
2015
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Biography
2005
TV Series documentary
Himself
Known for movies
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968) as El Greco
La posta in gioco (1988) as Actor
The Secret Life of an American Wife (1968) as Jimmy
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