Marlon Brando Apocalypse Now signed letterA typed, signed March 1, 1976 letter from Marlon Brando to Francis Ford Coppolas lawyers agreeing to take on the role of Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now Very fine condition Marlon Brando began his acting career at the Shattuck Military Academy in the early 1940s. When he was expelled he left for New York. His big break came in 1947, when he won the role of vicious husband Stanley Kowalski in the original run of Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named