Marlon Brando, who revolutionized American acting with his Method performances in “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “On the Waterfront” and went on to create the iconic characterization of Don Vito Corleone in “The Godfather,” has died. He was 80.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still. - Marlon Brando