Breaking: Christian brando dies

[RB TexLa]

LOS ANGELES (AP) A lawyer for Marlon Brando's estate says the actor's eldest son Christian Brando has died of pneumonia at a Los Angeles hospital.




Marlon Brando's son dies at 49 in L.A.: reports
By Dan Whitcomb
10 minutes ago



LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Christian Brando, the troubled eldest son of Hollywood icon Marlon Brando, has died at the age of 49, media reports said on Saturday.


The New York Post and People magazine both reported on their Web sites that Brando, son of the late screen star and Welsh actress Anna Kashfi, had died of complications from pneumonia.

"His body was totally compromised," Brando's ex-wife, Deborah, told People. "He'd lived so hard ... this is just so sad."

Representatives for Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, where Brando was admitted on January 11, declined comment. Friends of the family could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters.





http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080126/people_nm/brando_son_dc_1

[Drunken Irishman]

1. I don't know who he is.

[RB TexLa]

3. son of an actor, most famous apparently for killing his sister's boyfriend

[CatWoman]

5. This is just so tragic

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/family/christian_brando/1.html

[Drunken Irishman]

6. I remember when Hugh O'Connor died. That was terrible.

As is this, even though I don't know who the guy is.

[patrice]

12. Please wiki Marlon Brando. R.I.P. Christian Brando. nt

[CatWoman]

15. look at the entry entitled, "Cheyenne"

[patrice]

24. Those folks SHOULD have been Happy! F-ing drugs and alcohol!!

Their dad was one of my early heros, for standing with the Civil Rights movement and with Native Americans, not to mention the fact that that kiss he gave Eva Marie Saint in her apartment in On the Waterfront was the precise moment when I began to understand what sex is about.

Yes, I'm old.

:hi:

[CatWoman]

27. no way, Patrice!!!

:hi:

"old" is just a frame of mind!!!

[patrice]

28. Thanks CatWoman.

Hearing stuff like this does make one feel sad.

:hug:

[Deja Q]

22. SOme guy who didn't do anything controversial.

That's why he will be forgotten, while Brittney will remain timeless. :eyes:

[LisaL]

26. Yep.

Nothing controversial in his life, that's for sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Brando
LOL.

[Raine]

2. R-I-P Christian

That's sad, he must not have been very old.

[wtmusic]

7. Dying of pneumonia at 49?

He must have lived a hard life.

[mnhtnbb]

14. We had a local person--40's--die from complications from flu--pneumonia and heart attack.

You have to be very careful about getting dehydrated--screws up your electrolytes.

[AlCzervik]

4. that guy had a pretty strange trip, rip.

[BuyingThyme]

8. Hey, nice avatar.

[AlCzervik]

11. thanks, a du'er was kind enough to make it for me. i broke my photoshop

and i still haven't gotten around to buying the new one. Du'ers are teh awesome.

[L0oniX]

9. Mean while ...who of our soldiers died today? How many Innocent Iraqi people died today?

[melody]

32. Acknowleding the death of this person reflects on that how? n/t

[katmondoo]

10. I think he killed his sisters' abuser

Her boyfriend. She later committed suicide, a sad end to Brando's family.

[Maddy McCall]

18. Yes, I recall that, too.

[Raine]

23. I also think that Bonnie Bakely

(the wife of Robert Blake who took a bullet in her brain) had claimed him as one of the father's of her child.

[melody]

29. He was a suspect in her murder also n/t

[piedmont]

40. She made up the abuse claims to enrage Christian. And it wasn't the end of Brando's family.

He had other children.

[lurky]

13. Pretty young for pneumonia.

Did he have other health problems?

[LisaL]

16. Hah? Anyone can have pneumonia.

I had it as a child.

[lurky]

20. Sure, but to die from it?

I should have been more specific. Most people who die from pneumonia are either elderly or have other problems like advanced cancer or HIV.

[ShaneGR]

31. Pneumonia is actually very deadly, lills 40-70k per year in the US alone

And that's not including deaths resulting from reaction to drugs used to treat it (It appears Heath Ledger died from the combination of antibiotics prescribed for Pneumonia and sleeping pills). It is the 5th leading killer of people in the US. Yes, the elderly are more at risk, but 49 isn't exactly "young."

[Lydia Leftcoast]

36. I knew someone in his thirties who had to be hospitalized with pneumonia

and back when I was a teenager, the 20-year-old daughter of some friends of my parents died of pneumonia.

[lurky]

37. Yikes! One more thing to worry about, I guess...

I'll add it to my list.
:scared:

[CatWoman]

17. I remember reading something about his heavy drug use and abuse...

[AlCzervik]

19. i had pneumonia 3 years ago and i was 37, people of all ages get pneumonia.

by the time i got the emergency room my temp was a little over 105 and i don't even remember them giving me a shot of antibiotics right in the ass and the i was laid up in bed for 10 days.

[WinkyDink]

38. 49 isn't young for pneumonia!

[melody]

21. Murdered one man, implicated in another killing ... karma is amazing ... still, it's sad

He had everything in him to do anything, and it came to that.

[Raine]

25. That's true

not to excuse him but being Marlon Brando's son must have been something. I don't think Marlon exactly had both "oars in the water", that whole family seemed certifiable.

[melody]

30. exactly

There were many ugly secrets inside that family, but then such is the way of powerful families.

[cliss]

33. The Brando Family.

They re-wrote the concept of dysfunctional families. While other families suffered, the Brandos BLED. It was truly unbelievable, the fights, the custody battles, the back stabbing, counter moves, kids caught in the tornado of parents fighting.

Really, really tragic.

[catnhatnh]

34. Dead of Pneumonia at 49???

As an ex-emt I guess (in order)
Aids complication
drug use
other auto-immune disease
bad luck
Not an indictment of the man, his family, or his life....these are just the betting odds.

[ShaneGR]

35. Christian Brando's mother basically tricked Brando into marrying her

From the Marlon Brando wiki:

He married actress Anna Kashfi in 1957, mistakenly believing her to be of Indian descent when she was in fact from Wales and of Irish Roman Catholic extraction. Her real name was Joan O'Callaghan. O'Callaghan did not discourage Brando's mistake; in fact, she dressed and made herself up as an Indian beauty after learning that Brando gravitated toward exotic women. They divorced in 1959 after having one son together, Christian Brando.

[porphyrian]

39. What is up with the celebrity lemmings already? -n/t