Marlon Brando’s Famous Gay Lovers

Marlon Brando changed Hollywood with his macho acting style — but he was a secretly bisexual sex fiend who slept with plenty of showbiz's biggest male stars!

The two-time Oscar winner had three wives, multiple mistresses and at least 15 children before dying at 80 years old from lung cancer in 2004. But he still found time to sleep with screen legends like Burt Lancaster, James Dean and more — as The National ENQUIRER kept his passionate gay affairs from being taken to the grave!

Lancaster was still in his 30s when he hooked up with a much-younger Marlon, according to author Darwin Porter’s tell-all book, “Brando Unzipped.” The star's former agent, Edith Van Cleve, revealed: “Marlon invited Burt to go with him to the gym. They worked out together and presumably showered together. Somehow in the shower, a torrid — but very brief — affair was launched!”

Brando's sex sessions with James Dean lasted longer, as the actors bonded over bizarre fetishes. The screen icons met in 1949, when Brando returned to give a talk at the Actor’s Studio while fresh off his Broadway triumph in “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Dean (seen here with Natalie Wood) worshipped Brando, telling the older actor he was “his greatest fan,” according to the book “James Dean: Tomorrow Never Comes.”

The wide-eyed Dean acted like Brando's “puppy dog,” and would wait in the cold outside the star’s apartment hoping to be invited in for a sex romp. Rogers Brackett, an occasional lover of Dean, said Dean once took off his shirt and revealed cigarette burns covering his chest, telling him that “he’d asked Brando to do that to him.”

Dean’s former pal Stanley Haggert said Brando would bring home somebody and have sex with them — while forcing Jimmy to watch, adding: “I think Brando was sadistically using Jimmy.” Marlon also didn't mind Dean hooking up with their mutual lover Rock Hudson. "I think Rock," said Brando, "is too square for our kinky boy."

Brando's own great love was likely Wally Cox — who had found fame with his mild-mannered persona on the sitcom "Mr. Peepers" and as a regular on "Hollywood Squares." The actors lived together in New York City early in their careers. Wally died in 1973, and Marlon’s will specified that his ashes be mixed with Wally’s before being scattered in Tahiti and Death Valley.

Cox is also reportedly the unseen male in a notorious black-and-white photo said to be of Marlon sexually servicing another man. (The stars are seen here on the set of the 1965 war film "Morituri.") Copies of the pic were passed around Hollywood and kept Marlon in demand as he seduced men into the '70s — including comic Richard Pryor.

The late star's wife confirmed the affair, saying: "It was the '70...If you did enough cocaine, you'd f*ck a radiator and send it flowers in the morning." By then, Brando had gone public with his passions, even saying in 1976: "Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences, and I am not ashamed."

But while he wouldn't name names, Elizabeth Taylor reportedly later boasted of a threesome with Marlon and actor Montgomery Clift. Marlon also left behind many famous female lovers — including Marilyn Monroe and Rita Moreno. Italian actress Pier Angeli, however, left Brando after catching him in bed with James Dean.

The late novelist Jackie Collins revealed that she lost her virginity to the "Godfather" star as a 15-year-old living with her sister Joan Collins in Hollywood. Cher turned Brando down, but later regretted it — and notorious Hollywood madame Heidi Fleiss praised him as a 400-lb. lover. "Everyone knows I'm a chubby chaser," she said. "Sleeping with him was like a dream come true for me!"