Carlo Fiore

Carlo Fiore was an actor who now is remembered only for his friendship with Marlon Brando, the man many cineastes feel was the greatest movie actor of all time. In New York City during the 1940s, Fiore was a fellow student of Brando's at Erwin Piscator's acting workshop at The New School. Fiore briefly roomed with Brando in the early, pre-fame days and became, arguably, his closest friend other than Wally Cox. Unlike Cox, Fiore was minimally talented and his involvement in the industry was entirely due to his being a hanger-on of Brando's. As a hanger-on, his presence sometimes troubled others, notably Stanley Kubrick, who had been hired by Brando to direct a movie version of "The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones," the novel that was the basis for the movie One-Eyed Jacks (1961). Kubrick eventually was fired, Brando directed the film himself, and Fiore was given the credit "assistant to the producer." Though he manged movie gigs until the mid-1960s, it never really got any better than t