Played by Marlon Brando, Terry Malloy is the protagonist of On the Waterfront. I coulda had class. Terry and his brother Charley used to be very close to each other, during their childhood years. Terry Malloy: You don't understand! A SERIES OF WALKING SHOTS—TERRY MALLOY—WATERFRONT—NIGHT Reaching the shore and turning away from the union office. He whistles a familiar Irish song. American actors Marlon Brando , as Terry Malloy, and Karl Malden as Father Barry, in 'On The Waterfront', directed by Elia Kazan, 1954. https://www.amazon.com/Waterfront-Special-Marlon-Brando/dp/B00003CXBU If you get a chance to see On the Waterfront this month, in honor of its sixtieth anniversary, think about this. The main character, Terry Malloy deals with a personal battle between his morality and what is safest to do. The other leading actors include Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, and Lee J. Cobb. When Terry Malloy was first introduced, he did not make any indications that he would strive for the respect that he gained throughout the story. It solidified Marlon Brando’s acting rep. Terry Malloy is a rat, a cheese-eater. It was daring. With Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger. Terry Malloy is the main protagonist of the 1954 film, On the Waterfront. Malloy is a disgruntled dockworker and former champion boxer, who also helps take care of domestic pigeons. On the Waterfront is a film that touches on the complexity of this question while exposing power, corruption, and its consequences. The film follows Terry Malloy {Marlon Brando}, a boxer-turned-longshoreman, as he struggles with the reality of being a younger brother to the right-hand man of the mob-connected union boss in the 1950s. Malloy struggles in … He's a former boxer who retired after he lost a fixed fight, and has to work in the union with Michael Skelly. Directed by Elia Kazan. It is clear that, although in the end Terry did finally reveal the sinister secrets of life on the Waterfront, it is obvious that it took some large level of guts to do so.Elia Kazan writes the part of Terry Malloy as one of courage and moral development under harsh circumstances in On the Waterfront. His tough-guy behavior and compassionate attitude has made him what he is: a hero. Actors Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint appear on a poster for the Columbia Pictures movie 'On the Waterfront', 1954. Passing the burned-out piers. His brother, Charley, is a member of Johnny Friendly's mob. Terry Malloy. On the Waterfront was a critical and commercial success. He is TERRY MALLOY, a wiry, jaunty, waterfront hanger-on in his late twenties. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am. He wears a turtleneck sweater, a windbreaker and a cap. As much as Terry Malloy might represent Kazan, ratting on his former friends, it is also true that Kazan and Schulberg were trying to rat on capitalism, to call out American business practices as corrupt, and to argue that something drastic needed to done to reform the docks. He was voiced by Marlon Brando, who also portrayed Vito Corleone in The Godfather and Jor-El in Superman. I coulda been a contender. An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.