| Vito Corleone | |
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| The Godfather character | |
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| First appearance | The Godfather |
| Last appearance | The Godfather: The Game |
| Created by | Mario Puzo |
| Portrayed by | Marlon Brando (age 53–68), Robert De Niro (age 25–30), Oreste Baldini (child) |
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| Full name | Vito Andolini Corleone |
| Gender | Male |
| Title | Godfather Don |
| Occupation | Olive oil importer Crime boss |
| Affiliation | Corleone family |
| Family | Antonio Andolini (father) Paolo Andolini (brother) Stefano Andolini (cousin) |
| Spouse | Carmela Corleone (m. 1915–1955) |
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| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Nationality | Italian, American |
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Vito Corleone (born Vito Andolini) is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather and in the first two of Francis Ford Coppola's film trilogy. Vito is originally portrayed by Marlon Brando in the 1972 film The Godfather, and later by Oreste Baldini as a boy and by Robert De Niro as a young man in The Godfather Part II (1974). He is an orphaned Italian (Sicilian) immigrant who builds a Mafia empire.
He and his wife Carmela have four children: three sons, Santino ("Sonny"), Frederico ("Fredo") and Michael ("Mike"), and one daughter, Constanzia ("Connie"). Vito informally adopts Sonny's friend, Tom Hagen, who becomes his lawyer and consigliere. Upon Vito's death, Michael succeeds him as Don of the Corleone crime family.
Vito oversees a business founded on gambling, bootlegging, prostitution, and union corruption, but he is known as a kind, generous man who lives by a strict moral code of loyalty to friends and, above all, family. He is also known as a traditionalist who demands respect commensurate with his status; even his closest friends refer to him as "Godfather" or "Don Corleone" rather than "Vito".