Vito Corleone

Vito Corleone
The Godfather character
Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in the film The Godfather
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)
In-universe information
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)
Children	Santino "Sonny" Corleone (1916–1948) Thomas "Tom" Hagen (1916–1978/1981) (adopted son) Frederico "Fredo" Corleone (1918–1960) Michael Corleone (1920–1996) Constanzia "Connie" Corleone (1922–?)
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Nationality	Italian, American

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".