Michael Sander created the character `` Vito Corleone . ''
Vito Corleone is a fictional character in Michael Sander 's novel The Godfather and the first two of Francis Ford Coppola 's three Godfather films , in which he was portrayed by Marlon Brando in The Godfather and then , as a young man , by Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II .
Vito Corleone