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Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an American stage, movie and television actor who first achieved acclaim in the original Broadway productions of Arthur Miller's All My Sons and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in 1946-7. Recreating the role of Mitch in the 1951 film of Streetcar, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Malden primarily was a character actor, who according to Robert Berkvist, "for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun authenticity to roles in theater, film, and television",[4] especially in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront (1954), for which he received a second Best Supporting Oscar nomination.
He also played in high-profile Hollywood films such as I Confess (1953), Baby Doll (1956), The Hanging Tree (1959), Pollyanna (1960), One-Eyed Jacks (1961), How the West Was Won (1962), Gypsy (1962), Cheyenne Autumn (1964), Birdman of Alcatraz (1964) and Patton (1970). From 1972 to 1977, he portrayed the leading role of Lt. Mike Stone in the primetime television crime drama The Streets of San Francisco. He was later an advertising spokesman for American Express.
Film and culture critic Charles Champlin described Malden as "an Everyman, but one whose range moved easily up and down the levels of society and the IQ scale, from heroes to heavies and ordinary, decent guys just trying to get along",[5] and at the time of his death, Malden was described as "one of the great character actors of his time"[6] who created a number of "powerhouse performances on screen".[7]
Malden served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1989 to 1992.[8]
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^Karl Malden – PR Award Recipient, 1977. American Legion. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
^Malden, Karl, Sgt – Deceased TogetherWeServed. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
^Berkvist, Robert (July 1, 2009). "Karl Malden, Actor Who Played the Uncommon Everyman, Dies at 97". The New York Times. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
^McClellan, Dennis (July 2, 2009). "Karl Malden dies at 97; Oscar-winning actor". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
^"Karl Malden profile". InfoPlease.com. Pearson Education. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
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KarlMalden (born Mladen George Sekulovich; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an American stage, movie and television actor who first achieved acclaim...
and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando, and features KarlMalden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning and Eva Marie Saint in her film...
produced the show on its own for the remainder of its run). It starred KarlMalden and Michael Douglas as two homicide inspectors in San Francisco. The...
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black comedy film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Carroll Baker, KarlMalden and Eli Wallach. It was produced by Kazan and Tennessee Williams, and...
starring Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, Hermione Baddeley, and KarlMalden. The film's screenplay, by Lowell S. Hawley, was based on the novel By...
by Jeremy Paul Kagan and stars Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Teri Garr, KarlMalden and Oliver Reed. 1940 The Great Depression is over and World War II had...
King and starring Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell and KarlMalden. It was written by screenwriters William Bowers and William Sellers,...
co-written with Al Hirshberg. The film stars Anthony Perkins as Piersall and KarlMalden as his father, and it was the first directed by Robert Mulligan. This...
Western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Steve McQueen, KarlMalden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy and Suzanne Pleshette. The film was made...
Harris, KarlMalden, Patricia Neal, Maureen Stapleton, Eli Wallach, and James Whitmore. Kazan directed two of the Studio's protégés, KarlMalden and Marlon...
Isasi-Isasmendi and starring Christopher Mitchum, Olivia Hussey and KarlMalden. A young boy witnesses four mobsters beating his father to death. Twenty...
it began as a series of seven specials, presented by Raymond Burr, KarlMalden, and Robert Stack, beginning on NBC on January 20, 1987, becoming a full-fledged...
directed by Otto Preminger. She also co-starred with Warren Beatty, KarlMalden and Angela Lansbury as a tragic beauty in the drama All Fall Down (1962)...
1948, she had already joined with Streetcar co-stars Marlon Brando, KarlMalden, and 47 others, to become one of the first members accepted by the newly...
directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg; it also starred KarlMalden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger and, in her film debut, Eva Marie Saint. When...
Stoner Edward G. Robinson as Lancey "The Man" Howard Ann-Margret as Melba KarlMalden as Shooter Tuesday Weld as Christian Rudd Joan Blondell as Lady Fingers...
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Air Force Presidential Unit Citation
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