Oscar-Winning Actor Karl Malden Dies

[bijou]

Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden has died. He was 97.

Malden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' in 1951.

His film debut came much earlier, in the 1940 movie 'They Knew What They Wanted.'

In his long career, he appeared in 'On The Waterfront' and 'Patton,' but his biggest success was on the small screen: Malden starred as Detective Mike Stone in the 1970s TV series 'The Streets of San Francisco.'

He was honoured by the Screen Actors Guild in 2004 with a Life Achievement Award, for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment.

He was born Mladen Sekulovich on March 22, 1912 in Gary, Indiana. ...
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So that's two of Gary's most famous sons dead within a week. RIP.

[thundley4]

Malden won a best supporting actor Oscar for his role as Mitch in "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Malden starred in TV's 'The Streets of San Francisco' and made famous the American Express catchphrase 'Don't leave home without it.' He appeared in more than 50 films over his long career.
Karl Malden, one of Hollywood's strongest and most versatile supporting actors, who won an Oscar playing his Broadway-originated role as Mitch in "A Streetcar Named Desire," died today. He was 97.
Malden starred in the 1970s TV series "The Streets of San Francisco" and was the longtime American Express traveler's-check spokesman, warning travelers to not leave home without it. He died of natural causes at his home in Brentwood, said his daughter Mila Doerner.
With his unglamorous mug -- he broke his bulbous nose twice playing sports as a teenager -- the former Indiana steel-mill worker realized early on the course his acting career would take.

"I was so incredibly lucky," Malden once told The Times. "I knew I wasn't a leading man. Take a look at this face." But, he vowed as a young man, he wasn't going to let his looks hamper his ambition to succeed as an actor.

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I remember watching "The Streets of San Francisco" when I was in school.

[thundley4]

And I just posted this in the General forum. Another from "Old Hollywood" gone.

[Airwolf]

He was one of the greats and acted with many of the same. RIP .

[ironhorsedriver]

I really liked him in Patton. I picture Bradley being like that.

[Chris_]

He was good in the "Birdman of Alcatraz" too...RIP.

[Georgia Bulldog]

R.I.P.

[Bluesuiter-Retired]

Doesn't his death make six celebs who croaked in June alone?

[Ptarmigan]

Don't leave home without it.  RIP Karl Malden.

[Chris_]

 
I thought he was dead already....

[SaintLouieWoman]

RIP. Poor man, I guess they won't have a huge funeral in the Staples Center for him.

[Duke Nukum]

I thought he was dead already....

I was reading that it was Malden who lobbied to get Kazan his lifetime achievement oscar.

I occasionally think of his old catchphrase "What will you do?  What will you do?" and wonder if he was still alive.

I loved him as Omar Bradley and in The Streets of San Fransisco.  And late one night in the late '70's or early 80's I caught him in some weird dubbed Italian movie that years later I learned was Dario Argento's Cat of Nine Tails where he plays a blind crossword puzzle editor that solves a murder.