Karl Malden Overview:

Legendary character actor, Karl Malden, was born Mladen George Sekulovich on Mar 22, 1912 in Chicago, IL. Malden died at the age of 97 on Jul 1, 2009 in Brentwood, Los Angeles and was laid to rest in Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA.

MINI BIO:

Plum-nosed, rasp-voiced, distinctive and likeable American actor whose receding dark hair was sometimes in latter years covered by a toupee. Used in supporting roles by Fox in their realist thrillers of the late 1940s, but in a variety of leading roles after an Academy Award (best supporting actor) for A Streetcar Named Desire. From 1972 to 1977 he became entrenched in a very popular TV crime series The Streets of San Francisco. Additional Oscar nomination for On the Waterfront. Of Yugoslav parentage, he was president of the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1989 to 1993.

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HONORS and AWARDS:

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Karl Malden was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning one for Best Supporting Actor for A Streetcar Named Desire (as Mitch) in 1951.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1951Best Supporting ActorA Streetcar Named Desire (1951)MitchWon
1954Best Supporting ActorOn the Waterfront (1954)Father BarryNominated
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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures. In addition, Malden was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum .

BlogHub Articles:

March Madness #28:

By Kat_Selby on Mar 27, 2018 From All Good Things

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On Blu-ray: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell and in The Hanging Tree (1959)

By KC on Feb 15, 2018 From Classic Movies

As Gary Cooper neared the end of his career he appeared tired, ill, and not quite himself due to a facelift that might not have turned out the way he’d hoped. While he no longer had the bashful, baby-giraffe-lashed sex appeal of his youth though, he was still magnetic. He aroused different emo... Read full article


'Til Death Do Us Part ~ and Mona Greenburg

By Google profile on Jun 21, 2012 From Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. and Mona Greenburg Married 70 years Malden and Greenburg met at the Chicago's Goodman Theater where they were both scholarship students. They had one of the longest ... Read full article


God Speed (1912-2009)

By Google profile on Jul 2, 2009 From Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. My heart hurts. One of my favorite actors passed on yesterday. To me, made every film he was in better just for being in it. He was a great character actor who exc... Read full article


, 1912-2009

By KC on Jul 1, 2009 From Classic Movies

Goodbye to , a deeply respected and respectable actor who had a legendary career on the silver screen, television and the stage. A whole generation knew him as the long-time pitchman for American Express, but he started his career in New York, onstage. Though he had a small role in They K... Read full article


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Karl Malden Quotes:

Terry: If I spill, my life ain't worth a nickel.
Father Barry: And how much is your soul worth if you don't?


Reverend Ford: We looked for the good in them, and we found it, didn't we?


Archie Lee Meighan: Is that what they call a Mona Lisa smile you got on your puss?


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His family moved to Gary, Indiana, when he was 5.

Was also good friends with the late Telly Savalas.

At the urging of Elia Kazan, he change his name from Mladen Sekulovich to Karl Malden, taking his maternal grandfather's given name for his first name, and switching a couple of letters of his own first name for his last name. Malden remained a strong friend of Kazan's after the famed director was chastised by the Hollywood community for naming names before the House of Un-American Activities Committee in 1952. He strongly supported Kazan's controversial "lifetime achievement" Oscar honor, claiming that politics should have no place when it comes to awarding artistic merit.

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