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Name: Karl Malden  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 22nd March 1912
   
Place of Birth: Gary, Indiana, USA
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Karl Malden portraying Gen. Omar Bradley in the 1970 movie Patton.

Karl Malden (born as Mladen Sekulovich in Chicago March 22, 1912) is an American actor, known for his bulbous nose and expansive manner.

Malden is the son of a Serbian father and a Czech mother. The Sekulovich family roots trace back to the city of Bileća in Herzegovina. At the age of five, Karl and his family moved to Gary, Indiana, where he grew up, after which he moved to New York City. He first appeared as an actor on Broadway in 1937, then did some radio work, before becoming a movie character actor in 1940. His acting career was interrupted by World War II and Malden served as a noncommissioned officer the US 8th Air Force.

Among the many films Malden has acted in are A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), On the Waterfront (1954), Pollyanna (1960), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), How the West Was Won (1962), and Patton (1970) (playing Gen. Omar Bradley). Notable TV appearances include The Streets of San Francisco (1972) (co-starring with a young Michael Douglas), and the film The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989) (as wheelchair-bound senior citizen Leon Klinghoffer).

He famously delivered the line "Don't leave home without it!" in a series of US television commercials for American Express in the 1970s and 1980s.

Karl Malden won the 1951 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for A Streetcar Named Desire and was nominated in 1954 for his supporting tole in On the Waterfront. Karl Malden is a past president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In October of 2003, Malden was named the 40th recipient of the Screen Actors Guild's Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment.

Karl Malden inspired the newsgroup alt.fan.karl-malden.nose.

Malden has been married to Mona Graham since December 18, 1938. Their sixty-six year marriage is the second longest in Hollywood history. Bob Hope's sixty-nine year marriage to Dolores Reade, which lasted from February 19, 1934 until his death on July 27, 2003, is the longest.

Filmography

  • They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
  • Winged Victory (1944)
  • 13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
  • Boomerang! (1947)
  • Kiss of Death (1947)
  • The Gunfighter (1950)
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
  • Halls of Montezuma (1951)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  • The Sellout (1952)
  • Diplomatic Courier (1952)
  • Operation Secret (1952)
  • Ruby Gentry (1952)
  • I Confess (1953)
  • Take the High Ground! (1953)
  • Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
  • On the Waterfront (1954)
  • Baby Doll (1956)
  • Fear Strikes Out (1957)
  • Bombers B-52 (1957)
  • The Hanging Tree (1959) (also director)
  • Pollyanna (1960)
  • The Great Imposter (1961)
  • One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
  • Parrish (1961)
  • All Fall Down (1962)
  • Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
  • How the West Was Won (1962)
  • Gypsy (1962)
  • Come Fly with Me (1963)
  • Dead Ringer (1964)
  • Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
  • The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
  • Nevada Smith (1966)
  • Murderers' Row (1966)
  • Hotel (1967)
  • The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)
  • Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
  • Blue (1968)
  • Hot Millions (1968)
  • Patton (1970)
  • The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
  • Wild Rovers (1971)
  • Summertime Killer (1972)
  • Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
  • Meteor (1979)
  • Twilight Time (1982)
  • The Sting II (1983)
  • Dario Argento's World of Horror (1985) (documentary)
  • Billy Galvin (1986)
  • Nuts (1987)
  • Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) (documentary)

External link

  • Karl Malden at the Internet Movie Database

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