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Karl Malden Dies at Age 97
Source: LA Times
The LA Times reports that Oscar Winning actor Karl Malden has died today at age 97.
One of Hollywood's strongest and most versatile supporting actors, Malden won an Oscar playing his Broadway-originated role as Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire.
Karl Malden with Marlon Brando in 'On the Waterfront'
In a movie career that flourished in the 1950s and '60s, Malden played a variety of roles in more than 50 films, including the sympathetic priest in On the Waterfront, the resentful husband in Baby Doll, the warden in Birdman of Alcatraz, the outlaw-turned-sheriff in One-Eyed Jacks, the pioneer patriarch in "How the West Was Won," Madame Rose's suitor in Gypsy, the card dealer in The Cincinnati Kid and Gen. Omar Bradley in Patton.
He was born Mladen Sekulovich in Chicago on March 22, 1912, the son of an immigrant mother from the nation that later became Czechoslovakia and a Serbian father, who delivered milk for 38 years. Malden spoke little English until after his family moved from their Serbian enclave in Chicago to the steel-mill community of Gary, Ind., when he was 5.
Malden's father was a theater lover who staged Serbian plays in the church and in Serbian patriotic organizations in Gary. As a teenager, Malden played heavies -- usually Turks, complete with a big, black mustache -- in his father's productions.
The LA Times reports that Oscar Winning actor Karl Malden has died today at age 97.
One of Hollywood's strongest and most versatile supporting actors, Malden won an Oscar playing his Broadway-originated role as Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire.
In a movie career that flourished in the 1950s and '60s, Malden played a variety of roles in more than 50 films, including the sympathetic priest in On the Waterfront, the resentful husband in Baby Doll, the warden in Birdman of Alcatraz, the outlaw-turned-sheriff in One-Eyed Jacks, the pioneer patriarch in "How the West Was Won," Madame Rose's suitor in Gypsy, the card dealer in The Cincinnati Kid and Gen. Omar Bradley in Patton.
He was born Mladen Sekulovich in Chicago on March 22, 1912, the son of an immigrant mother from the nation that later became Czechoslovakia and a Serbian father, who delivered milk for 38 years. Malden spoke little English until after his family moved from their Serbian enclave in Chicago to the steel-mill community of Gary, Ind., when he was 5.
Malden's father was a theater lover who staged Serbian plays in the church and in Serbian patriotic organizations in Gary. As a teenager, Malden played heavies -- usually Turks, complete with a big, black mustache -- in his father's productions.
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Comment by Adam Taylor on July 1, 2009 at 5:37pm - Really!? Another one....
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Comment by Megatron rox on July 1, 2009 at 5:30pm - R.I.P.
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Comment by Solid Snake on July 1, 2009 at 5:24pm - This is seriosuly getting scary now.
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Comment by Dr. Detfink on July 1, 2009 at 5:22pm - I am devastated..
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Comment by ghostwriter on July 1, 2009 at 5:10pm - Such a wonderful actor.
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Comment by Mr. Arsenic on July 1, 2009 at 5:08pm - What's with the deaths?!
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Comment by Evolutionary 411 on July 1, 2009 at 4:44pm
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Comment by Evolutionary 411 on July 1, 2009 at 4:41pm
- Streets of San Francisco was a great show with him and a young Michael Douglas.
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Comment by Siriusly Black on July 1, 2009 at 4:38pm - $30 on Morgan freeman
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Comment by Dylan on July 1, 2009 at 4:33pm - (sighs) There goes another one.
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