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  Karl Malden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karl Malden (born on March 22, 1912) is an Oscar-winning American actor, known for his bulbous nose and expansive manner who starred in both films, A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, with the late Marlon Brando.
Malden was born to a Serbian father, Petar Sekulovich, who left San Francisco, California in 1910, to move to Eastern Indiana, where he worked as a factory worker in the steel mills, and Minnie Sevarian, a Czech mother, who was a seamstress, as Mladen Sekulovich in Gary, Indiana.
Karl Malden is a past president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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 Karl Malden | Biography (Born 1912)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The son of Yugoslav immigrants, Karl Malden labored in the steel mills of Gary, Indiana before enrolling in Arkansas State Teachers College.
For much of his film career, Malden has been assigned roles that called for excesses of ham; even his Oscar-nominated performance in On the Waterfront (1954) was decidedly "Armour Star" in concept and execution.
Malden was best known to TV fans of the 1970s as Lieutenant Mike Stone, the no-nonsense protagonist of the longrunning cop series The Streets of San Francisco.
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 The Manila Times Internet Edition | ENTERTAINMENT > Karl Malden to receive SAG Lifetime Achievement award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
KARL Malden is talking about his nose: “I was told by an agent once that if I fixed it, I could become a leading man. But I never had the courage.
Malden was born in Chicago to Serbian immigrants.
Malden’s dad was “a frustrated theatrical man” who loved music and was involved in church theater and directing a choir.
www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/feb/23/yehey/enter/20040223ent2.html   (2538 words)

  
 Radio Recall: Karl Malden...On the Radio
But most of Malden's radio work was on The Theater Guild of the Air which John Dunning asserts "..was to Broadway what 'Lux Radio Theater' was to Hollywood: an 80 minute package of prestige drama".
Malden also says he felt much more comfortable broadcasting from a theater since he was never completely "at home" in the radio studio.
Malden recounts that Swenson had such a heavy radio schedule that he had an assistant who attended the rehearsals for him and marked his script.
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 Karl Malden Trivia - Karl Malden Facts - Karl Malden Notes
Karl has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that is located at 6231 Hollywood Blvd. He received it for his work in Motion Pictures.
Karl's mother was Czech and his father was Serbian.
Karl Malden did not learn how to speak English until he was in kindergarten.
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 Karl Malden - Best Supporting Actor: MovieActors.com
Karl Malden won his Supporting Oscar for playing the would be suitor, Harold Miller, in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.
Karl Malden was born in Indiana of Yugoslavian ancestry.
Karl Malden worked in a steel mill until the mid thirties, when fed up with working manual labor, Malden left and went to drama school and then headed for New York.
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Karl Malden was born to a Czech mother and a Serbian father in Chicago as Mladen Sekulovich, on March 22, 1912.
Karl Malden did not speak English until he was in kindergarten.
Karl rapidly became involved with the Group Theater, an organization of actors and directors who were changing the face of theater, where he attracted the attention of director Elia Kazan.
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 Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com
Malden's last trek to Indiana was in 2001, when he was awarded an honorary degree during the May commencement ceremony at Valparaiso University.
Malden is just as familiar to many for his commercial endorsements as he is for movie roles.
Malden of this honor was one of the most moving and joyous tasks of my presidency.
www.thetimesonline.com /articles/2004/02/16/features/seniors/40f769727cfe8a5086256e3900506db3.txt   (1132 words)

  
 Karl Malden News
Karl Malden, the gruff, fatherly character actor who won an Academy Award for "A Streetcar Named Desire," will receive a special honor from the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut for his lifetime of...
Indiana native Karl Malden recalls Brando as champion of the underdog
Indiana native Karl Malden, who starred with Marlon Brando in stage and screen versions of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," says costarring with him was a riveting - and unpredictable - experience.
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 Boston.com / A&E / Celebrity news / Karl Malden earns Cowboy & Western honors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Actor Karl Malden, who won an Oscar for his performance in the 1951 film "A Streetcar Named Desire," has earned another honor for his portrayals in Westerns.
Malden, 93, was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers on Saturday night at the Western Heritage Awards.
Malden was nominated for an Oscar in another Brando film, "On the Waterfront," and for an Emmy for his role as a detective in TV series "The Streets of San Francisco."
www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2005/04/18/karl_malden_earns_cowboy__western_honors   (339 words)

  
 The Streets of San Francisco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Karl and Michael will probably always be one of the greatest tv acting duos of all time, and this is coming from a girl who wasn't born until 10 years after the show premiered.
Karl Malden was/is a great actor of Yugoslavian decent and with a young Michael Douglas as a partner, they just hit it off.
Karl Malden was great as Mike Stone, the tough, chili dog eating cop, as was a young Michael Douglas as the hip Steve Keller.
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 CTV.ca - Actor Karl Malden to receive lifetime award- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Malden won an Emmy for the 1985 miniseries Fatal Vision, and he was nominated for Emmys four straight years for his 1970s police drama The Streets of San Francisco.
From 1989 to 1991, Malden was president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and served on its board from 1984-92 and 1994-99.
Malden also served on the actors guild board from 1963-72.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Actors union honors Karl Malden with lifetime achievement award
Malden, who turns 92 in March, is a union member from way back.
The SAG award was presented by Michael Douglas, Malden's co-star in the 1970s detective series "The Streets of San Francisco." Douglas received his own career achievement award at the recent Golden Globes, and Malden was there to support him.
Malden served on the SAG board of directors from 1963-72.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20040222-1910-ca-film-sagawards-malden.html   (496 words)

  
 | SAG Awards Official Web Site |
Malden’s association with the Academy was to deepen throughout the years.
Malden served on the Board of Directors of Screen Actors Guild for three consecutive terms from 1963 to 1972.
Malden was honored by the County of Los Angeles for his professional accomplishments in 1990 and by the University of Judaism Committee on Humanitarianism in 2000.
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 FilmStew.com • SAG Fetes Malden
The Screen Actors Guild has announced that Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden will be honored as the 40th recipient of the Guild's Life Achievement Award for "career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment." Malden will be presented the award during the 10th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony, to be held on Sunday, February 22, 2004.
Malden took home the Oscar in 1951 for his supporting role in A Streetcar Named Desire, a role which he had originated on Broadway.
Malden served on the SAG board of directors for three consecutive terms, from 1963 through 1972, and also held posts of the Academy of Motion Pictures board of governors from 1984-92 and again from 1994 through 1999.
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 Biography for Karl Malden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Malden's own unforgettable face was shortly in the media when he made his stage debut in 1937.
Malden found his greatest fame, however, in the early 1970s on the small screen, as Det. Mike Stone in the hit series "The Streets of San Francisco" (1972), co-starring with future movie star Michael Douglas.
Malden defended both Kazan and the award, arguing that Kazan's artistic achievements outshone any shame attached to Kazan's naming names before the Congressional committee investigating Communists in Hollywood.
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 Karl Malden to receive Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award - Unofficial Steven Seagal Forums
Karl Malden's story is not just the story of a great and courageous acting career, it is also the story of a great and courageous life.
Malden's was a journey that took him from the steel mill to centerstage in the golden era of Broadway and to screen performances that would earn him an Oscar and a place in our memories as one of the greatest actors of the last century.
Malden spoke little English until he began school, and his accent was something that seemed to isolate him from others.
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 Malden on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Michael Wigglesworth was minister in Malden for many years, and Adoniram Judson was born there.
U.S. Congress Awards Malden Mills Major Military Contracts for 2005; Polartec(R) Fabrics and Electronic Textile R&D Funded in 2005 DOD Bill.
Malden Mills to Receive $20 Million in Funding.
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 Zap2it.com - Movie news - Karl Malden Named to Pick up Pickford Award
As one of the most acclaimed actors in the industry, Malden will be given the honor by the International Press Academy at the sixth annual awards gala, to be held Jan. 19.
Malden's name conjures up his defiantly non-matinee looks, from his wayward nasal passages, to those warm and expressive eyes to that distinct voice that sounds like he gargles with kitty litter every morning.
The lifetime achievement of Malden's illustrious career came to a peak in 1988 when he was voted President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a title he held for five years.
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 Actors union honors Karl Malden with lifetime achievement award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Seven decades after he left a steady income in the steel mills of Gary, Ind., to try acting, Karl Malden was honored by his colleagues Sunday for a lifetime of memorable roles in film and television.
In the 1930s, Malden could only put $300 toward the $900 tuition at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, where the director encouraged him to attend for three months and, if he didn't belong, he'd be told.
Malden won a supporting actor Oscar in 1951 for "A Streetcar Named Desire," appearing opposite Marlon Brando.
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 Fametracker :: Blue Moons :: Inside the Hollywood Star Chamber 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Major events and crucial policies that might have seemed, on their surface, to be shaped by the will of the people have turned out, in reality, to be crafted by cabals of shadowy men, driven by their own dark purposes.
To the contrary, the Oscars are decided by five clones of Karl Malden, who meet secretly once a year in a bunker buried deep beneath the Hollywood sign.
Malden #2: It's a little late for that, Number 4 -- Cold Mountain was hardly nominated for anything.
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 IGN: The Stax Report Salutes Karl Malden
Karl Malden co-stars as General Omar Bradley, the voice of reason.
Karl Malden co-stars as a prison warden, Telly Savalas as a fellow inmate, Thelma Ritter as Stroud's mother, and Edmond O'Brien as a reporter.
Cotton gin owner Archie Lee Meighan (Karl Malden) is married to the title character (Carroll Baker), a thumb-sucking ingenue who refuses to consumate their marriage until she's twenty.
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 Amazon.com: When Do I Start?: A Memoir: Books: Karl Malden,Carla Malden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
For younger readers, Malden is known as the star of The Streets of San Francisco and American Express commercials; but many will remember him for his role as Mitch in the original production of A Streetcar Named Desire and his many theatrical accomplishments.
Karl Malden's autobiography is, in addition to being the fascinating chronicle of an all-American life, a veritable between-the-covers film festival: It overflows with intriguing anecdotes--marvelous, revelatory tales of the amazing array of actors, writers, directors, and other assorted characters whose lives have intersected with Malden's over the course of his truly impressive career.
I suspect that even people who've never heard of Karl Malden (can such exist?) will like his book--and I know that everyone who reads it will want to sit right down in front of the TV with a big bowl of popcorn to watch all the videos of Malden's many marvelous films.
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 SAG lifetime award goes to Karl Malden
The 2003 Life Achievement Award will be presented to Malden at the 10th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will premier on Turner Network Television on Feb. 22, 2004.
"In a career spanning six decades, Karl Malden has superbly achieved the goal of every actor -- to bring an extraordinarily rich range of iconic characters to the screen and stage," said SAG President Melissa Gilbert.
Malden won his first Oscar in 1951 for his supporting performance as Blanche du Bois' suitor, Mitch, in "A Streetcar Named Desire," and he won his second in 1954 for his performance as crusading priest Father Barry in "On the Waterfront."
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Veteran star Karl Malden honoured
Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden, 92, has received the Monte Cristo Award for his long stage career.
Malden, who won an Oscar in 1952 for A Streetcar Named Desire, got the honour in Beverly Hills, US, on Thursday.
Malden was one of the biggest stars of the "golden age" of Broadway, rising to fame in the 1930s before going on to star in films such as On the Waterfront, Birdman of Alcatraz and Patton.
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