Karl Malden

Acting · Born 1912-03-22 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography

Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich; Serbian Cyrillic: Младен Секуловић; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an Serbian-American actor. He was primarily a character actor who for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun authenticity to roles in theater, film and television, especially in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) — for which he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor — On the Waterfront (1954), Pollyanna (1960), and One-Eyed Jacks (1961). Malden also played in high-profile Hollywood films such as Baby Doll (1956), The Hanging Tree (1959), How the West Was Won (1962), Gypsy (1962) and Patton (1970). From 1972 to 1977, he portrayed Lt. Mike Stone in the prime time television crime drama The Streets of San Francisco. He was later…

Filmography

• The Cincinnati Kid as Shooter
• Birdman of Alcatraz as Harvey Shoemaker
• On the Waterfront as Father Barry
• A Streetcar Named Desire as Harold Mitchell
• I Confess as Inspector Larrue
• Patton as General Omar N. Bradley
• Pollyanna as Reverend Paul Ford
• How the West Was Won as Zebulon Prescott
• The Gunfighter as Mac
• Where the Sidewalk Ends as Det. Lt. Thomas

TV

• The West Wing as Father Thomas Cavanaugh
• The Streets of San Francisco as Mike Stone
• The Oscars as Self
• Alice in Wonderland as Walrus
• Fatal Vision as Freddy Kassab
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
• Bambi as Self
• Midi Première as Self
• The Lionhearts as (voice)
• The Mike Douglas Show as Self