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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 Bileca 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.
Among the many films Malden has acted in are A Streetcar Named DesireA Streetcar Named Desire is a play by Tennessee Williams describing a culture clash between Blanche DuBois—a pretentious, fading relic of the Old South—and Stanley Kowalski, a rising member of the industrial, inner-city immigrant class. In the first stage (1951), On the WaterfrontOn the Waterfront is a 1954 film about mob violence and corruption on the docks, and became a standard of its kind. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and stars Marlon Brando. The film deals with social issues which paralleled the emerging organization o (1954), PollyannaPollyanna is a novel by Eleanor H. Porter which was first published in 1913 and which has become a classic of children's literature. The book is about a girl, Pollyanna, who goes to live with her Aunt Polly and soon brightens up the town. Pollyanna has be (1960), Birdman of AlcatrazRobert Stroud ( 1890- 1963), known as the Birdman of Alcatraz was a prisoner in Alcatraz who supposedly found solace from solitary confinement in raising and selling birds. Robert Franklin Stroud was born in Seattle, Washington, on January 28, 1890, to El (1962), How the West Was Won (1962), and PattonPatton is a 1970 biographical film which tells the story of General George Patton's commands during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden and Michael Bates. There were several attempts to make the movie, starting in 1953. The Patton family w (1970) (playing Gen. Omar BradleyOmar Nelson Bradley ( February 12, 1893 April 8, 1981) was one of the main US Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during World War II. Bradley was born to a poor family near Clark, Missouri, the son of a schoolteacher. He was educated at loca). Notable TV appearances include The Streets of San FranciscoThe Streets of San Francisco was a television police drama set in San Francisco, California in the 1970s. It starred Karl Malden and Michael Douglas. When Douglas left the show, he was replaced by Richard Hatch. (1972) (co-starring with a young Michael DouglasMichael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Is an American actor and producer. He is the son of actor Kirk Douglas. Douglas starred in the long-running TV series The Streets of San Francisco from 1972 to 1976. Though), and the film The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989) (as wheelchair-bound senior citizen Leon Klinghoffer).
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.
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