Karl Malden dies

[kelly5078]

Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_en_mo/us_obit_malden)One of the great character actors.

[CalMeacham]

Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_en_mo/us_obit_malden)One of the great character actors.

Dammit! This has to stop! Enough famous actors dying already.



I had no idea he was that old!

[Nars Glinley]

I had no idea he was that old!

I had no idea he was still alive. "The Streets of San Francisco" was quite some time ago and he didn't exactly look like a spring chicken then.

RIP Lt. Stone.

[Sir T-Cups]

Dammit! This has to stop! Enough famous actors dying already.

Ok this one isn't THAT bad.

Dude was 97.

[jayjay]

The nose has flown! I wonder if he took his American Express card?

RIP Herbie!

[aldiboronti]

Ah shit, one of my all-time favorite actors. Definitely one of the two or three greatest character actors of the 20th century. I saw him in Cincinnatti Kid just last week.

Rest well, Karl, while we have your movies you'll always be alive for us.

[joebuck20]

Well, this should put an end to the media circus surrounding the death of Billy Mays.

[Johnny L.A.]

I wonder if he took his American Express card?

That's exactly what I was going to post, dammit!

[KneadToKnow]

The nose has flown! I wonder if he took his American Express card?

No, that's just when you're leaving home. He's going home.

[Hakuna Matata]

I am more amazed that his wife is still alive and that they just celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary last December.

RIP Karl

[Markxxx]

I know he was 97 but it must make him mad that he missed 100.

From Wikipedia:

On December 18, 1938, Malden married Mona Greenberg, who survives him. Their marriage was one of the longest in Hollywood's history.

Wow 70 1/2 years with the same woman.

[ralph124c]

I will always remember his fine job as th courageous priest in "On The Wterfront.
Karl, say hello to Marlon and Martin, and have a drink with Elia! There's gonna be a big party in Heaven, tonight!;)

[GIGObuster]

RIP And thanks for the AQMP* memories.







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[Heavy voice]
A Queen Martin Production.
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F0wlfmxKdU)

[Slithy Tove]

I wonder if he took his American Express card?



similar to his gravedigger's shovel: "Never heave loam without it."

[Mehitabel]

Awww, he was one of the most versatile guys around. Most of my fave actors are character actors; wish I could have seen him onstage. I'll never forget ON THE WATERFRONT; found him more interesting to watch than Marlon.

And I've discovered a Hollywood marriage longer lasting than Jane Wyatt's, whose husband Edgar died in 2000 one day before their 65th anniversary.

[KneadToKnow]

Wow. He got married before either of my parents was born. Before one of them was even conceived.

[Duckster]

In other news, drug manufacturers of nasal sprays took a beating on the stock market today ...

[Ike Witt]

similar to his gravedigger's shovel: "Never heave loam without it."

::Golf clap::

[enomaj]

This reminds of the time I was buying a book by someone who had just died.

Cashier #1 - Hey, didn't this guy just die recently.
Me - Yeah, I think so.
Cashier #1 - Man, a lot of people died this year.
Cashier #2 - Duh!

::laughter::

Cashier #1 - I mean a lot of famous people died this year.
Cashier #2 - Duh!

[KGS]

You know, after Billy Mays died, I was thinking we were coming up on another celebrity trifecta...I wonder who'll be next?

[teela brown]

I loved him in A Streetcar Named Desire and Patton, too.

[FriarTed]

I had no idea he was still alive. "The Streets of San Francisco" was quite some time ago and he didn't exactly look like a spring chicken then.

RIP Lt. Stone.

Yeah, another one here who thought he'd died years ago!

[Jihi]

Being a young'un I didn't know who Malden was at first, but after a little searching I discovered he was in one of my favorite scenes on The West Wing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX6wOOJy0hk)

At 97 I'm sure God wasn't all that surprised to see him today.

[CalMeacham]

One of the interesting things about him is that, since his rreal name was Mladen Sekulevich, he tried to get his own names into films. Quoth the IMDb:

Born Mladen Sekulovich, he always regretted that in order to become an actor, he had to change his name. Since he was proud of his heritage, when he starred in a movie or on TV, he insisted that a character carry his family name: In On the Waterfront (1954), Fred Gwynne's character was named "Sekulovich".



I'd heard that in Patton, the soldier Malden ( as Omar Bradley) borrows a helmet from after he loses his own was "Mladen".

[omni-not]

Also, second of Gary, Indiana's famous scions to die within a week

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/01/karl.malden.obit/index.html

[Sampiro]

Last time I saw him- a couple of years ago or so on an interview program- I was amazed at how "the same" he looked and sounded as he always had. Apparently his 90s were mostly relatively good years.

Anyway, RIP.

I guess that leaves Gloria Stuart to go for the celebrity centenarian crown. Last I heard she was doing well enough and she turns 99 this week.

[MovieMogul]

I have met very few movie stars in person, but I did meet him (in SF) a few years ago and he was incredibly nice and gracious. RIP.

[Siam Sam]

One of the interesting things about him is that, since his rreal name was Mladen Sekulevich, he tried to get his own names into films.

I'd heard that in Patton, the soldier Malden ( as Omar Bradley) borrows a helmet from after he loses his own was "Mladen".

Ebert (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090701/PEOPLE/907019997) says: "As an in-joke, he succeeded in working the name Mladen Sekulovich into the screenplays of "On the Waterfront," "Birdman of Alcatraz," "Fear Strikes Out," and "Patton," in which he played Gen. Omar Bradley. In the popular TV series "The Streets of San Francisco, his character employed an assistant with the name."

RIP, Mladen. :(

[astorian]

Ebert (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090701/PEOPLE/907019997) says: "As an in-joke, he succeeded in working the name Mladen Sekulovich into the screenplays of "On the Waterfront," "Birdman of Alcatraz," "Fear Strikes Out," and "Patton," in which he played Gen. Omar Bradley. In the popular TV series "The Streets of San Francisco, his character employed an assistant with the name."

RIP, Mladen. :(

In his first scene in "Patton," he says to a private, "HAnd me those field glasses, Sekulavich." He was always finding ways to mention that name.

In the short-lived TV drama "Skag," he played the foreman at a steel mill in Western Pennsylvania. I remember a scene where he was yelling, "Listen, Sekulavich, I've had enough of your goofing off! Get to work!"

[Frostillicus]

Being a young'un I didn't know who Malden was at first, but after a little searching I discovered he was in one of my favorite scenes on The West Wing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX6wOOJy0hk)



Damn it. Now I just spent 30 minutes looking a clips from the West Wing. Thanks a lot.

[Jihi]

Damn it. Now I just spent 30 minutes looking a clips from the West Wing. Thanks a lot.

My pleasure. :D

[Risha]

RIP, Karl.

I suggest that we start titling any new death threads (for the next few weeks) as: "Summer 2009 Celebrity Deathwatch: Name". I know he was 97, but still, this shit is getting ridiculous.

[mhendo]

RIP And thanks for the AQMP* memories.







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[Heavy voice]
A Queen Martin Production. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F0wlfmxKdU)That's Quinn Martin.

Although in San Francisco the error is understandable.

[Siam Sam]

I guess that leaves Gloria Stuart to go for the celebrity centenarian crown. Last I heard she was doing well enough and she turns 99 this week.

And Olivia de Havilland just turned 93 on Wednesday. Go Olivia!

[DMark]

Although I have met many celebrities, my only sighting of Karl Malden was in a large hotel in LA - it was a meeting of the members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science regarding the upcoming Oscar telecast that year (1993? 1994? I forget.). I believe he was head of the organization at that time.

I saw the small sign near a conference room and stood quietly behind the door and was able to listen in a bit. Thought I would get great tidbits to relate to friends - but from my evil eavesdropping, all I heard was tidbits from a very boring meeting about stuff that was so uninteresting that I didn't remember what I heard five minutes later. Karl was going through the agenda and it was pretty much like any meeting - boring - but it was kinda cool to hear him talk.

[cochrane]

Gee, I missed this. I only really remember him from "The Streets of San Francisco (and those AmEx commercials). I remember a young actor named Michael Douglas starting his career on that show. He's achieved some fame of his own.